Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Bursting the balloon
All hope of finding a live Father Di Carli, the priest who went aloft on a thousand helium-filled party balloons to raise money for a trucker's prayer stop in South America, has been dashed with the discovery of what appears to be his body 683 miles out to sea in the Atlantic Ocean. His reported last words, by satellite phone, soon after he took off on April 20 and was caught in gusting winds, were a plea for help in learning how to work the GPS he had taken with him in case of emergency. GPS would probably stand for Global Positioning Systerm - not God Positioning System as seemed to be indicated in the Wired article I read this morning.
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One would wonder what use a GPS would be when one is suspended a few kilometres in the air at the whim of mariah and not a steering wheel in sight. I would think his last words would more likely be...."what on earth did I do with that dart gun"?
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