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Flying Priest Found Dead in the Atlantic

gizmodo.com — Father de Carli, the flying priest who got lost last April, has been found dead in the middle of the Atlantic. In an effort to raise funds for a local charity organization, De Carli planned to stay for more than 19 hours up in the air using a thousand party balloons, taking a GPS with him to communicate his position in case emergency.

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Goblin, on 07/05/2008, -0/+8"his last contact was a desperate attempt to learn how to use his GPS and communicate his position as the wind took him deep into the Atlantic Ocean.

'I need to contact someone who can teach me how to operate this GPS, so I can give the latitude and longitude coordinates, which is the only way that people on the ground can know where I am.'"

One would expect that would be the sort of thing to work out *before* sending yourself into the unknown attached to balloons.
Goblin, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5Surely "crap, I'm floating out to sea" would also be incentive to, say, pop some of the balloons?
franklymister, on 07/05/2008, -2/+4I understand that it's funny to a lot of people that this man died because of a fatal and preventable mistake.

I also get that everyone's safe behind the anonymity of their keyboards, and likely to be bigger assholes than they would in real life.

That doesn't change the fact that a man died while trying to do something good for others, and that he was probably terrified and died a horrible death. He isn't even buried yet, and sites like Gizmodo are mocking him while his friends and family mourn.

This is one of the most low-class, tasteless things I've ever seen Gizmodo do. Maybe the lowest. In their attempt to be funny, they've reached the level of teenage griefers.
- maxthreepwood, on 07/06/2008, -2/+3Gizmodo is not mocking him. Read the post and the previous one they did. They in fact blame the GPS companies for not making GPS easier to use.
  
  Get a reading and comprehension class, then go ahead and criticize. But don't give the Anti-Gizmodo party line for the sake of it, without even reading the ***** article.
  - franklymister, on 07/06/2008, -1/+2I'd say that a photo of a bunch of party balloons in the water with a comedy catchphrase from Homestar Runner is mocking him.
    
    Try and imagine a similar article about James Kim - people would have been up in arms over it, because James Kim was a beloved figure in the tech world. What makes this man's life so much more trivial, that he should be mocked with "Darwin Award" references and photos with joke captions?
- NaziHatinChimp, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1What a bunch of douches. If those dumbass talk bubbles aren't mocking him, I don't know what is.
  
  I don't think I will be going to Gizmodo anymore. If that was my dad or if he did that for my charity I would go after Gizmodo.
  Talk Bubble over Vader about the new Unleashed trailer = funny
  Talk Bubble over dead priest after he died giving his life for charity = not funny
babychen, on 07/06/2008, -1/+4I read the Gizmodo story. It IS mocking, in parts. Guess making fun of someone dead is par for the course in these parts. Take a good look at the thought bubbles on the images too.

Does not change the fact that this was an avoidable tragedy.
treelovinhippie, on 07/06/2008, -1/+2Where's your god now?
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Flying Priest Found Dead in the Atlantic

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