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Andrew-Phillip Goalen (Andrewg)
Member
Username: Andrewg
Post Number: 374
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 4:34 pm: | |
Kinda makes you want to drive by with your hand on the horn button!
Blaines a genius $5mil for this!!!!
Tony have you seen SKY's coverage, you can see the latest by pressing the red button on the remote, please dont ask me why you would want to see a nut in a box! |
djmonk (Davem)
Member
Username: Davem
Post Number: 418
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 2:47 pm: | |
Freak of the week award goes to.......! |
Tim N (Timn88)
Advanced Member
Username: Timn88
Post Number: 3386
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 2:31 pm: | |
Another article sectioin from that news page-
quote:Having been the target of eggs, golf balls and verbal abuse, David Blaine has a new torment - passers-by aiming laser pens into his eyes.
Security officers chased away two teenagers and a man who were intent on using the pens to keep Blaine awake early today.
They were aiming the devices directly into his eyes. A security source said: "They had hidden out at a spot quite far away from where we were standing guard. David was very frightened because in America a red dot means that someone is aiming a gun at you."
Yes, because everyone in america has laser sights on their guns! fools.
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Tim N (Timn88)
Advanced Member
Username: Timn88
Post Number: 3385
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 2:27 pm: | |
David Blaine is a real moron. Theres nothing magical about staying in a hanging box for 40 days with only water and a diary. This is an example of stupidity, not magic. |
'75 308 GT4 (Peter)
Advanced Member
Username: Peter
Post Number: 3099
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 1:10 pm: | |
He also does a levitation trick that's pretty freaky to watch... |
DES (Sickspeed)
Senior Member
Username: Sickspeed
Post Number: 6429
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 12:40 pm: | |
John, Tony - LMAO...! |
John Do'h (Combover)
Junior Member
Username: Combover
Post Number: 96
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 12:33 pm: | |
If Michael Jackson believes in him, so do I!! |
tony hopkins (Tonyh)
Junior Member
Username: Tonyh
Post Number: 61
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 12:32 pm: | |
He must be doing something right...seen his bi-sexual model girlfriend ?? |
DES (Sickspeed)
Senior Member
Username: Sickspeed
Post Number: 6428
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 12:31 pm: | |
Yeah, i've seen some of his stuff before... i guess he makes a good living doing it and it seems a whole lot more interesting than sitting at a DESk, pushing pencils... To each his or her own, i suppose... |
tony hopkins (Tonyh)
Junior Member
Username: Tonyh
Post Number: 60
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 12:29 pm: | |
Yep, that's him. Click on link with my post and type his name in search box for some background info... he's a complete nutter !
Tony |
DES (Sickspeed)
Senior Member
Username: Sickspeed
Post Number: 6426
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 12:25 pm: | |
LOL...! He's also the magician, right...? If so, i saw him on TV biting quarters a few nights ago... |
tony hopkins (Tonyh)
Junior Member
Username: Tonyh
Post Number: 59
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 12:24 pm: | |
"unique" wouldn't be my description ! |
DES (Sickspeed)
Senior Member
Username: Sickspeed
Post Number: 6424
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 12:22 pm: | |
He's certainly a unique individual... |
tony hopkins (Tonyh)
Junior Member
Username: Tonyh
Post Number: 58
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 12:09 pm: | |
DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS ARE FOLLOWING THIS STORY;DAY 10 OF BLAINE IN HIS PERSPEX BOX AND HE'S BEEN BOMBARDED BY EGGS, HAD GOLF BALLS HIT AT HIM, GIRLS FLASHING THEIR TITS AT HIM, AND VARIOUS FAST FOOD VENDORS HAVE BEEN UNDERNEATH HIM WAFTING THE AROMA OF THEIR FOOD AT HIM!
34 DAYS TO GO....WWW.THISISLONDON.COM
Blaine cage attack
By Alexis Akwagyiram and Graham Culliford
16 September 2003
Protesters today tried to attack the cage holding illusionist David Blaine next to the Thames.
Look here too!
� Adam Ant to get Blaine down
� Gallery: Blaine box
In a dramatic raid just before 5am a man scaled a scaffold support tower which is connected to Blaine's perspex cage. Two accomplices had diverted security guards. The protester then tried to cut through the cable supplying water to the illusionist who is in the 10th day of his 44-day endurance challenge.
He also grabbed at other supporting cables and shouted abuse at the shocked magician who was woken by the disturbance. During the security breach the protester shouted: "Go home David, go back to America. We don't want you here, I'm going to rock you."
Attack: the protester pulls a cable attached to Blaine's cage (click image for larger picture)
On the ground, the incident caused frantic scenes as security guards shone a torch in the man's face and tried to persuade him to come down.
Police cars arrived at the scene, as did two ambulances and a pair of fire engines along with a hydraulic ladder.
Today, police said they had arrested the man and were trying to trace his accomplices.
A police spokesman said: "We were called at 4.45am to a man who had climbed onto the water tower near Blaine's box. The Fire Brigade and ourselves were monitoring the situation.
"The man threw water bottles and other objects from the tower and tried to cut through the cord connected to the tower but without success. He came down of his own accord at 5.18am. A man in his forties was arrested for criminal damage and was taken to a south London police station."
The attacker and his accomplices arrived in a white van in a nearby street and while two of them distracted guards, the third used a ladder to scale a fence and make his way towards the water tower.
The repeated tugging of vital mooring ropes caused 30-year-old Blaine's makeshift home to swing violently.
The incident is the most dramatic attempt yet to disrupt Blaine's record attempt. Since he began his stunt he has suffered a barrage of abuse and mockery from people unimpressed by his self-imposed isolation.
Eggs have been thrown and he has been subjected to taunts. Other people have bared their breasts or bottoms, while at one stage he was even the target of a golf ball hit from Tower Bridge. Drums have been used to keep him awake at night and a magazine hired a helicopter to suspend a burger above his box in a move designed to increase his hunger pangs.
But others have been more welcoming, with one member of the audience playing chess on the ground while Blaine relayed his moves to him, and dozens gathering every day to shout their encouragement and pin good luck messages to the security fence.
Today's outburst provoked a groundswell of sympathy for the illusionist from worried onlookers who hurled a volley of abuse at the attacker.
However, a small faction of the crowd encouraged the protester but were quickly silenced by security guards. As yet there is no explanation for how the man, who is thought to have been in his thirties and was dressed in a striped white T-shirt and jeans, managed to reach the scaffolding tower.
Blaine's has 34 days to go until he can leave his cell where he only has a diary and a basic water supply for company.
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