Oh dear, we’re not taking him seriously
It just gets better and better—it started with David “Talks-Slowly-Because-He’s-Mysterious” Blaine’s transparent box being pelted with eggs, but now he’s had to bring in extra security because of all the abuse he’s received. This includes:
- People driving golf balls at him from a nearby car park,
- A full English breakfast being thrown at him,
- 2 fireworks being shot at him,
- Chef Aldo Zilli cooking burgers, marinated chicken and sausages below him,
- A remote-controlled model helicopter carrying burgers and chips being flown round and round him (pictured above).
Still, at least the tabloids have been trying to relieve Blaine’s boredom:
One newspaper sent in three pretty models who stripped naked in full view of Mr Blaine, whose transparent cage 2.1m deep, 2.1m long and 0.9m wide is suspended from a giant crane.
Not to be outdone, a rival publication is planning to hoist a similar box with a naked, gyrating female dancer inside to tease the bachelor illusionist.
But even this wasn’t enough to cheer up the Magic Yank:
“If people don’t stop hurling things and taunting me, I will consider coming down,” he said.
Now it’s not often I’m proud to be British nowadays, but on this occassion I think there is a certain national pride at stake. America may lap up this sort of thing, but it takes more than a pretentious, narcissistic bloke crapping in a nappy inside a box for 44 days to impress us.
- Shoot first, ask questions never
- The Pixies set to reform
