Man Harrasses David Blaine

I imagine Blaine has well calculated how to survive in the box. I doubt that he figured on the animosity attending his stunt. The ridiculous displays by the public are symptoms of what some Brits see as the "yobbo-ism" taking over British culture. Rude behavior directed at someone doing something is usually an expression of dissatisfaction with one's own life of unaccomplishment. I'm not sure I'd expect to pay the police extra to protect me from the public's boorish behavior. It seems to me that's their basic job.
 
Lemastre said:
I imagine Blaine has well calculated how to survive in the box. I doubt that he figured on the animosity attending his stunt. The ridiculous displays by the public are symptoms of what some Brits see as the "yobbo-ism" taking over British culture. Rude behavior directed at someone doing something is usually an expression of dissatisfaction with one's own life of unaccomplishment. I'm not sure I'd expect to pay the police extra to protect me from the public's boorish behavior. It seems to me that's their basic job.
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Au contraire, this is just an illustration of how we hate someone embarking on a campaign of shameless attention grabbing and self agrandisment.

Whats the point in this stunt? Only to draw attention to himself. If you want to put yourself on show like this before the good people of London, be prepared for the barrage of rotten tomotoes coming your way.

Its always been that way in this great and ancient city. And I hope it always will be.

More to the point: What does he do with all his crappy nappies (dypers? to you), what about the salt he loses? You can go without food for weeks, but without a salt supplement you will die fairly quickly. Its a con, Blaine and simple.
 
Jon_in_london said:

Its a con, Blaine and simple.
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It's a magic trick. Think "David Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty disappear". Same deal, this one just takes a little longer.
 
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Blaine is an entertainer, stunts is what he does for a living. Just like Houdini, Copperfield, etc.

I see nothing wrong with it, it is their profession, and I really do not see how Blaine is infringing on anyone's rights.

As far as the bizarre reaction of some of the public, this is probably jealousy, attention getting, or just plain idiots. But I think this may work to his benefit by keeping him in the news, etc.

I am curious as to how he manages stuff though, and what physical effects it may have on him.

Go David!
 
Joshua Korosi said:


It's a magic trick. Think "David Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty disappear". Same deal, this one just takes a little longer.
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And it's not as entertaining.
 
Am I the only person who thinks the trick is lame?

One of the things about these sorts of tricks that gets to me is the element of time. 44 days is just too long. If you want my attention, light the box on fire with him inside in a strait jacket.

There isn't much drama to this trick.
 
I agree - it's as "interesting" as sending him to jail for 44 days. What would be MORE interesting would be to leave him out there 3 months...
 
thaiboxerken said:


Looks like ol' Blaine is getting attention from someone. I wonder what the point of his 44 day trick is. Where does he excrete his human waste to? He doesn't get to eat but I'm sure he has to drink.
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He has an outgoing tube in which he pisses into.
 
Jon_in_london said:


Au contraire, this is just an illustration of how we hate someone embarking on a campaign of shameless attention grabbing and self agrandisment.

Whats the point in this stunt? Only to draw attention to himself. If you want to put yourself on show like this before the good people of London, be prepared for the barrage of rotten tomotoes coming your way.

Its always been that way in this great and ancient city. And I hope it always will be.
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Your response apparently lays out the manifesto of the yobbo-ism I allude to. I find that demonstrations against "shameless attention-grabbing" are usually more shameless and attention-grabbing than the original act itself. Of course, any society has folks who can manage no higher form of self-expression than flailing about and roaring incoherently. When I find this tendency among reasonably literate Englishmen, I try to cut them a little slack because I figure it stems from their frustration as victims of a failing public educational system and economy, which increasingly prepare people to do nothing useful and then offer them little more than nothing as occupations. We have the same problems in the U.S. But even when stressed, people need not waste time and energy trying to disturb others who aren't infringing on their space at all. A person of sophistication and point might note that Mr Blaine is in a box and then go on to more profitable or constructive activities than clambering up into a building and launching paint balls. I mean, I've always thought that part of living in a "great and ancient city" is learning to appreciate others and their eccentricities. You seem to be saying that London's greatness stems from having its citizens go about assaulting persons engaged in legal occupations. Next time I visit London, may I come to your place of work, assuming you have one, or accost you in the street and pelt you with odds and ends because it offends me to see someone earning a living? I hope not.
 
I suppose before the 44 days are up, something "dramatic" will happen.

I don't know, like the box breaking open and him falling into the Thames or some other trick...
 
Apparently Craig Kilborn had a few humorous jokes at the expense of Blaine in a monologue not long ago.

In “magic bust” news… In London, David Blaine has started his six weeks suspended over the Thames River in a glass box with only water… What an amazing trick – it makes my interest in magic disappear!

Blaine will spend 44 days inside the box. Then, for his next stunt, he’ll try to go a whole six months without being a publicity whore.

I have a great idea for a prank: when he comes out, let’s act really nonchalant and go, “We forgot you were in there, because Lance Burton was doing so much cool ‘real magic.’ Too bad you missed it.”

Experts say that if Blaine survives this stunt, we’ll just have to try something else.
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Hi corplinx. I don't think it is a trick. I think his objective is to create the mystique that he is not a normal human. Maybe not human at all. I mean...the guy levitated. The witnesses said, "....(stutter, stutter)...he ain....he ain't normal...this ain't right." He even got Deon sanders to run away, in disbelief to what Deon was seeing. Who can throw cards at a store front window and make someone elses chosen card be the only one to stick to the glass out of a deck of cards? Or, shuffle a deck out onto a table, cover it with a table cloth, and wildly stab through the table cloth and skewer the correct card, and ONLY that card?


(Stutter...stutter)He ain....he ain't normal. He's God in the flesh!
 
For those who want to criticize Mr. Blaine, I remind you that Mr. Randi himself was prone to trying to break records.
 
Hi corplinx. I don't think it is a trick. I think his objective is to create the mystique that he is not a normal human. Maybe not human at all.

Which is an illusion, a trick. He is still a human, and it's humanly possible to live for 44 days without food.

I mean...the guy levitated. The witnesses said, "....(stutter, stutter)...he ain....he ain't normal...this ain't right." He even got Deon sanders to run away, in disbelief to what Deon was seeing.

Which is an illusion, a trick. Is Deon Sanders and expert on such matters? LOL. Blain's levitation trick is just that, a trick.

Who can throw cards at a store front window and make someone elses chosen card be the only one to stick to the glass out of a deck of cards?

Magicians.


Or, shuffle a deck out onto a table, cover it with a table cloth, and wildly stab through the table cloth and skewer the correct card, and ONLY that card?

A magician.


(Stutter...stutter)He ain....he ain't normal. He's God in the flesh!

I truly hope you're just joking in your entire post. If you are sincere in the post , seek some therapy.
 
Tricky said:
For those who want to criticize Mr. Blaine, I remind you that Mr. Randi himself was prone to trying to break records.
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That was an illusion. I think David's Blain's 44 day stunt is not a trick. One involves deception, the other doesn't. There is no trickery needed in Blain's stunt.
 
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