10-09-2003 00:52									#1
	Where Is Bods? Londoners Hurl Taunts, Eggs at Illusionist Blaine Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

Blaine pelted with eggs
Tue Sep 9, 4:15 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Some Londoners do not want showman David Blaine to succeed in his bid to spend 44 days without food in a glass box suspended from a crane in the centre of the capital.

Since the American began his stunt on Friday he has been pelted with eggs, taunted with the smell of fish and chips and woken up by a man banging a drum.

Police said on Tuesday officers had been called in to deal with one man who was throwing eggs at Blaine's transparent box late on Monday evening.

"The man was given a stern talking to. But he was not arrested," a police spokesman said.

The 30-year-old New Yorker is used to drawing admiring crowds for his other feats in the United States, including being buried alive and encased in a block of ice.

But newspapers said some Londoners were devising ways of breaking the American's spirit, saying they were already bored with his latest challenge.

"We were watching him at home on TV and it was really dull so we thought we would come down and liven things up. I wanted to wake him up," impromptu drummer Shiraz Azam, 21, told London's Evening Standard on Monday.

The stunt is also causing traffic problems with motorists driving across the city's Tower Bridge slowing down to take a look.


Tue Sep 9,12:22 AM ET
David Blaine sits in a glass box suspended near Tower Bridge in central London on Saturday. Some Londoners have hurled abuse and eggs at the American, who hopes to spend 44 days in the box without food. REUTERS/Paul Sanders

	10-09-2003 00:56									#2
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I tell you something, that cage will really smell a bit when it gets opened..

	10-09-2003 01:01									#3
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Blaine is an idiot... I hope it hails, and breaks his glass box. (Bodds = Park)

	10-09-2003 01:02									#4
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Huh? Wot yon bout?

	10-09-2003 01:05									#5
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Did he think that it would be easy? What a Nancy!

	10-09-2003 01:06									#6
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Don't ya know there's vodka in that there bottle? He's cheating.

	10-09-2003 01:18									#7
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He's a smug weirdo, I used to like the half hour street magic stuff he used to do, but I think maybe he's got caught up believing his own BS

	10-09-2003 01:18									#8
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Illusionist. I guess he''ll somehow make himself look like a Grateful Dead logo.

	10-09-2003 01:20									#9
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i hope they leave him up there

	10-09-2003 01:46									#10
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What, he can live 44 days without food but he can't handle someone beating on a drum?

	10-09-2003 01:47									#11
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hopefully this is just the build up to a disaspearing stunt, so one day we wake up and hes gone. And then we don't have to put up with the silly, big headed idiot anymore.

Exile him along with the other arses like David Copperfield.

	10-09-2003 01:50									#12
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Blaine is an idiot. I hope he has to **** in his little cage for 40 days that way he'll smell exactly like the rest of us think of him.

	10-09-2003 01:52									#13
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Wow. Bad vibes.
Poor guy, trying to entertain, and what does it get him ? Abuse.

	10-09-2003 01:53									#14
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I was going to post about how much I hate him, but with everyone else doing the same I almost feel as though I should defend him.

	10-09-2003 01:54									#15
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Seems Slowwhand doesn't hate him, though. All's well.

	10-09-2003 01:59									#16
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I think watching him be buried alive or in a block of ice would be more fun.

I worked at a drive-in movie where a guy did something like this. He ate though. He had it made.

	10-09-2003 02:18									#17
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Sloww, what was that guy proving?
"Look at me I'm, lazy!"
Did he get a speaker?

	10-09-2003 02:21									#18
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If he died in there, nobody would notice for a week until they cut him out again.

Unrelated question: What's the security like around his water supply?

	10-09-2003 02:24									#19
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He had speakers to both big screens.
He had a stereo system and phone.
Anything he wanted to eat.
We snuck women up there. He was divorced later, but I'm just pointing out the fact.

	10-09-2003 02:25									#20
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quote: We snuck women up there. He was divorced later, but I'm just pointing out the fact.

This seems like a really great idea!!! Where do I start?

	10-09-2003 02:59									#21
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quote: Originally posted by The Andy-Man This seems like a really great idea!!! Where do I start?

Get a good lawyer?

	10-09-2003 06:14									#22
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand Illusionist. I guess he''ll somehow make himself look like a Grateful Dead logo.

	10-09-2003 06:45									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Timexwatch Did he think that it would be easy? What a Nancy!

I'm sure he dosen't think 44 days without food is "easy".

He may have overestimated the civility of the Brits.

	10-09-2003 06:47									#24
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quote: Originally posted by The Mad Monk He may have overestimated the civility of the Brits.

Or his popularity.

	10-09-2003 06:48									#25
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quote: Originally posted by The Mad Monk I'm sure he dosen't think 44 days without food is "easy". He may have overestimated the civility of the Brits.

It seems he has.

This is guy is just trying to entertain. If they don't like it, why can't they just ignore it. The people are doing this like are acting more like wild savages then a civilized people.

	10-09-2003 06:49									#26
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Popularity has nothing to do with it. If you don't like him, ignore him.

If you think this is "fun", you should bring the stocks back, or maybe the gallows.

	10-09-2003 06:51									#27
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quote: Originally posted by The Mad Monk If you think this is "fun", you should bring the stocks back, or maybe the gallows.

He's the one who apparently thinks this is "fun". No one else put him there or made him do this.

	10-09-2003 06:53									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Shi Huangdi This is guy is just trying to entertain. If they don't like it, why can't they just ignore it.

What's entertaining about it? He's sitting in a box for 44 days. Ooh, such excitement.

It's hard to ignore the public nuisance he is creating. As the article mentioned, it's creating traffic problems with people rubbernecking. I'd be a little upset about it, too--especially for such a boring stunt.

The authorities who allowed this should be sacked.

	10-09-2003 06:53									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Shi Huangdi This is guy is just trying to entertain. .

but he's not though, is he? He's just dossing in a box

	10-09-2003 06:55									#30
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Insolent people! How dare they attack Americans like that!

BOMB LONDON!!!