David Blaine - Stunt comes to an end

**PeteD** · Sep 11th, 2003, 01:09 PM

David Blaine has given up his controversial stunt at Tower Bridge in London. He was told that 44 days doing nothing in a box is not going to break the record which is currently held by Emile Heskey at 4 years.

**JPicasso** · Sep 11th, 2003, 01:48 PM

And Emily H. would be.....

**DeadEyes** · Sep 11th, 2003, 02:46 PM

Originally posted by PeteD
David Blaine has given up his controversial stunt at Tower Bridge in London. He was told that 44 days doing nothing in a box is not going to break the record which is currently held by Emile Heskey at 4 years.

**PeteD** · Sep 12th, 2003, 04:07 AM

Originally posted by JPicasso
And Emily H. would be.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...nd/2851539.stm

he doesn't do much in the penalty box

**Bloit** · Sep 12th, 2003, 05:57 AM

did u hear that when two guys started shining laser pens at him he thought it was snipers and freaked out! his security gaurds rugby tackled the two guys to the floor!!

**PeteD** · Sep 12th, 2003, 06:00 AM

Originally posted by Bloit
did u hear that when two guys started shining laser pens at him he thought it was snipers and freaked out! his security gaurds rugby tackled the two guys to the floor!!

LOL!

No I hadn't heard that! I guess you would freak if that happened!

http://www.channel4.com/entertainmen...k1/story8.html

I just hope David hasn’t underestimated the British people’s potential for cynicism and downright nastiness when it comes to daft Americans suspending themselves over our rivers. (Remember when they hanged that monkey in Hartlepool because they thought he was a French spy?)

**yrwyddfa** · Sep 12th, 2003, 10:18 AM

David Blaine has given up his controversial stunt at Tower Bridge in London. He was told that 44 days doing nothing in a box is not going to break the record which is currently held by Emile Heskey at 4 years.

hehehe

**yrwyddfa** · Sep 12th, 2003, 10:19 AM

I generally don't have a problem when I'm in a box

**hellswraith** · Sep 12th, 2003, 10:29 AM

Originally posted by yrwyddfa
I generally don't have a problem when I'm in a box

It is usually what is attached to the box that I can't stand.

**PeteD** · Sep 12th, 2003, 10:41 AM

Originally posted by yrwyddfa
I generally don't have a problem when I'm in a box

That's not what your girlfriend told me!

**MixMaster** · Sep 12th, 2003, 12:35 PM

Originally posted by PeteD
David Blaine has given up his controversial stunt at Tower Bridge in London. He was told that 44 days doing nothing in a box is not going to break the record which is currently held by Emile Heskey at 4 years.

That was one Radio 1 before but they had a funnier one about how he entered into a naughts and crosses competition but his imaginary school friend beat him in the grand final and he got really mad.

There was a documentary on one of the Sky channels many months back about how he did that ice thing. He wasnt in there all the time, supposedly the switch took place when they sprayed water on the ice and it clouded up for a few minutes. I cant remember the exact details but im sure a search on the net would find it.

**Bloit** · Sep 15th, 2003, 07:21 AM

Check out day 5 it is very funny!

http://entertainment.msn.co.uk/blainewatch/

**Wally Pipp** · Sep 15th, 2003, 11:25 AM

Emile doesn't have to do anything with a world class diver next to him. Either he lumbers the balls in the back of the net or the dwarf next to him takes a dive for a dodgy penno

**PeteD** · Sep 24th, 2003, 11:00 AM

http://www.brianmung.com/blainegame.htm

**JPicasso** · Sep 24th, 2003, 11:10 AM

I don't understand the animosity.

He's just a dude, doing stupid stunts.

The English must have absolutly nothing else to worry about.

**PeteD** · Sep 24th, 2003, 11:18 AM

Originally posted by JPicasso
I don't understand the animosity.

He's just a dude, doing stupid stunts.

The English must have absolutly nothing else to worry about.

It's a publicity stunt, and that might be a cool thing to do in the US, but over here that's a pretty dumb thing to do, and he will get grief for doing it. We have a very different way of thinking to you guys. He should have done his research......

Us Brits are a cynical bunch I'm tellin ya!

**yrwyddfa** · Sep 24th, 2003, 11:22 AM

Now if he were doing it for world peace, cure for cancer, or any of the countless good charities out there; it might have been different.

As he isn't, he deserves everything he gets: after all he will invariably get paid for it (TV interview, exclusives etc etc)

**JPicasso** · Sep 24th, 2003, 11:24 AM

interesting take, yrwyddfa

I almost commented that "it's not like he's doing it for something stupid, like world peace."

oceans apart, eh?

**PeteD** · Sep 24th, 2003, 11:36 AM

If he were jumping the Thames on a motorbike or something, then that would gain him respect. Also, if he were doing it for charity, then that would gain him respect too.

I'm sure that if he did this stunt in NY, then the crowds would stand there wooping, shouting 'Go David Go' and 'U.S.A' and waving the stars and stripes

. We are just soooooo different to Americans in that respect. It's got nothing to do with being anti-american, but it's just that we find that sort of behaviour annoying.

**Cander** · Sep 24th, 2003, 11:48 AM

Meanwhile, you have a goofball running around in a super hero costume, removing tire locks.

Of course if it was a Spainish speaking country he was in, he would need a puppet in the box with him. Nothing is more entertaining to spainish speakers than goofy puppets.

**PeteD** · Sep 24th, 2003, 12:00 PM

Originally posted by Cander
Meanwhile, you have a goofball running around in a super hero costume, removing tire locks,

Thats funny though..... (and I think it's supposed to be a bit 'tongue in cheek')

When in the UK, David should stick to doing what he does best.....his card tricks/levitation on the street. That stuff is actually entertaining!

**Cander** · Sep 24th, 2003, 12:08 PM

Problem is, all his tricks have been exposed on TV as to how they were done, and he may not be good enough to come up with new ones.

**Arc** · Sep 24th, 2003, 12:24 PM

Not hadrly all. Some of the simpler ones have, but I've seen him do things that have enver been explained and I've watched everyone of those "magicians exposed" type shows.

And ofcourse he's good enough to come up with new ones.

**Cander** · Sep 24th, 2003, 12:26 PM

I just havent seen him do anything new in a while.

**demotivater** · Sep 24th, 2003, 02:24 PM

I'm sure that if he did this stunt in NY, then the crowds would stand there wooping, shouting 'Go David Go' and 'U.S.A' and waving the stars and stripes .

If he did that here, he'd probably get shot. We don't throw eggs, we throw bullets.

**Shaggy Hiker** · Sep 24th, 2003, 02:59 PM

I'm plenty pissed. He sits in a box for a few days and women are flashing their breasts at him. I've been sitting in a box for years, and that hasn't happened. What do I have to do, hang my office from a cable?

**demotivater** · Sep 24th, 2003, 04:36 PM

What do I have to do, hang my office from a cable?

I've tried that, it doesn't work. Nobody would stand still long enough for me to get the cable around their necks.

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