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Upside down thinking
Sep 19, 2008, 04:31 AM
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Sep 19, 2008, 04:31 AM
American illusionist David Blaine has performed some crazy stunts.
He's been buried alive and frozen in a block of ice.
He once spent 35 hours standing atop a wind-blasted pillar, he stayed underwater for a week, and he lived in a box for 44 days without food or other nutrients.
His latest challenge is to hang upside down from a thin wire for three days, five storeys above the streets of New York.
It's a test of nerve, endurance and dignity - and it seems awfully familiar.
Perhaps Mr Blaine was inspired by the UK's Herbert Crossman, who earlier this week dangled by his feet from a crane in Trafalgar Square.
The appropriately named Mr Crossman, a 60-year-old security company boss, was protesting against the country's tax regime.
The public, he claimed, are 'haemorrhaging money' - and to illustrate his point, cash fell out of his pockets, though into strategically placed buckets below, not into the needy hands of his fellow beleaguered taxpayers.
We're always the right way up at Taxation.co.uk.
He's been buried alive and frozen in a block of ice.
He once spent 35 hours standing atop a wind-blasted pillar, he stayed underwater for a week, and he lived in a box for 44 days without food or other nutrients.
His latest challenge is to hang upside down from a thin wire for three days, five storeys above the streets of New York.
It's a test of nerve, endurance and dignity - and it seems awfully familiar.
Perhaps Mr Blaine was inspired by the UK's Herbert Crossman, who earlier this week dangled by his feet from a crane in Trafalgar Square.
The appropriately named Mr Crossman, a 60-year-old security company boss, was protesting against the country's tax regime.
The public, he claimed, are 'haemorrhaging money' - and to illustrate his point, cash fell out of his pockets, though into strategically placed buckets below, not into the needy hands of his fellow beleaguered taxpayers.
We're always the right way up at Taxation.co.uk.
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