Someone has identified the exact moment Britain was at its greatest
Someone has identified the exact moment this proud country of ours was at its greatest.
Who remembers when David Blaine was starving himself in a box for weeks and weeks and someone attached a burger to a remote control helicopter and hovered it in view to torture him? That's when we peaked as a nation, downhill ever since
— Charlie (@charliemfc) January 14, 2018
And by the looks of the responses to this comment, most people agree. Should we ask the Royal Mail if they can do us a set of stamps?
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I remember that. At one point he freaked out because he thought he was going to be assassinated, but it was just somebody’s laser pen. I don’t think he’s been back to the U.K. since
— var = DCotton (@andywalpole) January 16, 2018
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"But most importantly, I’ve learned to appreciate all the simple things in life: a sunrise, a sunset, a smile from a stranger, a smile from a loved one. And I think you all so much. I love you all so much.”
He was quickly put on a stretcher and taken by ambulance to hospital.
— carlos (@takaforo) January 16, 2018
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This excellent stunt was the work of @MartinDaubney
— Will Storr (@wstorr) January 14, 2018
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Haha what a moment. Two weeks into my editorship and it almost got me the sack, as security snapped the RC aerial. The copter crashed into a car park, narrowly missing a Ford Sierra. It would’ve killed a man!
— Martin Daubney (@MartinDaubney) January 15, 2018
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I think the best idea I had was having several 'decoy' people with remote controls confusing the security.
— Pete Cashmore, founder of Mashable (@TweetCashmore) January 15, 2018
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A certain @HenryNaylorUK lobbed a Full English up to Mr Blaine. Now a serious playwright @ThePlayAngel , he was already showing his humanitarian side back then. Got in trouble with the police too. It takes a bit more than throwing a fried egg to get the Met interested these days.
— Andy Rushton (@BatUntilTea) January 16, 2018
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My mate and I got moved along by the police (harshly in my opinion) for drunkly singing at him on the way home from the pub “David, show us a trick, David David show us a trick” and then boooooing him.
— PQ (@MrPQ) January 16, 2018
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the only decent use of drone like technology in history
— Ian Wright (@ihwright) January 16, 2018
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Didn't someone get a barbeque going underneath as well?
— Tony Childs (@tfchilds) January 16, 2018
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Lol, I think they did, I remember Paul McCartney turning up pissed calling him a cvnt
— Eagles Kev (@eagleskev) January 16, 2018
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I went down to see him there one evening. Great atmosphere, everyone was taking the piss big time. Made me proud to be British.
— BeatCityTone (@BeatCityTone) January 15, 2018
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It later provoked a hugely entertaining phase of people turning up and hurling sausages up at his perspex prison. I remember taking my boy up to watch.
— Quiet Storm (@stormofquiet) January 15, 2018
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Ah yes… good times!
— Emma Smith (@vlbemma) January 15, 2018
What a time it was to be alive.
Was that at Tower Bridge
— Dodgy Dave (@davidelson_) January 14, 2018
Yeah, someone pinged a load of golf balls at him as well https://t.co/5i18fqcKCq
— Charlie (@charliemfc) January 14, 2018
