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(Nottingham Post)   Magician to drive 12 miles blindfolded   (thisisnottingham.co.uk) divider line 79
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2003-09-20 08:51:42 AM
That's nothing. Let's see him do the Iditarod blindfolded.
 
2003-09-20 10:25:15 AM
Here's hoping he gets David Blaine and runs him down.
 
2003-09-20 10:48:49 AM
I'll drink to that.
 
2003-09-20 11:25:10 AM
Laser pointers ready....
 
2003-09-20 11:27:49 AM
Note to self: Stay off road.
 
2003-09-20 11:28:46 AM
the Amazing Randi has been doing that trick for years.
 
2003-09-20 11:30:55 AM
What's magical about that?
 
2003-09-20 11:32:31 AM
It's the virus of David Blaine. After infection people think that magic is doing a stupid stunt.
 
2003-09-20 11:32:33 AM
Big deal. I used to drive home blind every Saturday night.
 
2003-09-20 11:32:36 AM
Ted Kennedy tried this years ago. Almost pulled it off too.
 
2003-09-20 11:32:45 AM
Come for the pie, stay for the Strizl Stuck.
 
2003-09-20 11:33:19 AM
Stevie Wonder will be his passenger.
 
2003-09-20 11:34:33 AM
The question in my mind is, "why the Formula 1 driver sitting next to him?" Which one is in training?

Formula 1 becomes most expensive demolition derby
Reuters
 
2003-09-20 11:34:34 AM
God must be his co-pilot
 
2003-09-20 11:35:00 AM


hope he's not going near any farmer's markets ...


I'd like a window seat, please ...

 
2003-09-20 11:35:16 AM
Germany, right? steering wheel on the right side of the car, so that means the passenger side is on the left. Good, the racecar dude passenger can bail out two seconds into the drive. Oh, and I think anybody could drive that if they had been practicing three times a day for six farking months!!!!
 
2003-09-20 11:35:37 AM
couldn't be any worse than an asian woman driver talking on a cellphone.

/did I miss any stereotypes?
 
2003-09-20 11:38:49 AM
jpe_dty: You forgot the bubble-headed blonde soccer Mom driving the SUV with a cell phone pressed to one ear, while doing her make-up, and screaming at the kids in the back seat.

/hates SUV's (unless you REALLY go off road or live in snow)
 
2003-09-20 11:39:07 AM
Magician to drive 12 miles blindfolded
Better Headline: Idiot to drive 12 miles blindfolded
 
2003-09-20 11:40:05 AM
Who's the bigger dumbass? The guy driving blindfolded or the guy who volunteers to ride with him?
 
2003-09-20 11:40:05 AM
Or so the Germans would have us believe.
 
2003-09-20 11:44:04 AM
Unless he's got -


It's gonna be -
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2003-09-20 11:47:00 AM
Er....here we go again..

Unless he's driving this



It's gonna be

 
2003-09-20 11:47:39 AM
Whats with all these "magicians" doing stuff that isn't even magician-like?
 
2003-09-20 11:48:10 AM
Headline should read: "Magician to Commit Suicide On Mountain Road, Taking Race Car Driving With Him"
 
2003-09-20 11:48:59 AM
Er, that's "Driver" not "Driving"
 
2003-09-20 11:49:34 AM
hershy799 Actually the Germans drive on the right.
 
2003-09-20 11:51:12 AM
David Baine did something similar to this. he climbed some industrial structure blindfolded, proving that he could do it, and he did.
 
2003-09-20 11:52:45 AM
David Baine did something similar to this. he climbed some industrial structure blindfolded, proving that he could do it, and he did.

I think I speak for everyone when I say "David Blane can suck my left [insert body part]."
 
2003-09-20 11:53:48 AM
Dang it, it's Baine.

/praying for that edit or preview button
 
2003-09-20 11:54:48 AM
Baine, Blane, Blaine, Boobies...

Oh fark it, I can't win
 
2003-09-20 11:55:31 AM




Now that's a Magician.
 
2003-09-20 11:55:43 AM
Dumbass, just take the farking buss!
 
2003-09-20 11:56:03 AM
Think he's really just transporting a few billion dollars like my man Crockett.
 
2003-09-20 11:58:14 AM
I hope this "magician" loses control of the car. Its a mountain road, right? So they will be travelling along the side of the mountain? with one railing between the road and certain death?

sterosaurs: I thought only in America do people drive on the right side of the road. Are you sure?
 
HPZ [TotalFark]
2003-09-20 12:00:52 PM
When did the definition of "magician" change from "person who can do unbelievable things" to "person that takes the time to learn how to do pointless things?"
 
2003-09-20 12:03:53 PM
I thought only in America do people drive on the right side of the road. Are you sure?

Not to but in, but last I knew only Britian and Austrailia drive on the left, everyone else is like us.
 
2003-09-20 12:07:00 PM
Linewalker's right. Well, there may be a couple other countries that drive on the left but they're definitely in the minority.
 
2003-09-20 12:11:15 PM
US, Canada & Mexico: Right side Drive

Great Brittan & Australia: Left side drive

Italy: Any lane, any time, no brakes

/got nuthin
 
2003-09-20 12:13:42 PM
aaaabra aaaaaabra cadabraaaaa, I wanna reach out and crash ya
 
2003-09-20 12:17:28 PM
Oh Jesus...is it gonna be this guy again...
 
2003-09-20 12:19:54 PM
You also got to give the French some credit...they may surrender to everything but in heavy trafic they 0Wn y0o.
Last survey I read French were said to be the worst.drivers.ever
 
2003-09-20 12:20:03 PM
They drive on the left in Japan.
In Malta they drive on the left too, but this is most likely a legacy of British rule.
If you kept to the left in olden times [probably on your horse] your sword-wielding right hand was ready to attack!
This is why spiral staircases go round the way they do in old castles [sort of always turning right] the defenders up above have the sword-hand advantage over attackers coming up the stairs.
 
2003-09-20 12:21:42 PM
Better not let the Sheriff of Nottingham find out. He might just write 'im up.
 
2003-09-20 12:22:50 PM
So we're back to doing stunts in magic again eh? I remember reading about them as a kid and wondering why crowds were gullible enough to be taken in by them. I suppose given the current political climate it makes sense. We're taught to believe everything an authority tells us is true.

But couldn't we just round up all the killer clowns and murderously rapist priests, arm them with alien weapons found at crop circle sites and send them out after these charlatan illusionists?
 
2003-09-20 12:23:00 PM
Actually, it's a fairly easy trick. I was going to say how it's done, but some magician or another on Fark would get very mad at me, so I will merely point you towards one of William Poundstone's books. Let me just say it's all in the "blind"fold.
 
2003-09-20 12:24:52 PM
He'll still drive better than most Oklahoma drivers, though.
 
2003-09-20 12:25:05 PM
Wasted?
 
2003-09-20 12:25:25 PM
Shoot David Blaine Game

(actually gets quite funny once you have killed him)
 
2003-09-20 12:27:52 PM
My favorite version of this trick was done by a magician named David Williamson. After being thoroughly blindfolded (half dollars taped over his eyes, dough put over the coins, and a blindfold over everything else), and he then proceeded to drive a golf cart through a busy Las Vegas casino!
 
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