Illusionist David Blaine's 44-day stay in a perspex cage dangling near the Thames was interrupted this week by a man trying to cut a tube supplying the New Yorker with water.
In the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning, a 38-year-old man climbed a scaffold support tower and attempted to damage the magician's water pipe. As two suspected accomplices diverted the attention of security guards, the attacker reportedly began to swing the box's support cables, yelling: "Go home David. Go back to America. We don't want you here. I am going to rock you".
As the 40-minute drama unfolded, police cars, ambulances and fire trucks arrived, and the man was eventually persuaded to come down. He was immediately arrested for criminal damage and taken to a south London police station.
Tuesday's drama was just the latest attempt by would-be saboteurs to disrupt David's stunt, which has 33 days remaining. Onlookers have thrown eggs and hit golf balls at the cage, beaten on drums late at night and exposed their breasts and bottoms in a bid to break the 30-year-old's resolve.
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