Friday, January 25, 2008
Blue Man Group denies patron's story of abuse
chicagotribune.com: "His voice cracking with emotion, James Srodon recounted Thursday how a camera had been shoved down his throat during a Blue Man Group performance in Chicago, injuring his esophagus and resulting in nightmares."
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I personally find this to be absurdly ridiculous. Suing someone for something they didn't do is too common nowadays and, especially in this situation, only goes to show how you can sue people for anything and everything. On another note, I feel that this sort of performance is tricky in this area because, as Jed once said, if you give the audience the space to go in a specific direction they WILL. I wonder if anyone else had problems with it and never voiced it or if this time they just picked the wrong guy. It seems to me that if the "camera" never entered his mouth there is no way anything could have happened to this man other than some neck injury and maybe some scarring memories for both he and his grandson. Though I guess if you genuinely believe something happened. . . anything is conceivable. The human mind is a powerful thing.
The Blue Man Group performances are pretty surreal, but not strange enough so that I would think that a person would imagine a camera being shoved down his throat.
Though I could understand how such an experience could be scarring, the person who sued must really feel like an idiot.
As Naomi said, it just goes to show you how powerful the human mind is.
If it were me who made this accusation, after the realization that no camera ever entered my mouth, I would feel really dumb. And that is the only logical explanation I can see for why they would still attempt to press charges on something so ridiculous. You can't back down now once you've made such big a deal about it right?
Well, at least all such traumas can be solved with a little ice cream.
Once again, this is ridiculous however I have seen the Blue Man Group and maybe not everything you see actually happens but some of the things they do to people if they really happen must not be enjoyable to endure. Probably not much of what you see actually happens so this man should feel like an idiot pretty much. However a nightmare in which you pay to see blue men do things and then they show you what a throat looks like must be pretty haunting.
This is ridiculous. I've seen this stunt done live. They have this huge camera thing and they pretend to put it in the person's mouth, but it never actually goes in to their mouth... let alone down their throat - it just cuts to a video of it going down the esophagus...
This claim seems so stupid. However, its an important lesson. If you do stuff with audience involvement, be prepared for things like this to happen.
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