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Why...
Have people started flinging things at stage performers? Adele recently at her Las Vegas concert dared anyone to throw anything at her and see what happened!  Well, it’s not exactly a new phenomenon. Originally performers were paid by money thrown at them on stage. I assume the more that was thrown the more grateful they were.  Tom Jones has had enough knickers thrown at him to supply a decent sized Marks and Spencer store and no doubt Ozzy Osbourne has enough headless bats to build a wall. Recently the objects have ranged from a lemon at Arianne Grande (is that a subtle comment), a dildo at Lil Nas X, a mobile phone lobbed at Drake, a teddy at Lady Gaga and weirdest of all, the urn of a fan’s dead mother’s ashes tossed at Pink! (Before that someone tossed her a Brie de Meaux cheese)!  There are three issues here that worry me. Firstly, who goes to a concert with a massive roundel of cheese or even a funeral urn as something suitable to toss at a performer. Secondly, with supposed security at these events how on earth do they get in? Thirdly, don’t the people sitting next to them think this is a tad unusual?
...and another thing
I must admit at times I have thrown things at performers, usually at current affair hosts and with the only damage being to my own TV.Â
Throwing things at people whom we disapprove of also has a long history. Bringing back the stocks and letting us throw cow pats or custard pies at whoever is grabbed inside might be a far better deterrent for small crimes than a few hours of social working. There could be a sliding scale. X many cow pats for first offence with y number of throwers. Escalating to a full squad of throwers and a mountain of cow pats, hosing the victim down occasionally with the final insult of the offender in the nude. I think I might have something here. Take the arrogant shine off some looters’ and muggers’ faces. And we could charge to watch.
...and another thing
Whilst I understand that the wonderful Lady Gaga flicked aside something thrown at her and went on signing without missing a beat, most performersÂ
are understandably taken aback at being used as target practice and are lost for words.Â
They should remember the inimitable Oscar Wilde. When leaving the theatre one night with his lover Lord Alfred ‘Boise’ Douglas, Douglas’ father, the Marquess of Queensbury was waiting and threw a rotten cabbage at Wilde. He deftly caught it and smiled taking a deep breath of the rotting vegetable as if a bouquet of flowers.Â
“Why, thank you, your Grace. Every time I smell it, I shall think of you’, he replied.Â
Touché.Â
Keep safeÂ
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