Guy Locks Himself in Metal Box for 30 Days, Slowly Loses Sanity
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by Luke McKinney  11,088  110
03/05/2010 03:31 AM 2407 views
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Lying on your ass without moving doesn't normally earn money -- if it did, Oprah would command an invincible army of millionaires and the World of Warcraft would be the richest nation on the planet. But one man is making forty-five thousand dollars (for someone else!) lying on a bed, by putting that bed in a sealed steel box measuring 3 x 4.5 x 8 feet, a.k.a. "The precise dimensions of oh godOHGODclaustrophobic-help-GET ME OUT OF HERE!" For thirty days. And you can watch him right now.
This is what you do for entertainment when you're trapped in a box this long.
It's a cross between a competition, a scavenger hunt, an experiment in social media, and a psychological horror movie. Radio and television presenter Tim Shaw isn't just lost to the world inside the box -- even the box is lost, dumped at a mystery location. The only thing he knows is that he's been dropped off in a location that's somehow important to his past. He's offering thirty thousand pounds to anyone who can find it (and you'd offer a five figure sum to someone who could release you from a month in a metal wardrobe too).
Tim Shaw, when he was still able to sit up freely.
He's fed food and water through a double-shuttered hatch, and has unlimited outbound traffic -- he can text, Twitter, and webcam to his heart's content, but never receives a single inbound bit. He's spending the time telling stories, trying to remember where he's been (and might now be), and undergoing a prolonged psychological breakdown which, on Day 16, saw him not only talking to an eggshell with a face drawn on it but describing how much he was going to enjoy smashing it to pieces when he got out. Before apologizing to the egg's neighbour (another egg, presumably a friendlier one).
What's awesome is that before bunging himself in a box, he asked British Special Air Service celebrity-soldier Andy McNab how he should prepare, on the action-movie logic that someone from the SAS can do anything. Even better, Andy actually had advice (from when he was taken hostage), and at the top of the awesomeness mountain his advice was that the fear and psychological uncertainty was a major threat -- so you should just switch it off. Like he did, when he had to at an undisclosed location. And when Tim asked "How do you do that?", Andy answered "Ah, ya just do."
Understand: for this man, even sitting up would be an unimaginable luxury.
It's an awesome experiment, a great stunt, the exact opposite of David Blaine's unpopular attention-whoring, and the live feed is a pure perspective for anyone who just thinks they're trapped at work. Check it out ... and let us know if you find him.
View the live feed of Man in Box here!
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Funny
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Barefoot Chance 171,220  14
03/08/2010 10:06 PM
I've guessed a few times...it doesnt say you cant guess multiple times. When I get home I will just have to guess every single place on the map until I win. Just proves that I have no life.
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Frozen Chickens Section 282,028 58
03/09/2010 04:15 AM
"how hard can it be? It's a WWII site."
Well, half of Europe and most of Asia. That certainly rules out N & S America, Antarctica, and probably Australia. Thanks for the Tip! I'm right on your tail now!
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Chuckleworthy
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Irish Midgets 93,936 47
03/09/2010 04:20 AM
I see sextoys, alcohol, and red lights.
I'm guessing he's in Chances basement with everyone else who's gone missing.
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Funny
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KCheeky Monkey 124,281 89
03/09/2010 04:41 AM
Chix, he's supposed to be somewhere inside the UK. I've been going through Wikipedia (SHADDUP) and clicking sites in the UK that were bombed.
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Funny
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Fratberry 277,318 52
03/09/2010 05:50 AM
What does he do with his poops? Poop canoes? Snacks? This means he has to poop essentially lying down.
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Chuckleworthy
4 votes
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Lorem ipsum dolor ravos amet 62,361 20
03/09/2010 06:13 AM
Maybe he gets a litter box.
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Side-splitting
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Delicious & British, it's Marmite! 12,940 12
04/01/2010 07:18 AM
I'd like to think he'll go completely mad and keep them all. Propped up at the back of the box so he can talk to them as if they were his own little brown babies.
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Alt+Ctrl+Ravos 62,361 20
04/01/2010 07:20 AM
Or maybe he is saving them up for a giant poop canoe so that he can escape. Escape what, I don't know. But oh, believe me, he WILL escape.
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