There's an old saw employed by artists, actors and musicians when they can't find work: "I can't even get arrested in this town." Well my earnest young aspirer - fret no more! Here's a fool proof way to get your name in print, and you know what they say - it's not bad PR if they spell your name right.
Forget that painting of Mayor Washington in lingerie, or that American flag on the floor, or even that ever-so-reviled Crucifix in urine.
No sir or ma'am, you can now use the nail-biting reality of the post 9/11 security state to your advantage. Take a sad song and make it better!
Courtesy ITV News:
Security alert sparked by 'artist'
1.47PM, Wed Apr 26 2006
A woman has been arrested in connection with a security alert sparked by the discovery of a number of suspect packages.
Police said the 36-year-old told them she had planted the packages as part of an art installation.
Parts of London were brought to a standstill as four packaged were found in the Shepherd's Bush and Hammersmith Grove areas of west London.
Roads were sealed off and London Underground was forced to suspend services on the Piccadilly and District lines as the bomb squad were called in.
Scotland Yard said the woman was arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance.
"While officers were responding to the incidents a 36-year-old woman attended a west London police station," said a police spokeswoman.
"The woman who is from the Shepherd's Bush area and who described herself as an artist was then arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance and taken into custody where she remains."