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At Saturday Market this weekend, the warm weather brought out a number of street performers. This man's act was all about pain. To collect money from the audience, he lay on his bed of nails. Then a challenged people to fill his hat with money so that the weight would increase the magnitude of his suffering. Whenever someone would put money in the hat he would cry out in anguish.
March 23, 2004
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