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Belgian Artist Jan De Cock Lives Up To His Name On Plane
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John Del Signore
Published Jul 27, 2010
Modified Jul 27, 2010
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Visual and installation artist Jan De Cock—the first living Belgian artist to get an exhibition at MoMA—was detained for unruly behavior after his flight landed at JFK Airport yesterday. According to the Post, during the flight De Cock was rebuked by a flight attendant for "twirling the cord of his headset in the aisle," which is kind of a dick move. When told that his cord-twirling might injure other passengers, De Cock allegedly gestured with his headset cord as if it were a garrote and replied, "I could kill the pilot with these." After De (motherfucking) Cock stepped off the (motherfucking) plane, the Joint Terrorism Task Force questioned him, but declined to slap De Cock with any charges.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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