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{{w|Wayne Coyne}}, the lead singer of the band {{w|The Flaming Lips}}, is indeed known to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd16G--UeLM| crowd-surf in a giant hamster ball].
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This is one of several xkcd comics to feature a hamster ball, with the others including [[152|152: "Hamster Ball"]], [[413|413: "New Pet"]], and  [[442|442: "xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel"]]. This comic particularly references [[Cueball]]'s wish to own a hamster ball from [[152|152: "Hamster Ball"]], as the first panel illustrates Cueball saying "Let's go." in response to the suggestion that they steal the hamster ball from Coyne. Since human-sized hamster balls are somewhat rare, this comic outlines an elaborate mission to acquire a human-sized hamster ball by infiltrating a music concert and kidnapping a rock star, who would be structurally powerless to fight back while trapped within a spherical object.
  
 
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Revision as of 23:44, 23 June 2013

Hamster Ball Heist
First person to bring me Wayne Coyne in a hamster ball gets a free t-shirt!  He gets one too.
Title text: First person to bring me Wayne Coyne in a hamster ball gets a free t-shirt! He gets one too.

Explanation

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Wayne Coyne, the lead singer of the band The Flaming Lips, is indeed known to crowd-surf in a giant hamster ball.

This is one of several xkcd comics to feature a hamster ball, with the others including 152: "Hamster Ball", 413: "New Pet", and 442: "xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel". This comic particularly references Cueball's wish to own a hamster ball from 152: "Hamster Ball", as the first panel illustrates Cueball saying "Let's go." in response to the suggestion that they steal the hamster ball from Coyne. Since human-sized hamster balls are somewhat rare, this comic outlines an elaborate mission to acquire a human-sized hamster ball by infiltrating a music concert and kidnapping a rock star, who would be structurally powerless to fight back while trapped within a spherical object.

Transcript

Person 1: You know that giant hamster ball you've always wanted? I just found out that Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips crowd-surfs in one.
Person 2: Let's go.
Some Weeks Later ...
[Wayne Coyne is, in fact, crowd-surfing in a giant hamster ball.]
Person: Ready?
Friends: Ready.
Person: Now!
shove
[People on both sides shove the crowd out of the way, causing Coyne in his ball to fall to the ground.]
Wayne Coyne: Hey!
Person: Okay, push!
[Person and friends start pushing the ball away, as the crowd looks on.]
Wayne Coyne: What's going on?
[Some roll him up the ramp into the back of a semi, while others hold the crowd back and one stands by to drive.]
Wayne Coyne: Help!
[The truck drives off, leaving the audience in a cloud of dust.]


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Discussion

Unlike most of the comics featuring real people, this one had essentially zero followup. I can't find anything on anyone trying to do it, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened. Still, I don't feel that small blemish could make this explanation incomplete. --Quicksilver (talk) 04:34, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

I would like to see examples of attempted kidnaps of Wayne Coyne. 108.162.249.209 23:12, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

    Oh wait never mind108.162.249.209 23:14, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Would he get 2 t-shirts for turning himself in?