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Belgian Artist Jan De Cock Lives Up To His Name On Plane

072710cok.jpg 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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By John Del Signore in on July 27, 2010 11:41 AM

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  • T11231

    “So then, I said to the stewardess, ‘I could kill the pilot with these!’”:

    http://www.artinfo.com/news/photos/2469/23402/

  • robingee

    Thanks for making artists look like pretentious a-holes! We appreciate it!

    jackass.

  • Andre

    Too bad this wasn't the guy hit in the head by the metro-north train.

  • leepresson

    "Stewardess"? Hello 1974!

  • jpeditor

    ""I could kill the pilot with these."

    Should have thrown him out over the ocean right then and there.

  • eveostay

    I hate to be a, uh, dick, but I think it's probably pronounced like "coke".

  • Kelles

    sure, but 'slap De Coke' doesn't sound funny at all

  • Guest

    does de c*ock snort coke?

  • negtive

    Del Signore, you take a lot of crap here, but I think that last sentence deserves a round of applause. Well done sir.

  • Kojak

    hah yes. Very good.

    Someone must've definitely rubbed De C*ck the wrong way. What a mess.

    (Damn Gothamist Filter @#%%!)

  • mdow

    seconded.

  • ides_of_march

    Stewardess should have given him a swift kick in his Brussel sprouts.

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