Now that security had been stepped up at the Blaine compound, and we were becoming a high profile gay operations, we needed proper tactics. This didn't really involve going to look at the box, and assessing risks and opportunities. Instead, I bought six blank T-Shirts and wrote stuff on them,

In this attractive collection are such tactical slogans as;

• DECOY - LOOK AT ME
• SOMETHING SOMETHING SAUSAGES SOMETHING SOMETHING DAVID BLAINE
• OVER THERE. I THINK I SAW SOME PASTOURMI.
• AM I GOING TO THROW A SAUSAGE? CHANCES ARE I'M NOT UNLESS THIS T-SHIRT IS A DOUBLE BLUFF.

The idea was that people wearing these T-shirts would dance around, while the real sausage flingers would kinda fling whatever sausages they had with them. The guards, staring blankly at the people in mustard yellow T-shirts, wouldn't be able to see those of us plainly preparing to throw sausages in open view.

We were taking things seriously now.