I want to know what happened to Sam Bracnikov. I'm not sure if I remember his surname correctly and the last time I found something on the internet about him was a few years ago. He was famous in NZ in the mid-1990's before the internet was so popular. I'm sure he'd be all over it now. In 1994 he was jumped on by security guards and arrested after he had tried to spray Prince Charles with air freshener to remove, as he put it "the stink of royalty". Being a fervent anti-royalist he had already thrown some dung at the king of Spain (correct me if I'm wrong), and was a regular anti-royal ranter to talkback radio. My favourite quote of his was when someone asked him why he couldn't just spray around Prince Charles, but had to lunge out at him. In his Dalmatian accent he answered "If you have a smelly toilet, do you spray AROUND de toilet? NO, you spray IN de toilet!" He used to speak in a long monologue which went something like this "..because dese peoples, dey don't have a brain in der heads, and vy are dey better dan odder peoples, just because dey were born into royalty....." and so on for ages. I was very pleased in my first year at Auckland University to see him demonstrating at Aotea Square, standing by a large, handwritten, misspelt sign covered with a very long rant very much the same as what I have just quoted.
They were going to lock him up when Prince Charles came the next time, but no! That wouldn't be fair. He had his rights to protest like everyone else. So they built him a little platform by the side of the road where he could stand and spray his air-freshener at the passing royal car. The news cameras were even there to capture the glorious moment.
I wonder where Sam is now?
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