9/2/2003: Nut pusher

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Meet Mark McGowan. He's an artist, and he has about $25,000 in student loan debt (actually 15,000 UKP).

So he has decided to push this nut along the ground, using only his nose, for seven miles. Through some of the busiest city streets in the world. It's the distance between his college and 10 Downing Street. Mr. McGowan hopes that making it all the way to the Prime Minister's residence will encourage Mr. Blair to excuse the debt.

From the full story, Mr McGowan, 37, of Peckham, south London, previously rolled himself across London for four-and-a-half miles singing We Wish You a Merry Christmas to highlight the work of office cleaners.

And he once walked for 11 miles around south and central London with a 27lb turkey strapped to his head in a bid to persuade fat people to eat less and thereby cut obesity rates.

That's respectable, and good points all, but one wonders what sort of university-level training was needed to create and pull off such stunts.