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Your support makes all the difference.SOME people are just accident- prone. At Brighton's Laughing Gas festival, Paul Morocco plunged through the roof of his London ambulance while juggling. During the Fringe Cavalcade danger came in the form of a 5ft-wide orange.
The outsize Outspan is part of Morocco's act at the Gilded Balloon. In between juggling fruit and flaming torches, Morocco crouches inside said citrus and wobbles to the sound of flamenco.
During the procession, Morocco was delicately balanced on the rim of his orange (it opens into two halves) on the back of a float. As he bent over to check his guitar, the giant fruit closed over him. At this point the lorry began to climb a hill, the orange rolled backwards . . . and shot off down the road with Morocco inside.
The glass-fibre fruit, covered, fortunately, with 5in of rubber foam, bounced several times before running out of juice in front of a bus- load of inquisitive tourists. Morocco's pregnant girlfriend leapt from the truck and was relieved to find the fruit-obsessed juggler only bruised and the orange intact.
'I landed on my head,' said a pithed-off Morocco. 'I've got a lump and I've scrunched my upper back slightly. I'm going to the chiropractor tomorrow.'
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