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February 22, 2007 | Issue 4-13

BOSTON--A local mime is completely unaware the invisible box that once confined him is no longer there. The see-through container has been gone for nearly 15 minutes, but the 38-year-old street performer Jerry Vickers continues to sit dejectedly on a Washington Avenue sidewalk.

Concerned passerby Judy Millner noticed Vickers’s plight when he sadly pressed his hands against the inner wall of the box.

“I couldn’t just walk by,” said the sympathetic Millner. “Obviously he was trapped, and I did what I think anyone would do in that situation.”

Apparently, Vickers did not notice Millner removing his unseen prison because he was animatedly sobbing at the time. The entertainer is now free to move about or begin pulling a heavy object with a rope. However, he remains gloomy and unnecessarily restrained on the sidewalk.

No one is sure how Vickers became entrapped, but witnesses seemed to think the confinement was sudden and quite unexpected.

“I guess [Vickers] didn’t know that box was coming,” said onlooker Hanson Blake. “He was just climbing some ladder that I couldn’t even see, and then his eyes got real big. He seemed to become panicked as he hit his hands on all four sides of what appeared to be some sort of undetectable box.”

Other witnesses confirm Vickers turned very sad when he realized he was trapped. Most observers recall seeing a large black tear on the performer’s right cheek.

At this time, Vickers remains dormant on the sidewalk, as he assumes the box to still confine him. 

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