Brand was accompanying his wife, Katy Perry, when he was beaten about the head and shoulders with a sock full of discharged D cell batteries, thrown into a dark van and forced to dig his way out of a Japanese prison with a chopstick. Knowing Brand, he still probably made a good time out of it somehow.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhSbaIq3GGY&feature=related {Russell Brand regarding death threats..}