"Mad Johnny" rides Through Fire and Plate Glass" - "Mad Johnny Smashing through the plate glass barrier. Four yards away was the Cameraman, Alfred Harris, muffled in blanket as a shield against the "Shrapnel." The man who wanted to start the festival of Britain with a motorbike plunge into the Thames is busy adding to his 158 cuts and Burns riding his bike through tunnels of flaming straw soaked in petrol, and smashing straight through plate glass wearing nothing worth mentioning except a crash