David "Puck" Rainey
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David "Puck" Rainey (born July 18, 1968 in Alameda County, California, United States) appeared on The Real World: San Francisco in 1994. A bicycle messenger during the show's shooting, he became notorious for becoming only the second Real World cast member to be evicted from the house, due to his increasingly disruptive antics.
It is worth noting that there is much disagreement within the San Francisco messenger community about whether Rainey ever actually held a job as a bicycle messenger. Some, such as Yini Yohans in her editorial in the September 11, 2000 edition of the San Francisco Call, concede that Puck "was a messenger for milliseconds," meaning that he was one of numerous young people to briefly work in the industry, but not adopted by the somewhat cliquish community. No one interviewed claimed that Puck was a bicycle messenger, in the sense that he was deserving of the ersatz icon status that his MTV fame has earned him within popular culture.
Rainey has also appeared in numerous commercials, MTV Cribs, and the Battle of the Sexes. He also had a small appearance in Eminem's video for "Without Me." He is now a photographer, manages a motorcycle shop in downtown Los Angeles, and also runs a custom granite business in Fremont, California. He was featured on People Magazine on August 15, 2006, covering a story about his second child.[1]
It is said that Rainey was the inspiration to a character, Brock Hudson (played by Matthew Lillard in the movie She's All That), because of his antics and dismissal on The Real World.
