Sorry to get anyones hopes up, but I just read his next ‘stunt’ will be next month. He will supposedly hang by his feet from somewhere for maybe two days.
My thoughts are immediately, is this possible without doing bodily harm to yourself?
You’d think it would drive him batty.
He is real but he isn’t normal. His next stunt will be self-amputation of both feet with dental floss over the course of a week. I think he should start a new religion. I predict he will have over 1,000,000 members within a year.
So no one knows what the physical consequneces would be? Okay, will look elsewhere.
If there’s any chance of his head exploding a la Scanners, I might just check that out.
Hangin’s too good for 'im.
The physical consequences will be nothing at all, because he will either condition himself, or cheat, to avoid them.
I’m not a doctor, but my best WAG:
[ul]
[li]blood loss[/li][li]the ‘pins and needles’ feeling in a big way[/li][li]exposure to the elements, depending on where he’s hanging from (sunburn, heat stroke, windchill, etc.)[/li][li]dizziness and maybe nausea, but I doubt it[/li][li]headache[/li][li]lethargy[/li][/ul]
Tease.
“Cheat”? He’s a magician. Everything he does is cheating. It’s what he gets paid to do.
If you’re getting paid to cheat, is it really cheating?
Daniel
That was indeed the context I was intending. Though I think that his stunts aren’t looked at as being magic by most people, just stupid wastes of time, so the fact that he does (probably) use tricks to do these idiotic things is often overlooked.
What kind of trick could he have done to hold his breath?
And why is no one telling me what would happen to a non magician if they hung too long?
I think he was sucking on pure oxygen for a while before hand.
I’m guessing that he could break blood vessels in his brain. He would probably pass out. I think he would wear one of those special suits that pilots wear to get around this.
You forgot peeing on his own head and pooping into his shirt.
I am also not a doctor, but have lots of experience with inversion tables. I would suppose that the big concern would be the increased blood pressure- he’d wind up with a fairly massive headache after a while from the increase in cranial pressure, and if he chose to ignore that (or has an undiagnosed eye disorder) he runs the risk of stroking out or detaching his retinas.
I am curious to see how he sets this one up.
I wish I had some useful information to provide on the subject, Tamara+.
All I can think is that this is one of the most feebly conceived stunts I can recall hearing about. Is it even a “stunt?” It’s not particularly spectacular, or even obviously dangerous (as this thread demonstrates so far). What’s the worst that could happen? Generally your most impressive stunts have an element of imminent disaster:
Escaping from exploding building = getting blown up
Being sealed in a milk can full of water = drowning
Jumping Snake River Canyon on rocketcycle = breaking all body parts
Hanging upside down for two days = ??
Spinal injury? Knee goiters? Ankle rash? Persistent migraine? Who the hell knows or cares? Imagine the tedium! “He’s… still up there.”
It may very well be hellaciously bad for him; but so is smoking four packs a day for years, and no one ever called my grandfather a “stuntman.”
You just described the majority of his big public stunts. “Ooh, he’s sealed in a box under a giant tank of water. No, not underwater…there’s just a giant tank of water sitting over the box he’s in.” “Ooh, he’s sealed in a room with walls of ice! No, he’s not actually doing anything in there, just sitting.” “Ooh, he’s sitting on top of a pillar! No, he’s not actually doing acrobatics or anything…just sitting there.” “Ooh, he’s sitting in a big plastic box over the Thames! No, he’s not actually doing anything up there…just sitting.”
Damn, I wish I had his press agent. I can sit around like you wouldn’t believe.
Does anyone know why he stopped doing his Street Magic type stuff? I mean, I watched that when I was 16 or so and thought it was pretty damn cool. All his other “stunts” just make me want to punch him in the face. Maybe that will be his next trick. “Watch David Blaine get punched in the face for 2 days straight by all of his previous fan base! Will he survive? Tune in to find out!”