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09-25-2008, 04:02 AM
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Does this make him a fraud or just a guy hanging upside down for 60 hours playing it safe. http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/tvshow...eaks-hour.html |
09-25-2008, 04:24 AM
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In all the pre-publicity for the stunt, Blaine said the latest endurance test was his most challenging to date. He said would drink water upside down and urinate through a catheter.
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'About once every hour, David comes upright for about five minutes for a medical and equipment check. He has something to drink and he relieves himself, something even David can't do upside down.'
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09-25-2008, 05:01 AM
|  | Working on successful. Got the first syllable... | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huddinge, Sweden | | | Not a fraud, but a cheater. Then again, who cares? The value to society is the same anyway. Exactly zero...
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09-25-2008, 06:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Charleston, WV | | | Why didn't he just revise one of his earlier tricks and hold his breath for sixty hours.
He could then have just taken a break every few minutes or seconds....as long as he doesn't say he won't be taking any breaks.
What he did may not have been easy, but his stunt was completely misrepresented. He'll have a lot of trouble getting funding for his next trick. Actually, I'll bet with how extensive his contracts will now be, his chance of actually dying in an attempt will dramatically increase.
Perhaps his next stunt can be digging his own grave and nailing his own coffin.
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09-25-2008, 08:48 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | When I first saw this stunt live last night it appeared that maybe the lighting was not coordinated with his movements, in otherwords we saw parts of the trick that weren't supposed to be seen. You even catch the commentator at a loss for words and continuing to go by the script and describe what was supposed to happen.
Watching it happen was uncomfortable. But, I will give him this: the pre-recorded illusions leading up to the dissapointment were pretty cool. |
09-25-2008, 09:11 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Diego/LA | | | I was in London on vacation when he was up in a suspended box on the river thames. You would have thought that the queen was up there taking a royal dump. There was absolutely nothing to see but the bubble boy. It was a pickpocket's wet dream with everyone's attention skywards.
I see more entertainment value in a toaster that burns the face of jesus into a slice of white bread. |
09-25-2008, 09:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | | I'd start throwing rocks at him. I guess its good for him he doesn't do his stunts here. |
09-25-2008, 09:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | | Seems like whatever he's doing (and I didn't even know until I saw this thread) it's got people talking...
hmmm...
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09-25-2008, 09:38 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | I watched it on TV last night, and was seriously annoyed by the lameness of it all. I hadn't even been aware of the setup of three days hanging, I just channel-surfed onto it. After they pulled him upright the commentator and "doctors" made a big production out of how dangerous it was to be upright after so long upside down, but if you listened all they were saying (repeatedly) was that his legs would be wobbly for a few minutes, and his eyes might be a bit red. On top of that, he was obviously fine when they got him on the scaffolding- the commentator kept having to say "he seems a bit weak, but he bravely waves to the crowd" -he was fine. And no wonder, if he was allowed to be upright every hour on the hour. THEN, the climactic jump, was not even a jump! He was lowered to the ground slowly by cables. He could have filmed an entire scene from "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" in the time it took them to lower him down. He went so slowly I thought it was a joke, like "this time we got you, but they're going to haul me up and then I'll jump for real." H got hauled up all right, and he kept looking up and making hand signs at the helicopter (I presume) that lifted him away. It took them a couple minutes just to clear him of the structure, so I imagine he was looking up in annoyance like "why aren't I flying away magically into the sky yet?" And of course the cameras didn't "look up" until he'd been gone for a while.
The whole thing was ultra lame, and I guess I'm the dummy for sitting through it. |
09-25-2008, 09:38 AM
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09-25-2008, 09:45 AM
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09-25-2008, 10:51 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | They should have lowered him and hung him upside down from a tree so he could be a human pinata. That would be a real endurance test. |
09-25-2008, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar They should have lowered him and hung him upside down from a tree so he could be a human pinata. That would be a real endurance test. | Already been done.....by Rod Kimble. 
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09-25-2008, 10:55 AM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MJ5150 Already been done.....by Rod Kimble.
-Mike | Whoops. My bad. |
09-25-2008, 10:57 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pittsburgh | | | I would rather watch him pee himself just standing on the ground then not do it and hang upside down for 3 days. |
09-25-2008, 11:01 AM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | I'd like to see him pee upside down without a catheter.  |
09-25-2008, 11:25 AM
| | | | i just watched the video of david blaine getting punched by kimbo slice 2 times in the stomach.
looked to me tho that he stepped backwards just before impact making the blow land with less power.
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09-25-2008, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar I'd like to see him pee upside down without a catheter. | Dude...
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09-25-2008, 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by NJL | i love those videos! |
09-25-2008, 11:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan | | | I caught the end of it and I had no idea what had happened. He was lowered to the ground and then carried away.
It was very anticlimactic. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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