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David Blaine's stunt gone wrong with secret video

Kevin Lim Hey there!

Let's be completely honest here...one of the big reasons why people tune into David Blaine specials is not to see what he does, but to see if something goes wrong. And last night, boy did things ever go wrong (no, not that...he's still alive).

Now, I've always loved magic. As a little boy, I used to have magic how-to books, perform tricks for my friends and family, and I used to love watching the magic TV specials. So naturally last night I tuned in to see David Blaine's TV special "Dive of Death", which was supposed to be his triumphant end to his "hanging upside-down for 60 hours" stunt (the one I emulated for 30 minutes on my show the other day).

For 2 hours, they kept promoting David's "Dive of Death"... something that had 'never been done before' and 'never likely to be done again'. The idea was that he would plummet 44 feet from above...and well...here's what happened (fast forward to the 2 minute mark and listen to the crowd's upset reaction after waiting for hours to see...well...nothing):



WHAT?! THAT WAS IT?!! Clearly something didn't go right here...and even worse, the announcer tried to still sell it as this "AMAZING" thing, even though what we saw was everything but.

Thanks to the Youtube generation, with everyone having cell phone cameras in the audience, check out what it was like to be in that crowd during the stunt(fast forward to the 2 minute mark, and listen to the New Yorkers give it to him...it's quite funny)



So what happened? According to David Blaine himself..his grand finale of diving from a platform 13 metres to the ground while attached to a harness didn't go according to plan. He was supposed to jump and, at three metres, be swept away by a bunch of helium-filled balloons. But because George Bush's presidental speech went long, they delayed his jump by 15 minutes and by then, the winds had caused the balloons to move, and caused this epic fail.

Let's hope that David Copperfield brings better tricks when he comes to town October 22nd at Prospera Place.

Ergh...I want those 2 hours of my life last night to magically be brought back.

-Kevin Lim
99.9 SUN FM Afternoons | 2-7pm PST Kevin@thesun.net