David Blaine: What Is The Point? - Page 3
Now, I'm not saying he should have hung upside down all that time just to satisfy us. Personally, I think hanging upside down for that length of time is pretty dumb. It's obvious to anyone with half a brain that you could do yourself some serious harm by doing so...I'm not a doctor and even I figured that one out. Of COURSE he should have taken breaks. I'm not criticising him for taking breaks, but for billing his stunt as one thing and then doing another. If he had figured out it was too dangerous to hang upside down for that long without breaks, then he should have said so to start with...it would not have made his stunt any less dangerous. Or less stupid.
Oh, and the Dive of Death? Pretty anti-climatic in and of itself...he jumped off the platform wearing a safety harness and then disappeared.
I guess I don't see the point of these stunts. Among other things, David has been encased in ice, lived underwater, squatted in a clear box hung over the Thames, held his breath underwater for seventeen minutes, and been buried alive in a glass coffin. I guess if it's your thing, more power to ya. I just don't get my kicks watching somebody try their best to kill themselves in the most imaginative way possible.
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