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David Blaine's Crash Landing
David Blaine's latest trick didn't prove to be a turkey, but the death-defying performer nearly had the stuffing beaten out of him.
The endurance-stunt artist managed a Thanksgiving Day escape from a spinning gyroscope hanging high above Times Square, but didn't score many style points as he jumped 30 feet and smashed through a plywood stage.
Blaine, 33, was shackled to the massive carnival-like contraption at 10 a.m. last Tuesday as part of a challenge sponsored by Target.
His goal was to survive nausea and dizziness during a three-day ride in a contraption inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's famed Vitruvian Man drawing and free himself by 6 a.m. Friday—in time to kick off the holiday shopping season.
The daredevil went without food or water and wore only a ski jacket, scarf and pants, and spun at roughly eight revolutions per minute. A dehydrated Blaine broke out of his bindings around 2:15 p.m. Thursday, only minutes after getting the go-ahead to make the attempt and 52 hours after he first began the endurance test.
Dangling from the gyroscope, he plunged through a wooden platform below but was uninjured in the fall. Moments later, he appeared disoriented (ya think?), but was relieved to be on solid ground again.
"Thank you so much, everybody, for coming out and supporting this, it's been so fun," Blaine told hundreds of fans, many of whom came after watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, gathered in a cold rain to witness his latest feat.
"It was actually harder than I thought it would be," he added.
Before strapping himself in, Blaine said he took the dare because Target was giving 100 needy children and their families chosen by his favorite charity, the Salvation Army, a $500 shopping spree on Friday morning.
The performer, who's been an avid supporter of the Salvation Army since he himself received much clothing from the organization in his childhood, joined the kids the next day on the shopping extravaganza at the retail giant's outlet in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Blaine's previous stunts include a seven-night stint last May in a water-filled acrylic ball outside Manhattan's Lincoln Center, encasing himself in a block of ice for 61 hours, fasting for 44 days in an acrylic box, being buried alive for seven days, and perching himself on a tiny pole overlooking the Big Apple's Bryant Park for 35 hours.
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