Blaine's Latest Stunt Endzzzz

No one will ever know for certain how many of the 60 hours David Blaine actually hung suspended upside-down for. Many spectators witnessed him standing upright, being suspended horizontally and basically just slacking off on his mind-exploding magician duties. A collective "yawn" was heard throughout the city as the 60 hours went on, and last night ABC aired the grand finale: the Dive of Death.

Just after 11 p.m., delayed by Bush's speech, Blaine essentially bungee jumped from atop a 44-foot-high platform. The Daily News reports back saying he dropped down and touched "the stage below lightly with his toes before cables pulled him back up. He then hung in the air like a sack of potatoes with a goofy grin on his face, occasionally kicking his legs as though he were running." Boos were in place of "oohs and ahhs" from most watching live, one telling the paper it was "ridiculous," and "everybody was robbed of their time." Take a look in the below video (he jumps at about 2 minutes in and the crowd reactions are worth listening to):

The 2-hour televised program included disclaimers such as "don't try this at home," but really, kids, you can try it--in fact you've probably already bungee jumped anyway. In the end, did Blaine only really succeed at putting in the most hours to ultimately just piss off a bunch of New Yorkers?

UPDATE: Blaine talks to TMZ about the stunt, and blames the delay Bush caused for it sucking.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on September 25, 2008 11:30 AM

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NannyState

Maybe next, he'll climb into a barrel and go over the falls under the Brooklyn Bridge...nah, too risky.

efg72

You want to know the real magic? He got that many people to come out and watch and probably got a few million $$ to disappear from the advertiser's and network's pockets. Now that's a trick I want to learn!

miz coaster

I love new yorkers...

"He didn't disappear... he's up there!!!"

they will always say what they think... and they were right on as usual.

zodak

HowBoutDemCowboys: i didn't see that trick (i must have skipped over it?), but what about when he moved the letter on the dollar bill? or when made a deck of cards disapear except for one suit & the autographed card?

even the matchbook trick (with the dvr, you can see him replace the matchbook) is still amazing because he changes the back of the autographed card into a matchbook in less than a second.

JenChungsBaby

Hey, give Blaine a break. He needed to save his energy up to bang more hot models this weekend. And not everything can be as exciting as standing on top of a pole or floating in water for a few days.

Guest

Seriously Zodak? His magic rocks? Even the 'trick' where he uses his own marker to draw X's on a guys hand, then uses his fingers which he obviously dipped into some kind of agent, rubbed the X's off, only to put them back on the guy's hand with a quarter that obviously has inked X's on the bottom that transfer to same guy's hand? Seriously?

Bleh!

Felix Hoenikker

He needs to disappear in the same way Steve Buscemi did at the end of 'Fargo'.

soopaman

Human Pinata would have been better.

Pull My Finger

Yet another asshole blaming Bush for his failures.

Spirit of 76

It's deceptive advertising. He said he was going to do a "Dive of Death." Since he's not dead, I'm suing.

babyhitler

#16- totally. That naked tasered dude's death plummet was hella more entertaining. Yeah I'm a bastard but that shit was. It had comedy, drama and a great climax.

citizenerased

I thought they were gonna tase him and then see if he could survive a fall onto his head

Rocknrope

Who knew Blaine grew up in Park Slope? You could see Smiling Pizza in the background of the subway stop, and that library he went to is on 6th Avenue. Not exactly "hardcore."

colonelcasey

I thought they were going to make him get out of a straight jacket upside down and then drop him through the wood floor below to see if he would survive. That probably would've made it worth the wait.

He's alienated a lot of fans and many probably won't return for his next stunt...unless he decides to try jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge as he previously stated.

KiljoyWasHere

yay we do not have to hear about this anymore!

zodak

everyone focuses on his stunts, which is stupid, so let me explain:

the stunts are just an excuse for tv stations to air his actual magic tricks.

i dvr'd the thing & only watched his street magic, (which rocks) & skipped over the stunt stuff. him & john mayer & the football players was good stuff.

Rocknrope

Bush should have addressed the public while suspended upside down, then subsequently tossed from the Piazza.

DanielJ

At the end it seemed the big shocker (at least to the overzealous announcers) was that he sort of went up into the air. Did anyone there see where he went? Up onto a big crane? did it just swing him around and drop him a little bit away? The whole thing was totally lame, but that was the only part of it that nobody seems to be talking about.

Dirk

Wow, that goes beyond lame... the "Dive of Death" my ass....

I loved how someone yelled "Are you serious? Are you serious?".

blackwhole

Wait, people are surprised that David Blaine is lame?

Gregoire

He needs to take this crap back to L.A. where it might impress somebody.

Kojak

It wouldn't be so lame if he didn't take breaks every few hours. What a wuss.

Politburo

What really bothers me about Blaine is that his 'stunts' are so fucking awful, but his other stuff -- the actual magic -- is fucking crazy.