Cunning stunt

David Blaine, what a character hey? I've just heard that he is trying another death defying stunt. His previous stunts have all been rather impressive (in a kind of 'I couldn't do that' sort of way). Forgive me if I've got any of this wrong, research is not my strong point, but to summarise, he:

- got buried alive for a few days in a coffin;
- spent a week or so standing on a pole;
- spent a few days locked in a block of ice;
- spent a few weeks in a specimen jar, suspended above the Thames, drinking only water, writing a diary, getting pelted with eggs, waving;
- spent a week or so submerged in a goldfish bowl, got wrinkly fingers and then failed in a world attempt to hold his breath.

His latest effort sees him strapped inside a gyroscope type thing for three days, then trying to escape from shackles. Doesn't sound all that daring does it? The hamster wheel will apparently spin his body UP TO 8 TIMES PER MINUTE!!! Gee. It's hardly quick enough to create it's own gravitational field. After a while, some (obviously very dextorous) deck hand will shackle him giving him 16 hours to escape. 16 hours? Houdini eat your heart out. Assuming he doesn't die of boredom during the escape, he is then going to take 100 underpriveleged children chosen by the Salvation Army (read, good looking, healthy children that don't have a record of shoplisting or drug abuse) on a shopping spree.

Bore off Blaine, and only come back when you plan to spend a week submerged in a tank full of great whites with fish paste rubbed on your body.