Hourly Breaks? Blaine's Cheating!

Onlookers unimpressed by Blaine's latest stunt
By Ambreen Ali,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 24, 2008 3:04 PM CDT
Hourly Breaks? Blaine's Cheating!
Both hanging upside down above Central Park's Wollman Rink in New York, Kelly Ripa interviews magician David Blaine for "Live with Regis and Kelly."   (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

David Blaine takes a 10-minute break every hour? "It's cheating," says an unimpressed onlooker among a crowd of 8,000 watching Blaine hang upside down in Central Park until a grand finale tonight, the New York Daily News reports. Though the illusionist planned to do his business using a catheter, his spokesman says he "found he couldn't drink" or "relieve himself upside down."

"I'm not going to pee all over myself to satisfy those people. It's pretty hard-core," Blaine says.
(More David Blaine stories.)

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