David Blaine Dive of Death Video

by Elizabeth Fairview | September 25th, 2008

David Blaine's stunt was apparently, anything but death defying. (YouTube Video)

Illusionist David Blaine was booed by crowds who were frustrated by his antics during his latest 3-day, 60-hour hanging stunt over New York's Central Park. Blaine apparently took multiple hourly breaks, making his promise of hanging continuously, bogus.

For his two-hour finale live on US television, Blaine jumped from the top of the 44-ft high metal frame that had been holding him up, but was clearly harnessed and attached to a wire before being hoisted into the night sky to "vanish into the night."