David Blaine reveals new stunts for Vegas show — and the one doctors won’t let him do
nypost.comDavid Blaine, naturally, does not have vacation photos like the rest of us.Sitting at a table in his lower Manhattan magic lab — a secret lair on the edge of Chinatown where the 50-year-old develops his tricks and stunts — Blaine showed The Post footage from a trip to Southeast AsiaVideo reveals him breaking bottles over his head, getting buried in scorpions and eating red hot coals.
Then it cuts to Blaine making a move to kiss a king cobra: a snake with venom so deadly that a single bite could kill him in just 15 minutes. “The venom is potent enough to kill an elephant,” Blaine told The Post. “I worked with an expert [reptile handler] named Fiitz, in Indonesia, who keeps the snakes.
He had one that had been rescued from a community where it was a nuisance. Another had killed a man,” Blaine told The Post.“Kissing a king cobra’s head is the most dangerous stunt I’ve ever attempted.
Get bit by a cobra and you will not be unscathed.”While paramedics and an ambulance were on hand, Blaine said, the nearest hospital was 20 minutes away.
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