Name that stunt-gone-wrong?
I feel morbid for asking this, but it's writing-research-related: what are some escape-artist stunts that went wrong and the performer suffered injury as a result? There's one in particular that made an impression on me, where it was (I think) a female celebrity rather than a professional escape artist, and the box she was trying to get out of ignited or exploded or something . . . ?
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Amazing lady. Margaret Hamilton. Badly hurt on the Wizard of Oz set. Burned during an explosion requiring a month off.
Buddy Ebsen was injured on the same set and left the picture after inhaling silver paint while playing the Tin Man. Ray Bolger had been slated for the role. Ebsen switched with him. Ebsen had been slated to play the Scarecrow. With Ebsen out and Bolger playing Scarecrow, Jack Hailey became the iconic Tin Man
How about Chris Burden being famously nailed to a Volkswagen? Technically, though, the stunt went correctly, I guess.
Owen Hart's jump-out-of-the-rafters wrestling stunt ended pretty badly.
And this one disturbed me as a kid:
I liked that show called "Voyagers!" staring Jon-Erik Hexum. He jokingly put a gun loaded with blanks up to his head and pulled the trigger. Faster than a speeding bullet he learned that was a bad plan.
UK TV Trauma, involving members of the viewing public:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late,_Late_Breakfast_Show
Here's a couple:
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=21392&forum=18
There was a Houdini type escape artist who decided to get himself buried alive in a perspex coffin. In cement. They lower him tino a grave, pour on the cement -- and the coffin caves in, crushing and smothering him at once. Frantic efforts to dig him up fail to save his life.
A couple years later, someone else tries the stunt with a reinforced coffin. Same exact result. I don't think anybody's done it since.
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