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This was the world's first zero gravity straitjacket escape and took 40 seconds to complete. [citation needed] On September 4, 2010, on the Fox News channel show Fox & Friends, Alexanderia the Great set a record for an extreme straitjacket escape. She escaped a regulation straitjacket secured with 50 feet of 1/4 inch chain and 10 padlocks in 2: ...
Dorothy Dietrich (born April 1, 1948 [1]) is an American stage magician and escapologist, best known for performing the bullet catch in her mouth (although Adelaide Herrmann reputedly did this earlier) and the first woman to perform a straitjacket escape while suspended hundreds of feet in the air from a burning rope.
Ferenc Dezső Weisz (March 4, 1876 – June 12, 1945), known as Theodore "Dash" Hardeen, was a Hungarian-American magician and escape artist who was the younger brother of Harry Houdini. Hardeen, who usually billed himself as the "brother of Houdini", was the founder of the Magician's Guild.
In 2012, Lucas Wilson, an illusionist from Canada managed the fastest ever recorded escape from a straitjacket while suspended; he escaped in 8.4 seconds while hanging upside down from his ankles at a height of 1m.
David Straitjacket (born July 1977), is a British escape artist most notable for his television appearances, and world record attempts. Biography and history [ edit ]
Houdini would escape after being strapped in a straitjacket, sealed in a casket, and then buried in a large tank filled with sand. While posters advertising the escape exist (playing off the Bey challenge by boasting "Egyptian Fakirs Outdone!"), it is unclear whether Houdini ever performed buried alive on stage.
Cement Tomb Escape – Gunnarson was handcuffed, chained and buried alive under 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 tons of wet cement on 31 October 2008. [ 7 ] Houdini's Milk Can Escape for the Search for Houdini television special on Halloween Night, 1987 – he was a last minute replacement for James Randi , who was injured just before his scheduled live performance.
Later that year, she became one the youngest in history to perform Harry Houdini’s infamous upside-down straitjacket escape. [10] Later in life, she performed a version of it on American magician’s Penn and Teller on their hit show Fool Us. [11] She is now an associate producer on the show. [12]