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Your support makes all the difference.French poet Baudelaire wrote in 1864 that the devil's greatest trick was to make the world think he didn't exist, but David Blaine, the 21st century magician, is having none of it. The daredevil stuntman will dramatically remind the world of his existence by spending three days and nights in chainmail being zapped by 1 million volts of electricity. If he so much as scratches himself, he could send electricity surging through his body.
"It would be like getting hit by seven Taser guns over and over and over and over until the power shuts off," he told Metro.
"If I’m hallucinating and I touch my skin obviously that’s a problem – or if the suit rips because I’m stretching and trying to stop my feet from pooling with blood, which happens when you’re standing."
Blaine also added that this could be the "most effective method" of torture that exists.
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