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Hello,

Have you ever been injured by magic, or injured someone elase (accidentally, I hope) with magic?

My magic injury occured when I was little, and performed the Disappearing Paperclip effect, in which the paper clip shot up my sleeve by means of an elastic. I was about 8 at the time, and when the paper clip shot up into my sleeve, it gashed my arm in the process!

Another one was when I performed The Ninja Rings. In the routine, the spectators hold onto one ring and taps it against yours, whereupon the two link. The person I gave it to was having trouble linking it, and he got so frustrated he thrust the ring down as hard as he could, bashing right into my thumb in the process. I was pretty h urt, but ironically, that was the time the two rings linked.

Let's hear your horror stories!

Michael Kras

i was so going to make a post about this yesterday, but didnt have the time. yes i have had a painfull magic trick in the last week.

i was doing a little trick for a friend outside. what i do is make a cig float out of the box and into my mouth. i then started to smoke it and started making it fly around with it lit. the darn thing fell and landed BETWEEN my big toe and the one next to it. burning both toes where they touch. it hurts soooo bad.

NOTE TO SELF: dont wear sandles when doing floating cigs.

I have tennis elbow from trying out the wand ( drum stick ) roll...

I've burned fingers doing lit cigarette magic, burned my tongue swallowing matches, and cinged my facial hair blowing fireballs... Moral of the story; don't play with fire.

Ive got some pretty nasty scars on my neck from over performing saw. Painful at the time but opened doors to sooooooooo many new patter stories about how they got there

You're all pansies! Those little Owie type things don't count...

I've been bit and clawed by a multiple of livestock ranging from Bunny Rabbits (that have actually caused me more pain than the bigger critters) to Parrots/Cockatoos to big cats.

I've had three escape stunts go wrong that resulted in major hurts, the worse being caught on the Newsreels of Chicago Television as I nearly fell into Lake Michigan to my death... the rope holding me tied beneath a helicopter (straight jacket escape) malfunctioned (the safety gimmick actually failed) and I did a terrible impression of a skipping stone across water.

I had one of the wire bars of a vanishing bird cage (the one's that fold and go up the sleeve) slash my forearm open and I'll not go into all the little boo boo type deals such as you guys have mentioned thus far... or how badly I've torn my body apart over the years lifting, hefting and moving all that outrageously heavy c*** (not the best) for nearly a quarter of a century

It's safer to stick with the card and coin tricks... wish I'd listened

It's never to late to go back.

Craig Browning wrote:I've had three escape stunts go wrong that resulted in major hurts, the worse being caught on the Newsreels of Chicago Television as I nearly fell into Lake Michigan to my death... the rope holding me tied beneath a helicopter (straight jacket escape) malfunctioned (the safety gimmick actually failed) and I did a terrible impression of a skipping stone across water.

Well I've just nicked my thumb on the 8 of Hearts. Stings like hell.

I dropped Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic on my foot but thats about as bad as it gets.

i performed the sawing off of the arm once and forgot the fake one.