According to a news release, Gunnarson was injured while attempting to escape after being handcuffed chained to the tracks of a Beijing roller-coaster.
He had freed himself and was attempting to dive to safety when the roller-coaster car, which was travelling at nearly 100 km/h, clipped his right foot.
He sustained a broken bone in his foot and some internal bleeding.
He was in hospital Tuesday in Beijing but was hoping to return to Canada by Wednesday.
The stunt was being filmed for a Chinese television special.
Two performers were rushed to the hospital after falling to the stage in the middle of an acrobatic routine during the Zen Magic show at the David Saxe Theater. All reports are that the pair are fine and set to return to work if they haven’t already.
BEIRUT – The lawyer of a Lebanese TV psychic condemned to death for witchcraft by a Saudi court says he will not be beheaded.
The lawyer representing 46-year-old Ali Hussein Subat told The Associated Press that Lebanon’s Minister of Justice had been assured by the Saudi Ambassador to Beirut, Ali Asiri, that the execution would not take place.
Asiri told Okaz, however, that the two countries were continuing to coordinate over the case of Subat, whose death sentence had been overturned in order to “give him the opportunity to repent”.
“We look at the issue from a humanitarian point of view, but we cannot interfere with the rulings of the Kingdom’s judiciary,” Asiri said Wednesday.
Asiri’s comments followed his meeting with Minister of Justice Ibrahim Najjar during which judicial relations between the two countries were discussed along with the drawing up of a bilateral judicial agreement.
Saudi Gazette reported in January that the Court of Cassation in Makkah had overturned the death sentence and that if Subat repented his case would be reviewed by the General Court for a lighter punishment.
“If he does not, the Court of Cassation will approve the death penalty,” a court statement said at the time.
Subat was arrested by the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Madina in May 2008 and sentenced to death the following November.
He had been in the Kingdom to perform Umrah.
No matter what you think of television psychics, this is scary stuff.
We ask the questions on everyone’s mind after Magic-Con. Is there going to be a Magic-Con 2011? Where is it going to be held? Who is going to be the guest of honor? Did the conference make money? PLUS we answered questions sent in on the theory11 boards from some of the top speakers at the Con. What’s the one book R. Paul Wilson would force you to read? What’s the biggest reaction Chris Kenner has ever received? Does Bill Kalush think the impending singularity will damage magic beyond comprehension?
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We’d like to offer our support to UK magician Chris Cox who got into a car accident with his crew yesterday. He posted the above picture on his Twitter. He (UPDATE: and his crew) got out with only minor cuts and bruises but we wish him the best.
UPDATE: Find the address to send well wishes in the comments section on this post
Tom Mullica has been diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia and is currently undergoing chemotherapy treatment. This comes from an email to Dodd Vickers at the Magic Newswire who had hoped to interview the legendary performer.
The National Association for Campus Activities (or NACA) conference wrapped up yesterday and Boston and with it, many magicians who count colleges as a main source of income again scattered across this great nation. Some folks happened to do it easier than others, just ask Alain Nu who posted this on his Facebook…
hit ice in a snowstorm on 95 south heading home from Boston today. Spun 360 degrees with several cars all around me as I swerved across three lanes and over a median strip without hitting a single car. Drove a rental the rest of the way home. Surreal… and on many different levels… glad to be home. We’ll see about my poor car later in the week…
We are very happy that Alain is safe but to everyone else making a living on the easier seaboard in the post-Snowmaggeddon era, please be careful.
