The Rubberboy (Daniel Browning Smith)
Five time Guiness Record holder, The rubberboy
is the most flexible man alive and the most famous contortionist.
He has been in many professional basketball or baseball games and on The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ESPN's Sports Center, Oprah Winfrey,
Ripley's Believe It or Not, Cirque du Soleil, Best Damn Sports Show Period, The Discovery Channel, Men in Black 2, HBO's Carnivale, and CSI: NY and American got a talent.
He dislocates his arms to crawl through an unstrung tennis racquet. He performs contortion handstands and unique acrobatics.
Mister Eat-it-All (Michel Lotito)
Michel Lotito (born 1950) is a French entertainer, famous as the
consumer of undigestables, and is known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mister
Eat-it-all). Lotito's performances are the consumption of metal, glass,
rubber and so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150,
and smaller items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed. The
aircraft took roughly two years to be 'eaten' from 1978 to 1980. He
began eating unusual material while a child and has been performing
publicly since 1966.
Lotito does not often suffer from ill-effects due to his diet, even
after the consumption of materials usually considered poisonous. When
performing he consumes around a kilogram of material daily, preceding it
with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water during
the 'meal'. He apparently possesses a stomach and intestine with walls
of twice the expected thickness, and his digestive acids are, allegedly,
unusually powerful, allowing him to digest a certain portion of his
metallic meals.
The Torture King (Tim Cridland)
Tim Cridland doesn't seem to feel pain like the rest of people. He
astounded everyone by pushing needles into his arms without flinching
and he now performs a terrifying act for audiences all over America.
Scientific tests have shown that Tim can tolerate much higher levels of
pain than are humanly possible. He explains that, by using mind over
matter, he is able to push skewers through his body and put up with
extreme heat and cold unharmed - but to do this safely he has
extensively studied human anatomy, because puncturing an artery could be
fatal.
The Magnetic Man (Liew Thow Lin)
Liew Thow Lin, a 70-year-old retired contractor in Malaysia, recently
made news for pulling a car twenty meters along a level surface by means
of an iron chain hooked to an iron plate on his midriff. He says that
he discovered he had the amazing ability to make objects stick
"magnetically" to his skin, and now he's added car-pulling to his
repertoire. After reading an article about a family in Taiwan who
possessed such power, he says he took several iron objects and put them
on his abdomen, and to his surprise, all the objects including an iron,
stuck on his skin and didn't fall down. Since this "gift'' is also
present in three of his sons and two grandchildren, he figures it's
hereditary.
The Lion Whisperer (Kevin Richardson)
Animal behaviourist Kevin Richardson says he relies on instinct to win
the hearts and form an intimate bond with the big cats. He can spend the
night curled up with them without the slightest fear of being attacked.
His magic works not only work for lions but other animals such as cheetahs,
leopards and even hyenas do not hold a threat against him. Lions are
his favourites and its a wonder how he can play, carress, cuddle with
them whose teeth are sharp enough to bite through thick steel. Its a
dangerous job but to Kevin, its more of a passion for him.
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