Celebrity Magician Paul Daniels chops off finger with circular saw while trying to build SAFETY DEVI - Polidicks

[b]Celebrity magician feared his magic career was over By EMILY ALLEN[/b] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/20/article-2089424-0C394D21000005DC-277_468x494.jpg[/img] [quote]He is used to sawing his wife Debbie McGee in half during magic tricks but pint-sized magician Paul Daniels recently found himself on the wrong end of the blade. The celebrity magician thought his career was over when his fingers slipped into the teeth of a circular saw while he was trying to build a safety device for the power tool. Recalling the dramatic moment, Mr Daniels said he was approaching the 'fiddly bit' when his hand slipped. 'Very quickly and without any warning the piece of timber seemed to leap and pulled my left hand fingers into the teeth of the circular saw', he said. The accident happened while he was working in his garden shed, at his home in Wargrave, Berkshire. His wife Debbie McGee was working on her local radio show at the time. Despite being in agony, and with blood pouring from his hand, the magician managed to hit the stop button, run to the car and drive himself to hospital in nearby Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 25 minutes away. He said: 'I must have looked a weird site doubled over with my face all screwed up from the pain and, I admit it, the pain.' As he drove through Henley-on-Thames he was held up by a slow-moving car. 'I jumped out and scared the hell out of the young woman,' said Mr Daniels, 73. I dived back into my car, mounted the pavement and went around her on the left to get to Townlands Hospital, where I dumped my car in the entrance and staggered through the door. 'My head was full of the pain and the possible thought that it was the end of my magic.' He added that he tried to stay 'chipper' as his hand was examined but could hear phrases like 'bone is shattered, ground up, nail gone, might be able to save the finger.' Staff at Townlands Hospital patched him up and sent him for plastic surgery at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire. 'It's all a bit of a mess,' he said. 'I've lost the top of my ring on my left hand. I'm not getting married again. I may try to get a prosthetic finger,' he joked. My forefinger and my pinky was also damaged but it is recovering very well. 'By a bit of magic it missed by middle finger and then took off the top of my ring finger.' His fingers are still swollen and heavily bandaged. He said: 'However, I feel lucky as the surgeon told me the worst finger to lose was the little finger because it is the one used to grip. Fortunately I've only lost part of it.' Mr Daniels vowed to be more careful when he begins making a guillotine for his next act. He said: 'I faced the saw for the first time yesterday afternoon. It was a bit spooky. Debbie said: ''You will never go in that shed again''. 'But I said: ''I'm going to be the most careful woodworker ever from now on''. 'Debbie was the best. Sadly she was not in the nurses uniform and suspenders though. Everyone who knows me cannot understand why she married me. She is just so good and so nice. She's a very caring person'. The TV celebrity said he will have to make some minor adjustments to his magic show following his injury on New Year's Day, but he said the audience would not notice. He said: 'I am already preparing things a bit differently as I don't know what I will be able to feel or what my grip will be like - and I am a magician who is ambidextrous. 'It's a lesson to us all that you should use a pusher rather then your hands.' His tour Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow begins on February 22 in Southsea, Portsmouth. He said: 'Some of the magic will be adjusted but the deception will remain the same. The show will be just as silly as it ever was.'[/quote] [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089424/Paul-Daniels-severs-finger-power-tool-trying-build-safety-device-machine.html]SOURCE[/url]

That saw didn't appreciate his magic.

He should have saw this coming.

I sat near this guy in a Little Chef once.

was ninja'd by ppV in the same minute.

This trick comes to mind. [video=youtube;ixBVaY8G4Ng]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixBVaY8G4Ng[/video]

So how about the trick where he slides his thumb off?