Audience Members Initially Thought Circus Accident Was Part of the Act

[Bee York]

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Authorities are trying to determine what caused a support frame to collapse during an aerial hair-hanging stunt during a circus performance Sunday, sending eight acrobats crashing to the ground.
The incident happened about 45 minutes into a performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus' legends show Blue Unit at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, R.I.
It was witnessed by an audience of about 3,900, many of them children.
"Everybody's doing fine, everybody's at the hospital, everybody's conscious, everybody's doing pretty well," Roman Garcia, general manager of the Legends show, said after the accident.

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This is the kind of shit you see in movies.

[url]http://abcnews.go.com/US/audience-members-initially-thought-circus-accident-part-act/story?id=23586020[/url]

[Rocâ„¢]

"Brenda, theres people dying, isn't that weird?"
"It's all part of the act Marty, shush!"

[kahgarak]

Glad they're okay.

[JennyC6]

The crowd thinking it's part of the show is to be expected, honestly. When your act revolves around telling Phyiscs to suck your left nut the crowd is bound to mistake a mishap for just something planned in the show. It happens all the time in events like this.

[Lowland]

I also remember a play where one of the actors suddenly suffered from a heart attack and collapsed, and the entire theatre believed it was part of the performance.

[Olliestoes]

[QUOTE=V12US;44728406]I also remember a play where one of the actors suddenly suffered from a heart attack and collapsed, and the entire theatre believed it was part of the performance.[/QUOTE]

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcE-XZEfeFs[/URL]

The most famous example I can think of is Tommy Cooper.

[Spazi]

Nothing unusual really. Accidents in performances have been mistaken for performance as long as performance art has existed.