Dwarf + hoover + glue = trauma

[Gilps]

We've all done it

 

Fringe Festival Feck-up

 

Performer's sticky situation with a vacuum cleaner

 

SAM REEVES

 

A dwarf performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was rushed to hospital after he glued his privates to a vacuum cleaner.

 

Daniel Blackner – who performs in the Circus of Horrors as Captain Dan the Demon Dwarf – said the incident happened yesterday as he prepared for a show.

 

As part of the spectacle, the dwarf pulls a Henry vacuum cleaner across the stage attached to his penis. But a special attachment which helps connect the 42-year-old to the appliance came loose.

He decided to fix the broken apparatus with extra strong glue, but he left it to dry for only 20 seconds, instead of 20 minutes. This meant when he connected himself to the vacuum cleaner, the glue was not yet dry, and his penis was immediately stuck fast.

 

He was taken to the accident and emergency department of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where, he said, nurses struggled for an hour to free him.

 

Mr Blackner said: “It was the most embarrassing moment of my life when I got wheeled into a packed A&E with a vacuum attached to me.

 

“I just wished the ground could swallow me up. Luckily, they saw me quickly so the embarrassment was short lived.”

 

A hospital source confirmed that they treated the performer. But a spokesman for the Royal Infirmary said he could not comment on individual cases

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