Editing Straitjacket (section)

===Notable escapes===

Straitjacket escape is one of the most sensational and famous magicians' tricks; it was a staple in illusionist [[Harry Houdini]]'s act. Thus, new world records for straitjacket escape are constantly being attempted, in various ways and with various degrees of difficulty added. Some of the more newsworthy attempts and successes include:

*On the 1980s weekly television show ''[[Dick Clark's Live Wednesday]]'', [[Steve Baker (illusionist)|Steve "Mr. Escape" Baker]] successfully escaped from two straitjackets while hanging upside down over the stage.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
*On ''[[Mindfreak]]'', [[Criss Angel]] set a world record when he escaped from two straitjackets at once while hanging from a crane over [[Bourbon Street]] in New Orleans.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}
*On October 8, 2007, American Cliff Gerstman escaped from a straitjacket while floating in zero gravity. The escape was performed in an airplane flown by [[Zero G Inc.]] and sponsored by [[Northrop Grumman]]. This was the world's first zero gravity straitjacket escape and took 40 seconds to complete.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
*On September 4, 2010, on the Fox News channel show ''[[Fox & Friends]]'', Alexanderia the Great set a record for an extreme straitjacket escape.  She escaped a regulation straitjacket secured with 50 feet of 1/4 inch chain and 10 padlocks in 2:37.<ref>The [http://urdb.org/search/escape Universal Records Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417045814/http://urdb.org/search/escape |date=2021-04-17 }} officiated over the record.</ref>
* On July 23, 2013, Alexanderia the Great performed an underwater straitjacket escape in a small bullet-proof clear tank in full view for ''[[America's Got Talent]]'', live on stage at [[Radio City Music Hall]].<ref>Jason Hughes. 'America's Got Talent': [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/americas-got-talent-alexandra-escape-video_n_3642905.html Alexandria The Great Blows Crowd Away With Death-Defying Escape]</ref><ref>America's Got Talent 2013 - Season 8 - 034 - [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1cubwy_america-s-got-talent-2013-season-8-034-alexanderia-the-great-escape-artist-goes-under-water-in-chain_music Alexanderia the Great - Escape Artist Goes Under Water in Chains]</ref>
*The official "Fastest Escape from a Regulated Posey Straitjacket" is 2.84 seconds, set by Danilo Audiello at the Studio Fleming Medicina Generale, [[Foggia]], Italy, on 11 August 2014.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-escape-from-a-straitjacket/|title=Fastest escape from a straitjacket|work=Guinness World Records|access-date=2018-06-13|language=en-GB}}</ref>