Please Don't be Stunned for too long
It was supposed to be an innocent Halloween party acting stunt in front of an audience. Just to scare everyone one on Halloween night – but not for real. But it didn’t turn out that way. I was in the audience and saw the fake noose which an actor put around his neck. Most of the audience already knew about the hidden body harness that was supposed to hold up the actor when he jumped, so they kept grinning to themselves, saying, “How clever.” Even when the chair was kicked out from under the actor, most of the audience never flinched… …until the body harness failed… …and suddenly the fake hanging became a real one. The grins on everyone’s faces were replaced with a strange ashen color. And the look of paralyzing shock was on everyone’s faces. The paralysis of shock lasts for different amounts of time for different people… But for the actor who was literally being choked, Every second of inaction in the audience meant one giant leap closer to death. But then suddenly someone at the bac