Blows Glass Globe Around Cats (Jan, 1932)
Blows Glass Globe Around Cats
TO WIN a bet, Dick Manley, California glass blower, performed an unprecedented glass blowing stunt. He placed three kittens in a glass tube and within three minutes fashioned it into a perfect 26-inch globe with the kittens inside and unharmed. A small hole admitted air.
Shades of Bonsai Kitten?
Um… how did he get the kittens OUT?
I was wondering the same thing…
How did he keep the cats from bursting into flames as glass is only fluid at very high tempuratures.
them’s four kittenses!
What kind of sicko even makes this bet? “HEY, bet I can blow a suffocating glass ball around a litter of kittens after I place them in a glass tube…” “Bet you can’t…”
And the kittens lives are never the same…
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Do I see four kittens in the globe?
Some people just have too much time on their hands…
damn I see 4 kittens, this is so funny article
And the kittens cooperated with him? Or were they sedated
I’m still wondering exactly how he did this, sedated kittens or not. Sedated would mean extra, awkwardly shaped, weight while trying to blow the glass. Non-sedated would… Well, kittens are quite active.
a wonderful gag
to get the kittens out, he probably would score the glass all around the circumference and then gently break it in half.
or just leave them in there, and enlarge the air hole enough to put food in.
How many kittens did he go through until he perfected the technique?