Posey Straitjacket

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A Posey Straitjacket is a type of straitjacket used primarily for the mentally insane. Featuring four backstraps, an arm loop, a crotch strap, arm straps and self-tightening clasps, a Posey Straitjacket is considered to be the most difficult commercially available straitjacket to escape from. There are only a handful of people in the world who can actually escape from real straitjackets. A lot of magicians claim they can, but generally they are not wearing genuine straitjackets. As such, a Posey Straitjacket is the only one permitted for use in world record attempts.

[edit] World Records

While some go for size or endurance, Australia's Ben Bradshaw goes for speed, having broken two records on Seven's Guinness World Records TV show – an Australian production that debuted in 2005. An award-winning magician who's been wriggling out of straitjackets since he was 14, Bradshaw, 23, was able to throw it to the ground in a time of 50.08 seconds on June 19, 2005, beating the previous 81.24-second record set by David Straitjacket five months earlier on January 8, 2005.