Watch the incredible contortionist Sofie Dossi, age 14

She’s also not the first bow shooting contortionist on a GT show to sweep the bow in un-safe directions - she may have taken the idea from watching other performers (which, she has stated, is where she got the idea for shooting the bow in the first place.)

Famous last words… Unlikely? I’ll buy that. But “no way”? That kind of thinking is how people get killed.

OT:
Well, frankly, I’m less surprised by her aiming the bow at the host and camera man, and the sweep of the general direction of the judges and audience, than I am of all the on-stage fire effects on AGT and BGT. A regular theater company can’t even get the fire marshal to approve a single candle on stage, but these producers get massive burns approved - and even a performer’s home brew flame thrower that throws 15 foot blasts of flame. Granted, one hopes that the state of the art stages have fire suppression personel and equipment that matches the scale of the effects, but even so, given the bad history of fires in theaters, my attention is still yanked out of the narrative when the fire effects get large.

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