A high school drop-out, Zancai formerly worked as a contractor before suffering a work-related injury in 2000 in which he fell a distance of 25 feet before landing on his back. Zancai spent 23 days in a coma and 17 days on life support as a result of the injury, and he continues to receive a monthly disability cheque from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board . Zancai initiated a strenuous self-rehabilitation program in response to his injuries. He developed a routine of doing pushups, working up to the point of performing thousands of pushups each day, attaining the physique of an amateur body builder. As a result of the injury, Zancai still suffers occasional loss of feeling in some parts of his body despite the fact that he has restored mobility in his limbs.

David Zancai (born May 7, 1968) is a street entertainer from Toronto, Ontario, in Canada. Zancai is known for his character Zanta: a modified Santa Claus that travels the streets of downtown Toronto doing pushups and shouting "yes yes yes" and "Merry Christmas". His costume consists of nothing but shorts, boots, and a red-and-white Santa hat, even during Toronto's harsh winters. He claims to perform this routine every day of the year except Christmas Day, and estimates he does 2,000 to 3,000 pushups per day. Zanta receives mixed responses to his Zanta character, and has been banned from several public areas around Toronto, including the Toronto Transit Commission.

For his first appearance as Zanta, Zancai showed up behind the street window of the CHUM-City Building and began performing. As a result of Citytv using streetscapes as backdrop to live news programming, Zancai was frequently seen in the background of the morning news and entertainment program Breakfast Television. Reportedly aggravated by Zancai's presence, CHUM filed a number of complaints which resulted in Zancai being banned from the area of the building. He violated this order, and as a result police banned him from the area south of College St. to King St., and from Yonge over to Spadina Ave.

Sign the petiton to keep Zanta on the streets to entertain Toronto.

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