I've seen J-3 Cubs, Super Cub, Tigers and Stampes used for crazy flying in the UK - two of the regulars in the last couple of decades have been Barry Tempest and Brendan O'Brien, who is still at it. He was once supposed to have "stolen" the aircraft and had to wait for a landing aircraft, during which time two coppers caught up with him - which wasn't part of the act...
The Tiger Club wrecked a few aircraft with the act in the 1960s, but they mostly reappeared in due course and the pilots seemed to survive relatively unscathed. Look for the photo of Lewis Benjamin two feet off the ground in Super Tiger "The Canon" at Sywell in 1963.