Posted on 04/26/2006 12:29:37 PM PDT by freepatriot32
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - David Copperfield has magically escaped getting robbed.
The 49-year-old illusionist was walking with two female assistants to their tour bus after his show Sunday at a performing arts center when four teens pulled up in a black car, a police report said.
Two armed robbers allegedly got out of the car and demanded the group's belongings. One woman handed over $400 from her pockets and the other gave up her purse with 200 euros, $100, her passport, plane tickets and a cell phone. Copperfield refused to empty his pockets, the report said.
Copperfield says he turned his pockets inside out to reveal nothing in them, even though he was carrying his passport, wallet and cell phone.
"Call it reverse pickpocketing," Copperfield told The Palm Beach Post for Wednesday's editions.
Copperfield read the license plate number of the car to an assistant while she called 911, the report said.
Four teenagers were arrested and charged with armed robbery. They were held without bond, police said. The women's property was recovered.
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He would have bored them to tears with his Total Gym infomercial and robbed them of 49.95 down and 16 easy payments of 99.90 after 30 days.
"Hey Rock! Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat!" - Bullwinkle Moose.
would you be that chick who slowed down to take a look at me?!?!?
LOL!!!!
urban-like = person wearing thug rapper uniform but having no rhythm?
smart magicians pay their assistants very well. For one thing in most stage tricks it's the assistants that do most of the real work, and a lot of it is really uncomfortable (the hiding holes for various disappearances/ transformations tend to be rather tiny). For another they know how all the tricks work, there's nothing quite like a disgruntled assistant to help some other magician's career.
urban= pc black
I thought it was a 2-ear elephant.
You mean he just didn't disappear ?
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These PC words get me confused all the time
Oh that's nothing. The new Sheriff on Blazing Saddles held himself hostage and freed himself from a town full of armed vigilantes.
Or Jack Bauer. Jack Bauer could strangle you with a cordless phone.
It's the first crowd he's fooled in years.
I think it was a David Copperfield impersonator,
the real David Copperfield would have made the getaway car disappear while they were looking at him.
On the subject of the assistants, remember who David used to be married to, He probablby has some babe assistants for his majic show.
Nope, David uses female assistants. Very attractive ones too, and considering how much he makes, it's not out of the question for them to be carrying around 7 bills.
Jack Bauer is the reason zeros equal nothing and have holes in them.
Also, the assistant's stage presence and looks are critical in drawing the audience's attention away from the magician when he makes his hidden move.
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