Posted on 05/10/2006 11:44:03 AM PDT by Liberal Classic
He made 13 people disappear into thin air during his Kravis Center show Sunday night, but magician David Copperfield couldn't duplicate the feat with armed teens who robbed him and two women near the venue two hours later.
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The illusionist and assistants Cathy Daly and Mia Volmut were walking near CityPlace toward their tour bus parked at the Kravis when thugs approached them about 11:15 p.m. The group had gone to a steakhouse for dinner after Copperfield's sixth and last show here.
According to the police report, this is what happened next: The Malibu pulled up behind the group, and two of the four young men in the car came out holding handguns. One ordered Daly to "give me what you have." Daly handed over $400 from her pockets. Riley, meanwhile, allegedly stuck a gun in Volmut's face and asked for her purse, and she, too, gave it up. In it were 200 euros, $100, her passport, plane tickets and a Razr cellphone.
When Copperfield's turn came, Riley was bamboozled.
Copperfield told Page Two he pulled out all of his pockets for Riley to see he had nothing, even though he had a cellphone, passport and wallet stuffed in them.
"Call it reverse pickpocketing," Copperfield said.
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Copperfield read the license plate to Daly as she called 911. Daly also described the suspects to the operator as "very urban-like" and cops pulled over the car at 45th Street and Broadway at 11:25 p.m. Copperfield and the women were taken quickly to the location in a squad car, and they identified the handcuffed youths as the robbers. The loot was recovered.
Copperfield said police told him the teens may have been involved in five other armed robberies last week but authorities lacked an accurate description.
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watch me make your wallet disappear
Well, shucks. I searched for Copperfield. Delete this as a dupe.
Dang, ya gotta be quick on FR. :)
"very urban-like"
Possibly the least-helpful description ever.
As for robbing Copperfield...those guys are lucky he didn't just teleport them into space.
Mine, too! Better yet, I'd like to hear of a couple of "urban youth" trying this with Chuck Norris.
I'll bet over the years people watching his show have felt robbed.
...other than a fifteen foot long multi-colored scarf. At which point he was shot.
Maybe it didn't really happen and the poster just thinks he saw it :')
Hey, my wife must be a magician, cause she does that every payday. (ducks)
My wife and I were at one of his shows that same day .... we wondered why he just didn't make the robbers disappear...as he did to others not an hour previous.
Guess he needs all those big steel structure gizmoes and scantily dressed women to pull off a trick like that though....
Think of how cool it would have been if they were suddenly to appear in a skin head rally or something.
And how "urban" could they be if they didn't just reach into his pocket and empty them like professional stick up artists?
He got robbed by amatures, now he's gloating about how he hid his money from them. If he weren't such a lib hypocrite, he'd have GIVEN his money to these "disadvantaged youth".
His best trick was getting Claudia Schiffer to marry him.
Back in my college days I worked as a stage hand. I helped with the load-out of his set after one performance and got to see how his props were built. We signed a contract that we'd never divulge this information, but how are they gonna find me on the Internet? Anyway, most of his illusions are pulled off by...
Excuse me, I'm having a coughing fit....I'm going to get some water...I'll be ri
Geez... what'd he ever do to you? :-)
Illusionist Tricks Armed Robbers(David Copperfield)
Posted on 04/26/2006 12:29:37 PM PDT by freepatriot32
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