• Palm Beach Post: “Magician David Copperfield robbed after show at Kravis Center” (via Kottke)

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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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.

I can’t quite tell if this is the coolest thing ever or an act of supreme dickwadery. It worked, so it’s cool.

But if I was one of the women he was with I’d be wondering, “Yo! Magic boy! Why don’t you send some of that friggin’ legerdemain this way? Dickwad.”

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