It's hard out there for a magician

David Copperfield was mugged by three armed teenagers. He was with two assistants who gave up all their money, but when he was asked for his wallet, the magician showed the muggers that in fact all of his pockets were empty. Despite having a cell phone, passport, and wallet in them.

Uh huh.

First, how stupid were these armed teenagers to let a magician turn out his own pockets?

But anyway, who really believes the story anyway? David Copperfield was mugged by three armed teenagers. No problem there. But the only other witnesses to his feat of magic--which he called "reverse pickpocketing"--were two assistants whom he pays to keep secrets. Maybe I'm a little cynical but this sounds like a great PR piece. Like how he made Claudia Schiffer's french fries disappear on their first date. We like to think magicians are magical all the time, even in their every day life and that they find certain situations where magic is the best solution, like grocery shopping or dating or defeating muggers.

So I'm not buying it. Because if he really were magical, he would have just made their guns disappear. Like that would have been so much harder than making the Statue of Liberty disappear.