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Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    "Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of the TEDGlobal 2013 audience, showing how the flaws in our perception make it possible to swipe a wallet and leave it on its owner's shoulder while they remain clueless."
Lawrence Hrubes

Video of Apollo Robbins Pickpocketing : The New Yorker - 1 views

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    "In the January 7th issue of the magazine, Adam Green profiles the pickpocket Apollo Robbins. Green writes: "Robbins, who is thirty-eight and lives in Las Vegas, is a peculiar variety-arts hybrid, known in the trade as a theatrical pickpocket. Among his peers, he is widely considered the best in the world at what he does, which is taking things from people's jackets, pants, purses, wrists, fingers, and necks, then returning them in amusing and mind-boggling ways.""
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