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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20130715:10:45:00

he s no ordinary pickpocket here. we re up all nightline with abc s bill weir. reporter: if you happen across a man named apollo robbins. chances are, he ll ask to show you a few magic tricks. if you move it, you can make it look like it flies across. reporter: but what he s really doing, he s stealing your stuff. your watch. your wallet. your phone. because apollo robbins is a close-up magician that just happens to be the world s greatest pickpocket. that we know of. there s other masters out there. but this is the rare thief that makes a living by stealing your stuff and always giving it back. thank you very much. reporter: and so, he developed an act. and moved to vegas. where caesar s palace paid him to entertain guests this way. it was like pickpocket college. and one night, he got a crack at president jimmy carter.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20130715:10:46:00

i pickpocketed a team of secret service agents. took their credentials, and the itinerary where they re taking carter to and the keys to the motorcade. reporter: after that, he got calls from law enforcement types and neuroscientists and tv producers who helped him produce brain games on nat geo. when the human mind is concentrating on movement, it misses even aggressive stimulus, like someone unclasping your watch. take another look. the magic is and excuse to touch the mark. a noble pickpocket would probably snatch it off your wrist in a crowd. so, zip your purse. apollo says and know that the ear buds tell a thief where you keep your expensive phone. and if you re in a sketchy neighborhood, put your wallet in a coffee cup. but he says the best defense is the knowledge that you re vulnerable to a thief with the right skills. the person that knows they re

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130529:09:40:00

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130529:09:40:00
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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20130502:10:35:00

of both. brian: that i would be chosen to do the interview. alisyn: no. steve: we ve been doing the show for 16 years, first time i ve heard anybody described as a cross-dressing pickpocket on times square. any way, 25 minutes before the top of the hour. we ve got headlines. she was missing for 11 years, even declared dead at one point. you know what? she turned up alive. brenda heist approached police in florida and explained she abandoned her two kid in the spur of the moment leaving behind her old life in pennsylvania to become a bum. she wandered from place to place, eating out of garbage cans. she was going through a divorce at the time and her then-husband was considered a suspect in her disappearance. there were people in the neighborhood who would not allow their children to play with my children because of what they perceived i might be. steve: that s the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20130502:10:26:00

them from making stops that are good stops. brian: you can t say there s a cross-dressing pickpocket at times square. go get her or him? you cannot say things like that. you can t say anything about race? you can t say anything about color? you can t talk about religion, ethnicity? right. brian: how do you describe? a human being is running away with my wallet? it sound ridiculous because it is ridiculous. you can say the person was a male. you can say that the suspect was a female. it s if the person walks with a limp, you cannot say that physical attribute about that individual because that could be considered profiling. it has to be one of the most ridiculous laws i ve heard of. brian: what kind of power does a police force like the nypd have when politicians try to be politically correct? unfortunately they don t have a lot of power. police officers, in the

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