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| Some Kind of Bizarre |
My father, Li’l Tom Hardy, America’s Foremost Psychic Entertainer, used to say, “there’s two kind of bizarre: the kind you’d pay 25 cents to see at a sideshow, and the kind of bizarre that you would pay $30,000.00 to buy a house in a different neighborhood to avoid.”
Home prices have gone up since then but his saying still rings with the resounding dong of a bell that is built to make a “dong” sound.
In today’s Magic News we have the ends of the spectrum of bizarre magic. One end you’d pay for, the other you’d pay to avoid.
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In Mount Vernon, Illinois, William E. Smith a/k/a “Dr. Strange” of the famous “Dr. Strange’s Magic Show” was arrested for illegally videotaping juveniles. The local authorities say they are not familiar with Dr. Strange’s act but “have learned that he travels with the act to wherever he can get booked and may have performed out of state as well as in other parts of Illinois.”
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| The Evil Eye |
Dr. Strange was arrested in June by the Saline County Sheriff’s Department after the family who took him in and gave him a place to stay discovered his freakish videotaping habit. According to the Sheriff’s Office, one of the members of the family was a magician and took pity on the 56 year-old man after learning Dr. Strange had lost his home.
An adult in the household found the video camera and tapes. “They knew him, they thought he was a nice guy,” Deputy Jones said. “And then this happens.”
No sexual acts appeared on the tapes confiscated by the sheriff’s department. Dr. Strange was released on bail. A raid of his former home produced tapes but they did not depict “specific sexual acts” but do show more than one juvenile and are being called “improper.” He said it isn’t clear if the juveniles knew they were taped.
The Sheriff’s office did not comment specifically on the tapes’ contents but “said it was ‘pretty disgusting’ to have to review them. He said he did not want to reveal yet how many juveniles were shown on the tapes. The review of the tapes is incomplete, he said, but so far no adults have appeared in them. The investigation continues.”
Mount Vernon police are asking anyone with information about Smith or these charges to contact the detective division at (618) 242-2131 or (618) 242-0215.
Read the full article here
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