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Hi,

I'd not normally recommend the method I'm about to describe, but an occurence on Saturday has made me think about this subject a fair bit.

I was heckled on Saturday in a pub in East London by a very large man with no brain. His friends jumped on his bandwagon and soon I was being gang-heckled by a bunch of street-thugs....abandon ship?! No.
In fact I wasn't even performing to them when they were heckling/hurling abuse (I was performing to some delightfully attractive ladies, quite clearly a cause for the men's animosity).
I offered to show the thugs a trick, so that at least they could have something in particular to heckle me about, and I went into an ambitious card routine (which I hasten to add I executed perfectly...) and they were still completely underwhelmed, refusing blind to be impressed at all. (Certianly not in front of the ladies).
At this point I thought it probably best to just make my excuses and move on, but then I thought again. I pulled my thought-transmitter from my pocket, and told the hecklers' front-man to write down a country....
Bish-Bash-Bosh...the man had to sit down when I got it right, he was beside himself, and the whole group were harranging me with questions about how I knew, and how they learn the psychological techniques that I used. "You can't learn anything like that from a book" I said.

I would not normally advocate using mentalism just to turn the tables like this, but as Judo has taught us, the more energy that goes into a (verbal) assault, the more energy you have to throw back at them in the form of an innocent looking notepad wallet and a healthy portion of BS.

that's fantastic
does this justify me pickpocketing annoying spectators?
similar situation, i was performing for a girl in a club when her boyfriend comes over VERY unimpressed so i thought i'd run a trick at him, again, a ACR, he didn't seem massivly impressed so to finish it off i put a card down in the table and covered it with "my" wallet. upon revealing that it was his card now under the wallet he discovered it was actually his wallet too. he was SERIOUS unimpressed so i hightailed to it safety....
(i've never felt justified for things like this)