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Ugandan police seize magic trick from preacher


KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan police are holding a Ghanaian preacher over a stage magic device they fear may dupe people into believing they have experienced miracles.

Customs officials seized the Electric Touch device -- which magicians use to give small electric shocks to volunteers -- from "Prophet" Obiri Yeboah at the airport last week, the state owned New Vision daily reported on Tuesday.

The pastor heads one of many Pentecostal churches in Uganda, receiving large sums of money from congregations seeking miracle cures for diseases or help with financial problems.

The Electric Touch device is usually sold in magic shops alongside card tricks, magic coins and disappearing balls.

"With a simple touch, make a fluorescent bulb glow on and off at your command, make confetti move, charge a spoon and watch as it shocks a volunteer!" says one online magic shop selling the device.

"People could be duped to think it is a miracle," the New Vision quoted Civil Aviation Authority security chief Herman Owomugisha as saying.

Officials are worried about the proliferation of "miracle" churches in Uganda, many of which claim to cure HIV/AIDS.

Priceless!

Thanks for the guffaws Mr. B!

Ha ha! Great story!
Conman or convincing mentalist with good patter?


You decide!

Lord Freddie wrote:Ha ha! Great story!
Conman or convincing mentalist with good patter?

What - the Ugandan priest, or Craig?

robstanley1 wrote:

Lord Freddie wrote:Ha ha! Great story!
Conman or convincing mentalist with good patter?

What - the Ugandan priest, or Craig?

Hey... I resemble that remark!

I love the cat picture - there's a local Priest who looks remarkably like the lighter one.....

There's a guy on those awful God TV type channels called "Prophet Peter Popoff" or something. He promises to send out "annointed" water for free. So always interested in weird stuff, I phoned up for my annointed water. It arrived, along with a letter promising me just about every miracle in God's kingdom as long as I sent him £12.

I didn't send the money (obviously - you can't trick a trickster). So more letters arrived. And more. And more. At its peak it was like that scene in the first Harry Potter film when all those letters are arriving through the letterbox, the windows, and the chimney. Each letter promised more and bigger miracles as well as asking for varying sums of money.

3 months later the letters appear to have dried up. I think Prophet Peter Popoff has given up on me. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

What happened Peter? You don't write, you don't call...

If you check out Banachek's web site you'll find out what happened to dear old Mr. Popoff...

Craig Browning wrote::lol: If you check out Banachek's web site you'll find out what happened to dear old Mr. Popoff...

That was great! I can't understand how people don't realise what they're being told is stuff they told someone else a few hours earlier though.

MattVonFat wrote:

Craig Browning wrote::lol: If you check out Banachek's web site you'll find out what happened to dear old Mr. Popoff...

That was great! I can't understand how people don't realise what they're being told is stuff they told someone else a few hours earlier though.

And that's exactly why people like Paul and I manage to keep working...

themagicwand wrote:There's a guy on those awful God TV type channels called "Prophet Peter Popoff" or something. He promises to send out "annointed" water for free. So always interested in weird stuff, I phoned up for my annointed water. It arrived, along with a letter promising me just about every miracle in God's kingdom as long as I sent him £12.

I didn't send the money (obviously - you can't trick a trickster). So more letters arrived. And more. And more. At its peak it was like that scene in the first Harry Potter film when all those letters are arriving through the letterbox, the windows, and the chimney. Each letter promised more and bigger miracles as well as asking for varying sums of money.

3 months later the letters appear to have dried up. I think Prophet Peter Popoff has given up on me. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

What happened Peter? You don't write, you don't call...

You should put them on the web!

Tomo wrote:
You should put them on the web!

Yeah but I bet Popoff's lawyers have sharp teeth. I'd rather not upset them myself. Besides, old Peter is priceless and despite what happened with Randi (it was Randi wasn't it? My memory is a bit foggy of the participants in his "debunking"), he's still working his cotton socks off. I bear him no malice. I've spent many a merry hour enjoying his TV "shows". In fact, any mentalist could learn a thing or two from his live performances. He certainly knows how to put on a show.

I saw this program on sky, about humans, and powers we may have, like ancient knowledge etc... And there was this man from some remote island in asia, who was a master of some sort of religion, you know all that chi energy.

He was amazing, while only wearing pants (underwear), he could shock people with electricity well chi. Like a constant flow of energy from his hands into his patients body , he heals people with this chi energy.

Also he could push a plastic rod through a wooden table, any table anywhere, he even did it in a resteraunt and he did all other sorts of things, like used chi energy (while naked) and outside to set a newspaper on fire.

A team of people from america was there trying to look for trickery, like searching for metal objects under his skin or other objects around the room, so they took him to random places and he could do all these things anywhere.

Apparently he has been healing (successfully) people in his town for decades.

It was unbelievable, the team from america with all there equipment could not find any trickery. Was amazing, i believe there is things out there we dont know about. I guess with our new western ways of thinking we dont pay attention to the ancient wisdom from other parts of the world.

But there are alot of con artists out there, these days its possible to make out you can do miracles. So we are right to be wary

If you can find a video on that, I'd love to see it. It sounds fascinating.

My mum's friend wrote: Sandra is really good. She called me out on stage and sat me down and I was thinking yeah mate you arent going get one over on me, so I sat there i had a vision and Sandra asked me about this vision it was a woma. And the woman said one word "Bob" and i was thinking who is Bob? and Sandra asked if the woman said any thing and I said "bob" but i dont know a bob. But Sandra pointed to a man across the way and said "Thats Bob he is my husband".

Beats Bobs your uncle! if you are willing to belive then you wil. Shes one of these people with a great chunk of amber rounder he neck and the crystals and all that thinks Colin fry is great. She all so said "I dont trust magicians I know its a trick.

Some people eh? Give her daughter a deck of ESP cards and perform Syboilogic on her. because the duaghter matched up the cards I layed down she suddenly has ESP and I dont have funny cards....