We should all go out as well as William Ellsworth Robinson did: In 1918, the legendary American magician (with the stage name Chung Ling Soo -- these were racist times) ended the famed Bullet Catch trick by dying. He caught the bullet. You're not supposed to catch the bullet. Misdirection and sleight of hand are supposed to take care of the bullet, but throughout history, bullets have found their way into magicians who've attempted the Bullet Catch. It's a magic trick with a body count. In the past 400 years it has claimed three to 12 lives (the true number is fuzzy, because of the magic involved), and its history... More >>>