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In the movie, magicians are putting on a show, and for their last magic trick for the night, they decide to rob a bank. They ask anyone in the audience if they manage a bank, and a lot of audience members put up their hands, since it's a big show. They pick one of them to come up on stage, tell the name of the bank, and then say they are going to rob it.
The then actually rob his bank. and they show it being done on the giant TV screen on the stage, for all the audience to see. They show the money in the vault on the TV disappear from his bank, and then re-appear on the stage, and falls for all the audience members to collect.
Afterwards the police investigate but they say they cannot prosecute the magicians because they did not know how they did it. But this is the part of the movie I had trouble making sense of, cause they have all this other overwhelming evidence. The magicians not only confessed to robbing the bank on stage, but they actually showed the money disappear from the vault on tv, and have it reappear, on their stage for everyone to collect.
That may not be enough on their own, but the court can subpoena all of the witnesses at the show to testify to what they show and to turn over the evidence that they collected, and the serial numbers on the money will match those of the records at the bank.
Plus the bank manager will testify to seeing his own money disappearing from the bank. So why didn't the police just do that to build a case, instead of... not doing anything at all?
In the movie, magicians are putting on a show, and for their last magic trick for the night, they decide to rob a bank. They ask anyone in the audience if they manage a bank, and a lot of audience members put up their hands, since it's a big show. They pick one of them to come up on stage, tell the name of the bank, and then say they are going to rob it.
The then actually rob his bank. and they show it being done on the giant TV screen on the stage, for all the audience to see. They show the money in the vault on the TV disappear from his bank, and then re-appear on the stage, and falls for all the audience members to collect.
Afterwards the police investigate but they say they cannot prosecute the magicians because they did not know how they did it. But this is the part of the movie I had trouble making sense of, cause they have all this other overwhelming evidence. The magicians not only confessed to robbing the bank on stage, but they actually showed the money disappear from the vault on tv, and have it reappear, on their stage for everyone to collect.
That may not be enough on their own, but the court can subpoena all of the witnesses at the show to testify to what they show and to turn over the evidence that they collected, and the serial numbers on the money will match those of the records at the bank.
Plus the bank manager will testify to seeing his own money disappearing from the bank. So why didn't the police just do that to build a case, instead of... not doing anything at all?
