Has anyone heard of this??

[trplnkl]

A person on the cruise roll call thread posted to me this storyhttp://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/local_magician_i_sent_myself_t.html from just over a year ago, they thought it made a funny story.

Has anyone heard about this first hand or know any other details?

 

[Leftinbuilding]

I highly doubt this happened. And their "proof", the video, has been removed. That looks like a pretty hefty crate. That, plus his weight? Looks like over 150 to me. Plus it would never fit into any "can" I've ever seen. Hoax.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Syracuse is a fairly good sized hub but not too big to where something like this would have gone not only unnoticed but unquestioned. This didn't happen.

 

[trplnkl]

I'm very skeptical as well, although I wouldn't go so far to say it didn't or couldn't happen. I highly doubt it would on the brown trucks, but there is such a thing as UPS Freight, they do have Air freight. The weight and size could go with them.
I just wanted to know if anyone had heard the "Story".

 

[Catatonic]

I just wanted to know if anyone had heard the "Story".

Not me.

 

[Camping Nana]

I'm very skeptical as well, although I wouldn't go so far to say it didn't or couldn't happen. I highly doubt it would on the brown trucks, but there is such a thing as UPS Freight, they do have Air freight. The weight and size could go with them.
I just wanted to know if anyone had heard the "Story".

"...... They say they successfully shipped Whitcomb overnight UPS from Syracuse to Las Vegas in November in a crate they built......"

Wouldn't have been UPS Freight...... Overnight ?

 

[dilligaf]

"...... They say they successfully shipped Whitcomb overnight UPS from Syracuse to Las Vegas in November in a crate they built......"

Wouldn't have been UPS Freight...... Overnight ?

I'm very skeptical as well, although I wouldn't go so far to say it didn't or couldn't happen. I highly doubt it would on the brown trucks, but there is such a thing as UPS Freight, they do have Air freight. The weight and size could go with them.
I just wanted to know if anyone had heard the "Story".

Sounds like the same thing to me.

 

[trplnkl]

Sounds like the same thing to me.

I think the website for UPS Freight says they have next day service, I could be wrong, but don't care enough to look it up again.

 

[Old International]

I think somebody Is pulling our legs.......

 

[satellitedriver]

The headline says it all.
Local magician: I sent myself to Las Vegas in a box.


Local, being the key word.
Most magicians make their living getting out of a box.
I wish the video was still available and I could break the magicians code and explain how this did not happen.

 

[trplnkl]

I think somebody Is pulling our legs.......

I have no doubt, but it's like a proxy leg pulling. The person that told me about it said up front that it was a story she heard and wanted to know if I had heard the story. I didn't buy it from the get-go but was trying to be nice. If I understand it right, the "magician" is her nephew and now he even says it was a hoax and didn't happen. For course, UPS threatened pressing charges too.