
Dumb and Disorderly: History’s Ridiculous Riots
Ridiculous Crime
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The Bottle Guy
The man in the bottle, or the bottle conjurer, as he was called, was all people were talking about. Newspapers wrote breathlessly about the bottle guy's absence and what that meant. Saterical prints were produced among them two characters: English credulity or you're all bottled. And this story goes to Europe where it became a great way for gullible people to laugh at how gullible they are.
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