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Daily Post
12 Dec 2000 When
the Lord Mayor of Liverpool met Paranormal Spoon bender Uri Geller he didn’t expect
to trigger a chain reaction, but Mayor Eddie Clein was astonished when later in
the evening the £500,000 ($800,000) piece of civic regalia he was wearing bent
and fell to pieces. It later transpired that six rivets holding the diamond-encrusted
Jewel of Liverpool treasure in its solid-gold casing had simultaneously come adrift.
The
visibly shocked Mayor said "I was just leaning forward to reach for the pepper
when I heard and felt a rattle and found the back of the Jewel hanging outward
and bending. It continued bending for a few minutes. My attendant
David Ramsey, who has looked after the Jewel for more than 20 years, said he could
not believe it had disintegrated because it had been as solid as a granite when
he put it around my neck. I know some people say Geller is a magician but I don’t.
I accept that he has psychic powers; he had not touched the jewel at any time." Geller,
54, was bending a spoon for Greater Manchester Chief Constable (Chief of Police)
David Wilmot when there was a shriek from the Lord Mayor’s table which was over
20 feet away from Geller’s table. Cllr
Clein took the jewel, which bears Liverpool’s coat of arms, to be repaired at
Liverpool jewellers William Pyke and Sons and they were also baffled. All the
rivets which hold the back plate on the jewel at the front had fallen out and
bent. Managing Director John Pyke said "I am a sceptic about this sort of thing
but what has happened to the jewel is difficult to explain. "You
might expect the odd rivet to fall out or come loose but for all of them to drop
out and bend at once is bizarre. We check the chains for the Lord Mayor regularly
and repair them. The damage is not great, it will probably only take a few days
to mend; it is just highly unusual and very strange. In my entire professional
life as a jeweller I have never ever seen anything like this." |
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