Derren Brown - Abondoned Wallet Trick

[PopMami]

Really cool.

[AGgirldoll]

This is how I protect my house.

[MattProductionsInc]

Not only is he a master of the human mind, but he is also the master of perfect circles

[Passwordcracks]

Try this in south africa, the yellow circle will be gone too.

[LarryNikkoDavis]

The music is too peacefulk

[fredandbecca1013]

he is dumm

[Johnyschoice]

Do not try this at home :-D (or maybe do with an empty wallet which you wanna get rid off) This trick surely works in the centre of London - full of CCTV cameras and people (so you can't be sure if the owner is not watching). But it will not work in a place where people don't care about being caught. And it is not that people don't see it (they do, some even stare at it - look at the video) it's the circle, which makes you think that the wallet is there on purpose and someone is watching it.

[gjmantua]

try it in the Philippines, the circle will disappear and so is the wallet....

[VI6SIXNecrocide]

The big circle around it makes it look like an obvious trap - which is exactly what it is. I would pick it up, take the money out, then put it back...

[sor8an]

It's because theere are 4 cameras on it.

[bella27fille]

riiiiiight.. try doing this in a country with no education of CSI props. the circle would be like a big ad sign: "pick me up!"

[aaron8544]

2:29 titles and graphic sequences by SWIFTY, i wonder if that's the same swifty that play''s WoW.

[CholeraZajeliMojNick]

I'll find you, you motherf****r. And when I do you will give me all 45,50 I lost.

[rogercito96]

@CholeraZajeliMojNick Nobody told you to use real money

[theanvilcracks]

Thumbs up if you would've stood inside the circle, carefully going through the wallet...

[darrynyee]

maybe the combination for the white squares and wallet has something to do with it?

maybe because when people are going around the corner or across the street is the only time they don't look down while they are walking? (you look around the corner to check if people are coming out of the corner, you look at the opposite side of the street while crossing the road)

i donno

[Snowball665]

@darrynyee cool story bro

[mitchl090709]

i think its because of the circle.. , somebody scared to get it .. cause they think about someone watch it...haha

[sufferagain]

next tim i see a wallet perfectly centered in a circle im taking it

[Kjernekar]

it's most likely the circle drawn around it that makes the trick work. It probably makes people think (withour realising it) that the wallet is somehow being monitored or watched since someone drew the circle on purpose.

[Wicky4D]

Can anyone proof this? Has this video been edited lots of times by removing the scenes where the wallet was taken?

The trick is not the wallet, if you concentrate hard enough you will see that there is no proof of it working. Nope, the real trick is that Derren amazes people so that everybody is trying to explain this video in the comment section below.

[Snowball665]

@Wicky4D cool story bro

[Ratoscruvy]

I tried this at my town centre but when I tried to go for my wallet... it was already stolen

[RexyRexach]

Inattentional blindness: Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere. The people crossing this street are focused on different things, such as where they're going, so they completely ignore the wallet. Their mind doesn't consciously register it.

[Dormaninth14]

know y they didnt take it? they thought they would get caught. lol

[lumimobb]

@Dormaninth14 exactly. it would seem fishy to me that there is a wallet perfectly centered in the middle of a drawn out circle.

[Dormaninth14]

@lumimobb yep. haha

[themaster1100111]

I use the same tactic to prevent sea-bear attacks.

[JonathanMeneguzzi]

It's calling..

[bluexepnos]

i can see how this works (i think)

the circle around the wallet makes it look as if people know about it (like officials or something) - robbers would be more scared of being caught and good people who would otherwise hand it in thinks that it is all under control. genious

[britishmikey]

@bluexepnos Also, maybe the following factors helped. 1) The square wallet over the square lights somehow makes it harder for the human eye to pick up on (maybe kind of in the same way as if you have lots of dark squares in a grid you see circles in between the squares) 2) The proximity of the wallet to the crossing, so naturally peoples heads and eyes may be more elevated off the floor as they just stepped off the road, than simply walking down the street.

[lumimobb]

@bluexepnos thats deff it

[AGgirldoll]

In all fairness, this was done when the economy was much better.

[lumimobb]

@AGgirldoll lol

[JClayCast]

@AGgirldoll and in what seems like a wealthier part of town.

[mastery910]

Genius! The circle he drew was a forcefield created by that magic crayon. I want one of those magic crayons!

[santayo50]

Swifty did the graphical designs!!!

[moniapadme]

It's because it's in the circle. That looks suspicious - like someone left it for a reason. I wouldn't take it as well. I would automatically think about some kind of a prank or tv hidden camera.

[3rd6thdeathward]

that would be picked up in a second



[yellOStuntguy]

the bright yellow circle around it is a kind of highlight for where it belongs when you see the wallet you assume there's money in it and then you assume that taking it is stealing. if you then removed it from the circle, you would feel as if its not where it belongs which accentuates the feeling of stealing. of course, placing it on a crowded street for everyone to see, and also on a (I'm guessing) street with a lot of white collar workers helps

[bluenotejazz]

@bubblesofhell

You must have a yellow circle drawn around your pussy.

[bubblesofhell]

@bluenotejazz im a guy -.-'

[eminemisinthemafia]

@bubblesofhell

did you at least empty it

[Dormaninth14]

@bubblesofhell thats just wrong lol

[MAZ1N00]

@bubblesofhell LMAO you are king.

[NibblerFuturama]

i would have taken it

[bubblesofhell]

@NibblerFuturama hahaha me too

[cappaTONEpuppet]

in soviet russia wallet tricks you!

[gimsegamma]

whats up with guys writing exactly the same thing in the comments?

[psps360]

Try to do this trick in Afghanistan. You will also disappear with the wallet

[telmocirilo]

@psps360 hey! a leer un poco más, eh? A ti si que te ha llegado la propaganda al corazón

[TutolinoCowboy]

@psps360 lol



[TuascoBR]

@psps360 Try in Rio de Janeiro for better results :D

[VenomHunter880]

@psps360 haha

[GLEEKFOREVER14]

@psps360

What the hell?! thats so racist! fuck u!

[Freshman000000]

I will draw a yellow circle around my house.

[danielbrothers1]

In Serbia,Daren wouldn't be able to do next clip because he would be eliminated after wallet disappearing...No witness!

[i1bike]

@danielbrothers1 not true / nije istina

[Kingsofpeace]

So basicly.. if you see a wallet on the ground instead of picking it up and "hoping" you find the person that owns it, put a yellow circle around it and if the person who lost it comes back it'll still be there.

[ggmao]

in brazil you would not have time to put this on the floor and you already lost it!

so true!

[quiksilver87]

obviously no one is gonna take it...they think some one is watching it because there is a big circle around it.

[senarodrigo]

I want to see the exact same thing without the circle

[i1bike]

@senarodrigo not true / nije istina

[5Element4]

That wallet wouldn't last 30 seconds on the ground in South Africa.

[mycommentpwnz]

there was a few times in the video cuts were made for editing. I suspect a few black youths were removed from this video.

[TheMadSackboys]

That is because Brittains have respect for others belongings, maybe one day we in America will learn this trait and the robberies and crime will stop.

[yllw0013]

@TheMadSackboys

Did you sleep through the coverage of the riots?

[TheMadSackboys]

@yllw0013

There is nothing wrong with showing a passion for your countries number 1 sport lol aside from Cricket.

[funnydude415]

noone tried to return it to him =(

[tigerseyeproductions]

Hah, who needs banks when you can safely store your wallet on a street corner?

[TadRaunch]

Haha I tried this and somebody took the wallet. I left a $10 bill in it, and a card with my cell number on it and wrote the old "reward for returning" deal... whoever took it never phoned.

[morehn]

in israel, they warned us to watch out for pens on the ground. they could be bombs.

[HentaiFundamentalist]

37 people got pissed because they didn't take the wallet when they walked by it.

[tionx12]

There should have been a control experiment that showed another wallet WAS taken without anything demarcating it

[wtficantgetausername]

obviously the yellow circle signifies that somethings up!

[Sigmarian]

as if you wouldnt investigate then take

[mrssiruuvi]

@HerpinDerp its ok you can record random people when they are a part of a wider area.. so they are recording a sidewalk with a wallet particulary and the people are only a part of it.. i think thats ok in most developing and developed countries.... actually im from poland and i bet the wallet would disapear in 5 minutes there...sad

[Guilmon470]

I have a personal theory that it was passed up indefinitely because of the number of the group of people around it. If enough people don't touch it, then nobody's going to touch it because they would stand out from the group or be reprimanded. I'm thinking of testing this one with a five dollar bill on a sidewalk in areas of high AND low traffic to see if that's the case.

[soocl0se]

Ehhh, not really all that suprising.

[midaviru]

@Bluestributewastaken as i said you can't really see any of the faces in the clip. even if they were sued i don't believe anything would come of it. also, sorry for being an asshole before. i find commenting on youtube to be a good way to blow off some steam. cheers.

[kaya1954]

Try this in İstanbul it will be 3 seconds then it wil disappear.

[RagingHeavens]

I left my wallet on a cash register in Japan once, with about 900USD in it, and another 200-300 USD worth in Yen. 2 hours later, I figured out I lost the wallet, and traced my steps back to this large mall(not too large, but large). I didn't even enter the building, but the guard from the entrance sped towards me, signaling me to come with him...I followed, and a few women working there basically ushered me to the lost and found section..They gave me a form for lost and found, to describe ..

[RagingHeavens]

@RagingHeavens the item I lost...I opened the wallet afterwards, I could not believe their integrity, I really am not used to this. to my shock, everything was there, my debit card too, and all the other stuff...

I went and bought them each box of chocolates in gratitude, the most expensive ones. They would not accept, I almost had to fight them. In the end, I opened the box, started eating and made them take it :D

Amazing what you will find out about people around the world.

[BlessedSamantha]

37 people tried this in the hood.

[shikasmugen]

Its cuz that city people are socialized and that yellow circle is telling their mind not to take it.

[crapstacker5]

@shikasmugen I think the yellow circle draws attention to the wallet. It's that same attention that stops people from taking the wallet because they don't want to be noticed picking the wallet up. If people noticed you picking the wallet up, they would assume you were stealing, a thief, a low-life, etc. Basically, it's people's fear of rejection from society that is more powerful than their desire for easy prosperity.

That's just my thoughts though.

[ottawan613]

Derren was just off-screen shouting DONT TOUCH MY WALLET

[Stovila]

@ottawan613 that's the best theory ever lol!

[garage5309]

wait i dont even get the trick im lost i jus watche the whole thing thinking tht hed explain it at the nend but i m stylll lost

[qkvt123]

In the phillipines the wallet would've been stolen before he could draw the circle.

[marshey123]

@qkvt123 Hahaha correct!

im from there xD

[imthetank3]

i would have picked it up, id pick up a purse if it was on the ground fuck it. id walk around saying im gay till i got home and searched that shit.

[dontsleepwithmywife1]

!?!?!?!?! why doesnt the U.S.A. get ontop of this the stop people from crossing the border!?!?!



[Frikzter]

Do that in Africa and someone will just go "huh nice circle" and nick the wallet.

[LukeMaximoBell]

In South Africa the wallet would have been stolen before he could put it on the ground.

[Frikzter]

@LukeMaximoBell Thats just stupid

[kawadamark]

@LukeMaximoBell This is a social experiment, you can't change contexts radically like that and expect the same results.

[flipingchip]

@kawadamark its called a "joke"

[kawadamark]

@flipingchip a bad and obvious one i may add. i'm always against mediocre humor.

[telmocirilo]

@LukeMaximoBell seguramente has estado ahí verdad? En los Estados Unidos te la habrían quitado para mantener a los soldados en Irak!

[asdasdasdasd1880]

No one picks it up cuz it looks like, as admiral ackbar would phrase it : A TRAP D:<

[nika39]

try in turkey, you dont have to show your wallet :)

[deniedjoo]

lol here we would have taken the wallet and the part of the ground it was on and the tires off the closest vehicle near it

[phlegmist]

In Romania we would take everything from the wallet and leave you with a note instead: 'You twat, next time make sure you have more money and more credit cards in it, MKAY ? Oh and.. thanks for the PIN# btw, what a nice person you are.'

[ozzymanni4]

the reason people don't pick it up is because it was deliberately placed there and they think someone is watching them.

[gtfoyoufag]

Waiting for someone to walk in and say its a trick and that everyone in the clip is a paid actor.

[VikingWarCry]

I wanna see him try that trick in a third world country

[TheUltimoSniper]

I there is a yellow circle around it (the most visible color), everyone will notice it and noone will even attempt to move it from it's place because it was obvioulsy set there for a reason.

[sloma111]

Yellow ring makes this wallet seen by everybody on the street. And its a sign that ITS NOT LOST and this all some kind of joke.

[RunRobots]

try this in low class neighborhood and u will get different results.

[Champman1979]

Hah, I tried the same thing and it worked!!!! for 20 seconds. Ka-ching!

[lucianowingchun]

Quero ver ele fazer isso aqui no Brasil... Iam roubar ele antes de ele por a carteira no chão... kkkkkk

by se7en - luciano

[RolfIForgot]

@lucianowingchun kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk tb tava pensando nisso XD

[MyLatestEscape]

So what did we learn?

If you ever lose your wallet, make sure it has a bright yellow chalk ring around it? And maybe lose it in an upscale business district and not in east Oakland? (my former nabe)

It was 'kind of' an interesting 'experiment' but I'm not sure what hypothesis he was testing for? People who feel that they are being observed won't commit a crime? (or even help somone by turning it in?)

All in all, the yellow ring made this a complete WTF??

[Artist4Justice]

@MyLatestEscape

I believe the yellow ring made it a sort of display and put people off. I wonder how many people would grab it if it were just outside the ring. The ring, in a sense, gave the wallet a place to belong and people are less likely to take something that has its place.

Also, instead of "testing a hypothesis," I think he was showing that people's reactions can be shifted by changing something seemingly unimportant.

As usual, it all comes down to: "How did he do it?!"

[MyLatestEscape]

@Artist4Justice

No, I don't think it actually does come down to to that. As a rationlist/skeptic, I believe that anyone with yellow chalk and cameras would achieve the same result in that same location. It's not magic, it's psychology.

So it's not about "how'd he do it", but about 'why do people act x way under y conditions'?

[whyteay]

Now try doing that in an Eastern European country, it'd be gone before he'd got round the corner..

[AndersThyme]

@whyteay In fact it would be gone before it got out of his pocket ;) hehe

[rawfflecakes]

everyone that walked passed in the video looked like they didnt need a wallet they were all rich he should've left it in a poor area

[Pacfrs17]

try to do that in mexico believe it will not work!

[pedro46f]

im thinking of doing that with my full money at lisboa, praça do comércio, someone is interested in it?

[fridlik]

I try this with old mobile in Czech Republic. Stayed on some place two minutes ... :-D

[abracamm22]

Try it in Mexico I bet that wouldn't work at the moment he counts de money that shit would've been gone

[seomistube]

i would of waited for a crowd to come, and then kicked it and picked it up

[RSantosGT]

try in portugal.....even the ellow circle will disapear....could do for something else!!!



[wotgomeswot]

@RSantosGT AHAHA ganhaste

[Bikankas]

@RSantosGT 20 thumbs up for you sir xDDD i totally agree...

[rickyboyxelaxmc]

@RSantosGT ahahah mesmo ! xD

[gus227]

@RSantosGT Msm, pods crer xD



[jimbrasserie]

@RSantosGT lol

[sigamarinha]

@RSantosGT looooooool memo na margem sul ate riscavam o alcatrao km as unhas

[umgajokualker]

@RSantosGT podes crer k é mesmo XD

[Jastar76]

@RSantosGT AHAAHAHH... Same in Milan, Italy! I think we'll take also some bricks under the wallet, just to be sure...!

[ArchRascal]

1+0=1, 1+0=1, 1+0=1

[ForeverWinx1]

im sorry, but yellow circle or not... i would have pinched it xD

[dugi86]

Some kid could pick it.

[Rootherdam]

Polak na 100% by to podniósł.

[zabagigant]

try it in Poland 

[ptrkchn]

spróbuj tak w Polsce zostawić cwaniaku

[blazejmaupa]

everyone was thinking that is a bomb

[tiffanymondesir]

I guess there are no homeless people in that city :/

[Mixikyr]

The reason the circle seems perfect is because it wasn't drawn in one layer, but his initial circle was already quite perfect, but because he didn't use his wrist like most people would.

[333robsta]

Nope he did that in Regent street. If that was New Cross or Camberwell it wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes

[stikrstickers]

Whole new meaning to "circle of trust"

[type2s13]

there were no blacks on this street. just sayin'. nice neighborhood. that wallet wouldn't last three minutes where i live.

[sharksthatdrown]

36 people tried to do this but got their wallets stollen

[gouvyrock]

@sharksthatdrown hi hi !!!!funny!!!!

[RawGreenTheAnimator]

@sharksthatdrown those 37 people liked your post too.

[boumbh]

@sharksthatdrown And it was by Derren Brown himself...

[BethlehemFilmakers]

I love when humanity is not as bad as we are made out to be.

[AlexKrycek411]

@BethlehemFilmakers

You mean when humanity is not as bad as we are repeatedly conditioned to believe it is?

Also question the conditioners, my friend.

[Mortenen]

It's a good circle, I'll give you that!

[phlegmington]

thats a pretty good circle.

[doingear]

yea....try doin that in the hood. that thing would be gone before he even finished the circle.

[larsonb33]

I think it might have been the film crew watching the wallet LOL!

[upcycle]

this would make an interesting website.. do this same test in all the major cities/communities, and then post the results.. as a way to rate them for safety from theft. It could be the wallet chalk test rating/certification.

[illitenub]

and i think this is the wrong country to do this... try asia next time. :)

[upcycle]

@illitenub Or try it in one of the USA ghetto neighborhoods, where crime rates are the highest.

[illitenub]

I would have thought it was some advertisement...

[SerasXHarkonnen]

This is awesome, the yellow circling indicates that is intentionally left there and I guess that wards people off.

[JeffersonDinedAlone]

It's all about the implication that the wallet was left intentially because it was circled. Psychologically, people don't know why it was left intentionally, however, since leaving something intentionally, and then indicating the intent by circling it, may imply a presumed baiting situation, people dismiss the idea of retrieval, even if only to honorably discover identification so that the wallet may be rightfully returned. The duration of time it is left would reduce hesitancy accordingly.

[upcycle]

@JeffersonDinedAlone I wonder if it is the same reason having a sign on car or in a home window indicating the property is under video surveillance.. or how many stores now put a surveillance camera monitor at the entrance to the stores to remind people that they are under surveillance, to prevent most petty crime from happening. Which leaves surveillance "loss prevention" persons to handle the more sociopath sophisticated hardcore criminals.

[maxousdrago15]

36 poeple got there wallet takin

[shadowforciano]

if you do that in puerto rico they even steal the chalk lol ;)

[RToor34]

That's extremely clever.