Card Trick of Death

Very carefully... Actually I don't recommend practicing this at all. I've been caught once by the rat trap just by setting it up and it hurt...alot. My finger is still bruised from the impact and it happened about four days ago.

Actually, there are a couple effects where the magician does a card on sword type effect using a mouse trap to snap on the selected card, which is called Trapped by Bill Strickland from the book titled The Magic of 1937. Another way that I saw Curtis perform this (this was his actual performance on the DVD) was that he was able to snatch the card and not even have the trap go off and then dropping the deck onto the trap to show the audience what could've happened. Of course it's a safer way to do it, but tripping the trap during the performance really gives an adrenaline rush when performing because it's not foolproof.