Posted on 08/16/2019 7:08:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Poughkeepsie?
It’s a trick question, right?
My guess is Chicago.
Put razor blades in the right pockets and frequent the place to set them up.
Cities are havens for non-working, non-productive parasites. When a productive individual comes into their area, he is easy prey for the parasites.
Imagine that. Pickpockets are more prevalent at bars where people are drunk and don’t know someone’s snatched their wallet.
When we travel there’s really no need to take a purse or a bag. I have the wallet with the credit cards in my front pocket if we need to pay for anything, so why do people have to lug purses/bags everywhere they go?
Hanging your purse on the back of the chair never made any sense. I put mine under the table between my feet and keep my feet on it at all times.
One, nothing I own has a front pocket.
Two, we carry them because our husbands and kids are constantly needing something out of them. Very little of what’s in them are for us.
Looking at the linked map and graph, the CTA and downtown are the top picks.
Going to a local joint could be iffy?
They may run into Stoch, last Saturday night he picked up the Coke machine and danced with it, no one discouraged him.
Or Jamal, last Saturday he emptied TWO magazines into the Coke machine... one of his wingmen paid the bartender for it.
High-end joints downtown, better pickings.
I do carry a daybag sometimes with the stuff we need, but it’s always in front of me, and I hold onto it like a football.
I also have a neck wallet that is slash-proof, that goes under the shirt.
It’s not crime. It is just getting their reparations.
I knew a guy once who lived in kind of a rough neighborhood.
He kept having stereos stolen out of his car.
The next time he replaced one he first tack welded six razor blades to the underside.
He awoke one morning to find his car door open and a pool of blood on the floor with a blood trail leading down the driveway. Stereo still intact.
Sounds like visitors to Chicago should carry a Mexican wallet—one that is strapped to the arm under the sleeve or worn around the neck under the shirt.
These days he'd likely be sued.
one that is strapped to the arm under the sleeve or worn around the neck under the shirt.
Sounds like a backup holster?
Nothing wrong with that.
Outside of Rome’s train station there is no better purse snatching oppertunity than 50,000 tweens pouring in from the suburbs all diressed exactly alike, cut-off jeans with tied up shirts showing all the midriff that daddy would never allow. They come in two varieties depending on the day of the month. There is the apple phone with daddy’s training-wheels debit card often with just a $500 balance. And then there is the sling over the shoulder purse-let. Pickpockets will have an easy time either way. But they won’t really get too much more than an apple phone with finger print password.
>>>Where are Chicago pickpockets most likely to strike?<<<
DC
I travel for work. Recently been to Chicago area a few times. I have simple rules no matter where I am traveling.
Carry a fake wallet with garbage cards inside and fake dead cards.
Carry a dead phone that isn’t your real one.
If anyone ever asks you for them, hand them over. If anyone steals them, no worries.
This isn’t a problem when you have give up your impostor wallet and phone.
My daughter had a thin strapped shoulder bag taken....he cut the strap.This was in broad daylight on a very busy sidewalk.
But the highest rate of pocket-picking always occurred at public hangings.
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