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Where are Chicago pickpockets most likely to strike?
ABC 7 ^ | 15 Aug 2019

Posted on 08/16/2019 7:08:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

The city of Chicago is being stung by a thriving, five-fingered threat: pickpockets.

...pickpocketing cases have increased 20% the past three years.

Restaurants this year have become a popular place for pocket-pickers. So far in 2019 there have been more than 100 pickpocketing incidents in restaurants.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Poughkeepsie?


21 posted on 08/16/2019 8:07:02 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It’s a trick question, right?

My guess is Chicago.


22 posted on 08/16/2019 8:08:22 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Put razor blades in the right pockets and frequent the place to set them up.


23 posted on 08/16/2019 8:08:48 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Cities are havens for non-working, non-productive parasites. When a productive individual comes into their area, he is easy prey for the parasites.


24 posted on 08/16/2019 8:15:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Imagine that. Pickpockets are more prevalent at bars where people are drunk and don’t know someone’s snatched their wallet.


25 posted on 08/16/2019 8:16:07 AM PDT by bgill
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To: freedomlover

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?


26 posted on 08/16/2019 8:19:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Blurb2350

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.


27 posted on 08/16/2019 8:20:07 AM PDT by bgill
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To: dfwgator

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.


28 posted on 08/16/2019 8:22:38 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

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.


29 posted on 08/16/2019 8:33:50 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: bgill

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.


30 posted on 08/16/2019 8:40:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Blurb2350

It’s not crime. It is just getting their reparations.


31 posted on 08/16/2019 8:40:48 AM PDT by arthurus (es,.12=g"-.,.w^v]>)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

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.


32 posted on 08/16/2019 8:41:22 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


33 posted on 08/16/2019 8:44:11 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Buckeye McFrog
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.

These days he'd likely be sued.

34 posted on 08/16/2019 8:44:12 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Fiji Hill

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.


35 posted on 08/16/2019 8:47:19 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Blurb2350

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.


36 posted on 08/16/2019 9:17:39 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

>>>Where are Chicago pickpockets most likely to strike?<<<

DC


37 posted on 08/16/2019 9:20:01 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


38 posted on 08/16/2019 9:22:46 AM PDT by King_Corey (Buy American - https://madeinamericastore.com/)
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To: bgill

My daughter had a thin strapped shoulder bag taken....he cut the strap.This was in broad daylight on a very busy sidewalk.


39 posted on 08/16/2019 9:26:02 AM PDT by Mears
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To: DUMBGRUNT
In Victorian England, pocket picking was a hanging offense, and the sentence was carried out in public.

But the highest rate of pocket-picking always occurred at public hangings.

40 posted on 08/16/2019 9:28:30 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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