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Your area may be in decline if you see picket reports.

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My pals down in the gutter claim there is a large pickpocket school in Mexico/South America?

1 posted on 08/16/2019 7:08:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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>>>Where are Chicago pickpockets most likely to strike?<<<

Pockets?


2 posted on 08/16/2019 7:11:10 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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I didn’t realize they had a union.


3 posted on 08/16/2019 7:14:34 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Not "where?", but, "how?".

Pay attention and get your head out of your phone!!!

Carry concealed and screw the prohibition.

6 posted on 08/16/2019 7:18:37 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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a thriving, five-fingered threat: pickpockets.

It's ableist to suggest that Chicagoans with fewer than five digits couldn't successfully pick pockets.

9 posted on 08/16/2019 7:27:30 AM PDT by Tax-chick (It's the guitar solo! Everybody polka!!!)
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In Chicago?


10 posted on 08/16/2019 7:27:46 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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I visit the Chicago area quite often because we have family there. I avoid Chicago itself like the plague.


12 posted on 08/16/2019 7:32:15 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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I got picked by a pack of 8-10 year old gypsy kids in Paris 20 years ago. Got bum rushed in the subway and they got my cigs and some money out of a coat pocket. I didnt realize it until they were around the corner and gone.

Surprise and misdirection.


15 posted on 08/16/2019 7:40:20 AM PDT by freedomlover
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The Chicago Pickpockets?

Kicking off against the Austin Weirdos in the XFL opener six months from now.


17 posted on 08/16/2019 7:44:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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There was a major uptick in pickpocketing and phone snatching at this year’s Lollapalooza, and all over Chicago in general. Just the other day women were warned about hanging their purses over the backs of chairs while dining in a restaurant. And “flyer boys” engage diners in sidewalk cafés, then snatch their phones and other easy-to-reach valuables. Many judges have stopped setting sensible bail requirements, releasing even habitual criminals on their own recognizance or with ridiculously low bail requirements. And the State’s Attorney, Kim “Crimesha” Foxx (remember her from the Jussie Smollett farce?) has stated her intention to stop charging many minority perps. And that’s exactly what she’s doing. Chicago is becoming a criminal’s paradise.


18 posted on 08/16/2019 7:45:16 AM PDT by Blurb2350
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Loop, Michigan Ave. area and Gold Coast. No surprises there. That’s where the money is.


41 posted on 08/16/2019 9:36:01 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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And pickpockets in Germany are always looking for an easy mark.


44 posted on 08/16/2019 11:48:43 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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Where are Chicago pickpockets most likely to strike?

Where your wallet is.......

48 posted on 08/16/2019 12:46:48 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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