Yes, I was there.
I seem to remember a quick fondle or two in the family jewels area.
When I got home my left nut was missing.
That goes to show you just how desperate the New York City left has become.
When I was traveling overseas, we were well aware of pickpockets. I was in Knightsbridge with several other flight attendants and we were in the middle of a huge crowd. I happened to look down and saw a black arm snaking around me. I had my pocketbook strap around my neck and was clasping it close but didn’t feel a thing. He had it unzipped. I wrapped my arms around myself and my purse and said out loud, “Something has happened!” Suddenly the black guy beside me screamed ai yiyiyiyiyi and the entire crowd dispersed, leaving just us flight attendants. Nothing was taken, thankfully.
One man we met was traveling with his mother and he looked a little, well, slow. Very sweet but you could tell he might have been a little developmentally delayed. He was excited to tell us that he was pickpocketed of all of his money but they left him and his mother 2 subway tokens.
The pickpockets are that good at what they do.
That’s what they call a ‘handling’ charge.