Ever get your Pocket Picked?

[HEMI®Dart]

Saw a TV show today about them. Real smooth. You would probably think you lost it.

 

[Alan Reagan]

I was at Universal Studios in Orlando last year and had my company cell phone stolen. Three guys bumped in to me as I was leaving a restuarant. One stepped in front of me and slowed down and the other two bumped me from behind slightly pushing me into the first guy. I didn't realize what was happening. We all apologized for the "bumping" and as soon as I got outside I realized the phone was gone and the guys had disappeared into the crowd. I immediately called AT&T and they stopped service on the phone and had me contact the insurer to receive another via overnight express. About two the next morning, my wife calls and said an employee of Universal had found my phone in a parking lot median when he got off work. I was using the water taxis so I know I didn't drop it in a parking lot. They probably dumped it when it didn't work. He scrolled through the numbers, found "Home" and called her from Universal's security department. No calls were logged because I cancelled service immediately. They would have probably gotten my billfold, but I had slipped it into my front pocket when I left the tip.

 

[illflem]

Worse than pickpocketed but the same idea. On the subway in Mexico City someone cut though the bottom of my day pack with a razor and emptied the entire contents while it was on my back! I didn't notice till I went to get my shirt out of the pack upon exiting the subway. All they got was a bunch of junk.

 

[Andy Perreault]

My folks' neighbors love to travel to far off places of the world. Something always goes wrong on their trips, they're like the "Murphy's law couple" or something like that. One time, they were in someplace like Borneo or Indonesia when a monkey stole the husband's wallet. He ran up a tree and began picking through it, throwing money and credit cards all over. I guess they got everything back eventually, after the monkey lost interest in it. At this same place (some kind of tourist park featuring monkeys), one climbed up and sat on the wife's head. She was told not to try to get it off, because they bite and they may have rabies. After it jumped off, she was told that she should wash her hair with some lice-killing shampoo for a while.

I could go on with some of their misadventures, but I'd be getting us off subject.

Like someone above mentioned, I put my wallet in my front pocket when I'm in a crowded place.

Andy

 

[Hammer]

I had mine picked in Springfield, Mass at a mall once when I was running there on a regular bid a few years ago,,We always went there to eat at the food court when we got up and when walking to it thruy the mall someone bumped into me and I never even gave it a thought,,Got to restuarant and went to pay for my food,whalla NO WALLET,,Had to have my other driver take care of it till I got back home the next day,,While in bed the next day Springfield PD called and woke me saying it was found in the parking lot later,minus all the credit cards and money of course,,When I returned up there my next trip and reclaimed what was left the old Officer explained that there was a rash of it happening and a easy way to prevent it for those who had to carry it in their rear pocket,,See the pick pockets rely on smoothness to attain their prizes, as he explained further,the easiest way to stop it was to add a rubberband around the billfold which will not allow it to slide out easily and draw your attention to whats happening,,Its a easy fix to and something I do today still when its in my rear pocket,,Most times when on the road I use my front pocket wallet and I never carry my credit cards unless they are needed... ... ..... Andy