Comments on: How to Avoid a Pickpocket http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/07/09/how-to-avoid-a-pickpocket/ My Stomach and the World. Food, Recipes, Travel and Photography by Sara Rosso. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:50:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: karvictho http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/07/09/how-to-avoid-a-pickpocket/comment-page-1/#comment-137104 karvictho Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:20:25 +0000 http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/07/09/how-to-avoid-a-pickpocket/#comment-137104 Almost got pick pocketed in Copenhagen. Came out of a grocery store and saw three cleanshaven men with new white sneakers walking toward me. They looked Italian, but turned out to be Albanian. Anyway, something about them unnerved me so with two bags of groceries and a book bag with lots of zippers, I crossed into the parking area and continued to the busstop. When I got there, I turned back and they had mysteriously disappeared. The bus arrived a few minutes later and I jumped on, but so did two of them. I got to the doors in the middle, where one came up and stood on my left (I was holding on to the hanger and had my book bag over my shoulder on his side and the groceries on the floor) and his buddy stood behind me and pretended he did not know how to hold on to the pole as the bus drove off, so he kept knocking into me. I noticed the guy on the left was putting his hand in the bag over my shoulder. Which of course made me aware of the situation. I know I should not have done it, but with my right hand I swung it into his face and fell back on the guy behind me. He in turn fell back onto a passenger in the seat behind him. His mouth was open, and his arms to. Remembering an anti-rape protection trick I saw on a video years ago, I put my thumb in his mouth, and grabbed his cheek with the other fingers. Then I shook his face while yelling ... all kinds of stuff at him..... The entire bus, full of women with kids, and elderly people were totally surprised, no one said a word. The bus pulled into the next stop and when the doors opened the guys jumped off. Whew!!! When I got off I phoned the police who after receiving my description said "Blue jacket, white sneakers, .... Yes its the Albanians." If I had not been tired and in the type of "Don't mess with me mood" that day, I probably wouldn't have been so physical, but I will always say out loud to those around me that the person is a pick pocket so watch out. And when I can I will alert the authorities. Almost got pick pocketed in Copenhagen. Came out of a grocery store and saw three cleanshaven men with new white sneakers walking toward me. They looked Italian, but turned out to be Albanian. Anyway, something about them unnerved me so with two bags of groceries and a book bag with lots of zippers, I crossed into the parking area and continued to the busstop. When I got there, I turned back and they had mysteriously disappeared. The bus arrived a few minutes later and I jumped on, but so did two of them. I got to the doors in the middle, where one came up and stood on my left (I was holding on to the hanger and had my book bag over my shoulder on his side and the groceries on the floor) and his buddy stood behind me and pretended he did not know how to hold on to the pole as the bus drove off, so he kept knocking into me.

I noticed the guy on the left was putting his hand in the bag over my shoulder. Which of course made me aware of the situation. I know I should not have done it, but with my right hand I swung it into his face and fell back on the guy behind me. He in turn fell back onto a passenger in the seat behind him.

His mouth was open, and his arms to. Remembering an anti-rape protection trick I saw on a video years ago, I put my thumb in his mouth, and grabbed his cheek with the other fingers. Then I shook his face while yelling … all kinds of stuff at him…..

The entire bus, full of women with kids, and elderly people were totally surprised, no one said a word. The bus pulled into the next stop and when the doors opened the guys jumped off.

Whew!!! When I got off I phoned the police who after receiving my description said “Blue jacket, white sneakers, …. Yes its the Albanians.”

If I had not been tired and in the type of “Don’t mess with me mood” that day, I probably wouldn’t have been so physical, but I will always say out loud to those around me that the person is a pick pocket so watch out. And when I can I will alert the authorities.

]]> By: Teres http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/07/09/how-to-avoid-a-pickpocket/comment-page-1/#comment-131977 Teres Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:30:30 +0000 http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/07/09/how-to-avoid-a-pickpocket/#comment-131977 Just returned from Rome and would like to share a precautions I took which was cheap and easy to do. I sewed a sock onto the inside of a pant/skirt waistband. I cut the sock to fit a passport and sewed the bottom Because the sock stretches, I also put extra cash and credit cards in it. The top of sock which is not stretched acts as a natural closure. Or, you could put a safetypin. It was so comfortable I would sometimes make sure that it was still there, but there was no way it could fall off and disappear. Just returned from Rome and would like to share a precautions I took which was cheap and easy to do. I sewed a sock onto the inside of a pant/skirt waistband. I cut the sock to fit a passport and sewed the bottom Because the sock stretches, I also put extra cash and credit cards in it. The top of sock which is not stretched acts as a natural closure. Or, you could put a safetypin. It was so comfortable I would sometimes make sure that it was still there, but there was no way it could fall off and disappear.

]]> By: Kate http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/07/09/how-to-avoid-a-pickpocket/comment-page-1/#comment-130486 Kate Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:49:59 +0000 http://www.msadventuresinitaly.com/blog/2007/07/09/how-to-avoid-a-pickpocket/#comment-130486 Got pick pocketed in Paris, i had no idea until a young girl ran off the train as fast as she got on. Our credit card was not used but our Euro and american money and wallet were never seen again, the wallet was in my husbands front pocket, he was wearing a phillies hat and sneakers so maybe he should have blended in. we were not hurt but I'll never forget loosing all that money Got pick pocketed in Paris, i had no idea until a young girl ran off the train as fast as she got on. Our credit card was not used but our Euro and american money and wallet were never seen again, the wallet was in my husbands front pocket, he was wearing a phillies hat and sneakers so maybe he should have blended in. we were not hurt but I’ll never forget loosing all that money

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