Apollo Robbins Demonstrates the Art of Pickpocketing [video]

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33 pointsjellyksong4 comments

Apollo is just fantastic. This is another video of Apollo demonstrating his skills:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

I'm fascinated of how he "dances" around the victims and uses peoples own momentum.

I'm always putting my wallet in my (kinda tight --at least not baggy) jeans' front pocket.

I've been thinking about asking my step-mother to sew velcro inside the pocket as to make it harder for pickpockets to get in when I'd be distracted. It would be invisible and certainly not something they'd expect: from the outside it would just look like a normal pant.

Do you think it could work or do you have any other anti-pickpocketing trick?

Have a "honeypot". Just carry an empty (or with unimportant things) on your back pocket as always and a small money-clip on your front one. If someone gets it - no problem. It's better than "surprising" the thief on the spot because things can get worse from there.

Nice idea, now how to make it not attract to much attention but still obvious enough for the thief to notice it over your other stuff.

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