Summer Pocket Thieves: Methods and Defense

In winter, the jacket, the large scarf covers the stroke movements of the pickpockets, but the summer, loose clothing does not scare them back from theft. In this case, it is a huge beach towel, opened storage, or a larger summer summer magazine, a travel brochure to try to hide the crime by pickpockets. There is only one effective antidote to them: precaution, attention! Blikk helps us to protect against summer pockets!

• Pocket thieves cause different methods to damage to summer mass events

• The most common tricks include collision and loss scene

• It is advisable to keep your wallet close to your body for defense or monitor your bag

Pickpaper victims are mostly women, which is even more typical in the summer. It is easier to get into women’s bags unnoticed than the pants pockets, and most men keep their valuables in their pockets.

« The name pocket thief comes from the stealing of jackets, vests, and the real pockets are much better for the Pest Argo, that is, the names of Kaskás, basketball, bags or rabbits, » said Judit Lénárd, a local historian in Budapest. – Budapest, the summer of Budapest, and the crowd around the sights – this is valid for Lake Balaton, for tourist attractions such as the Eger Castle, the Basilica of Esztergom or the Szeged Open Air Stage – the pocket thieves canan, because in the big scramble, it appears less to seek. It is also a popular pickpound thief that criminals take advantage of the victims’ helpfulness, or they pretend to be helping tourists who seem to be lost, uncertain.

The summer pocket tricks

Collision trick: The thief « accidentally » gets to the victim or the victim gets stuck in several perpetrators. It is applied on a crowded vehicle on and down, stopping, colliding with the victim from the back, and the backpack or handbag is already deprived.

A lost trick: The thief pretends to be in trouble, with a laid -out map, pretending to be puzzled, or is offering to be a helper if he sees such a person. When the victim is in contact with it, it is over, the companion will appear, and by the time the unsuspecting victim realizes, it has already reached its values.

Photographer Trick: The victim of the sights only focuses on taking a good picture, while not even noticing that others, who, in principle, also take photos, are surrounded by, tilted a little, a Sorry, for a good picture, and has already been pocketed.

Stairs trick: It is also applied on the escalator, and the city is inexperienced in the city is looking for the right exit, so he does not watch his bag, his backpack, the pockets surround it, the operation is covered with a towel and steals it in its cover.

« Pockets are criminals who can only be caught by act, » he explained to Blikk Tibor Teplán retired detective. – At that time, a couple of « kaskás » slipped into the robbery group, as the Pest thief calls the pockets, because if they have fallen and, to keep the prey, use violence, it is a much more serious crime. The classic pockets worked with sophisticated methods, and there were regular schools in Hejőcsa and Zugló, where there were theoretical and practical education. The young rabbits practiced on the bell, and when the « signed », the nail came with the reed. Later, the students practiced each other, learned how to work together because lone pocket That’s not very much.

The classic pocket lineup is at least five people. The first man is the distractor who talks to the victims, for example, in the summer, he surrenders to a lost tourist. The second person is the cover, who disguises the trick from the public, with a map in the summer, as if he were helping the distractor, or with the towel on the arm, as if he were wiping out the sweat. The third team member performs actual theft when the fourth, the indicator nods and does not see a police officer in the area. The fifth Bandit is the saver, whom the thief immediately gives the prey and steps with it. So, even if the victim notices that he was exposed and seizes the thief nearby, nothing is found, so in the end he has to apologize.

« Investigators know the roles very well, most of the time this classic line -up is the pitfall of the tricks, as the cops watch exactly where a token, a covering, their movements are not as hidden as the rabbit or the refugee, » the former detective continued. – If they are there, you just have to look at who is near them, from there the identification, the fall. Even the bins nearby are being watched by the cops at an action, because the pockets immediately remove the money from the elementary wallet, the documents are discarded, so they do not have evidence. Not a band had fallen for the trash can, and they didn’t really understand how the police got there.