He's constantly self-directing and self-evaluating the instant. You wouldn't have 100% certainty how it's going to go, because it's evolving instantly, in real time, because someone, the guy might have turned around and copped him. We putpocket, in reverse, to say, "I can put it in your pocket, I could easily take it out of your pocket." Unfortunately, you might think, "Well, he's just taken a phone off a bar that no one's watching." That's not what this distraction technique is about. I think most people have a wallet or, foolishly, their phone in their back pocket. My eyes would be gravitated towards it straight away, as a very vulnerable item to steal. My colleague, Apollo Robbins, I could see in the clips, 'cause I can tell his body language and I know what he looks like, was involved in this. People at street parties who have been drinking are easy targets because, one, your inhibitions have gone, and that makes the element of surprise better for the pickpocket to get close to you. But they're all communicating with telephones and their earpieces and with visual signals. You might think, "There's a lot going on, that would never happen," but you're looking from a bird's-eye view. She never once looks at his wrist when she's doing the watch steal. She's looking into his eyes, and she's constantly looking into his eyes. So, she's not actually looking at the wrist. It's not how quick can you do it, it's when you do it. The friction could make him go, "What's going on?" So he's actually aided it himself unknowingly, and the weight of that crystal would make it fall away easier for her. So then what's actually happened is he's actually moving away from the watch. Because if you look, the crystal is really heavy, so when you undo the tongue bit through the prongs, the weight of the crystal will make the watch fall away from the wrist. Definitely, she's taking that leather-strap watch with that technique. So the movement is covering all her movement. I've done things like this on behalf of the police to draw attention as a crime prevention, but just to show people how easy it was and how vulnerable they are. So a heavy purse with coins in, maybe, we don't know what's in there, would be trickier, but it can be done. The pressure in gripping that purse or that wallet with the chopsticks, you're going to have to be pretty spectacular gripping. I love it! I think this movie, super-well choreographed. It's not a bulky item, so it's not perfect. ![]() We've got a piece of paper or an envelope. So misdirection and sleight of hand is super important. ![]() So they say, if I tap your leg with a pencil and then hit your shoulder with a hammer, you'll forget me tapping the pencil leg but you'll feel the hammer. The greater movement supersedes that of the lesser movement, or the greater force supersedes that of a lesser force. Now, I'm not telling you this so you go out and do it, I'm telling you this so you don't be a victim of it. He can't see anything over this right side. And then when he puts his arm down, the pocket moves away from the item and his peripheral vision. So she only has to stand like that and clip whatever she needs to clip. The technique is beautiful, and unfortunately does happen.Īs he raises his arm, he's actually raising his pocket to her hand. It's been reported that there's, in one station alone, it was 139 cases of pickpocketing. The London Underground is notorious for pickpockets because it's crowded. When I work with the police, we often tell people about a thing called looping, where you might think, "I know that person." You don't, but you've, subconsciously you've seen them a couple of times in a short space of time, because they're not getting anywhere, but they've got an agenda. He's not tried to move away because he's, there's no heat on him. The technique is beautiful, and we're watching it from a spectator's point of view. He's already done the pickpocketing work for the pickpocket, unknowingly. It's a little, "Whoops." The guy is shielding his own pocket with his newspaper that he's reading. The interaction, the amount of eye contact. On the Chicago Loop, I would actually see lots of businessmen reading newspapers, and this steal is spot-on. Today we're looking at pickpocketing in movies, and we're going to judge just how real they are. I get hired by banks, insurance companies, as well as theatrical pickpocketing for West End shows. I'm a pickpocket for hire for well over 32 years now. ![]() So, she's not actually looking at the wrist, she's looking into his eyes. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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