How to Avoid Pickpockets

Hi,

I use an inside the shirt passport big money pouch for credit/debit
cards, big money, passport, stripped airline tickets.

I have a cloth money-belt that looks just like a USGI Navy Blue belt
that I put 1000$ in emergency cash in just in case.

no wallet.

casual money (food, drinks, admissions, etc) in 1 pocket and more
serious money in other pocket.

and on my day bag with camera, maps, etc in it I put a safety pin
through the pulls just to make it harder to dip into.

ttyl

hackamore
http://www.hackamoretravel.com

On Jul 23, 8:55*pm, Anonymouse wrote:
Hi,

I use an inside the shirt passport big money pouch for credit/debit
cards, big money, passport, stripped airline tickets.

I have a cloth money-belt that looks just like a USGI Navy Blue belt
that I put 1000$ in emergency cash in just in case.

no wallet.

casual money (food, drinks, admissions, etc) in 1 pocket and more
serious money in other pocket.

and on my day bag with camera, maps, etc in it I put a safety pin
through the pulls just to make it harder to dip into.

ttyl

hackamorehttp://www.hackamoretravel.com

I am guessing that this is some advertisement.

The real answer is to not look like a tourist.

Wear a Burberry trench coat that has so many pockets that no one would
have any chance of finding anything.

Look like a Mafia hit man and not a schnook.

Unlike my chorus director, who went to Paris, and the guy in front of
him "tripped," on the Paris Metro escalator (whatever) and he fell,
and the guy behind him fell on him, and when he got up his wallet was
missing.

I've been to Paris a few times, before and after my innocent chorus
director, and I never go anywhere with anyone around me. If I even
see anyone heading for the ramp, with me, then I circle around. And
if anyone were to fall in front of me, in the Paris Metro, I would
stomp all over them, and I would get away.

The real answer is to keep distance.

On 24/07/10 08:41, billzz wrote:
On Jul 23, 8:55 pm, Anonymouse wrote:
Hi,

I use an inside the shirt passport big money pouch for credit/debit
cards, big money, passport, stripped airline tickets.

I have a cloth money-belt that looks just like a USGI Navy Blue belt
that I put 1000$ in emergency cash in just in case.

no wallet.

casual money (food, drinks, admissions, etc) in 1 pocket and more
serious money in other pocket.

and on my day bag with camera, maps, etc in it I put a safety pin
through the pulls just to make it harder to dip into.

ttyl

hackamorehttp://www.hackamoretravel.com

I am guessing that this is some advertisement.

The real answer is to not look like a tourist.

Wear a Burberry trench coat that has so many pockets that no one would
have any chance of finding anything.

Look like a Mafia hit man and not a schnook.

Unlike my chorus director, who went to Paris, and the guy in front of
him "tripped," on the Paris Metro escalator (whatever) and he fell,
and the guy behind him fell on him, and when he got up his wallet was
missing.

I've been to Paris a few times, before and after my innocent chorus
director, and I never go anywhere with anyone around me. If I even
see anyone heading for the ramp, with me, then I circle around. And
if anyone were to fall in front of me, in the Paris Metro, I would
stomp all over them, and I would get away.

The real answer is to keep distance.

Avoid behaving and looking like an American tourist.

"Martin" wrote in message
...

Avoid behaving and looking like an American tourist.

Absolutely. Why do Americans feel they have to advertise what they have with
them - camera bags, money belts, bum-bags (AKA fanny-packs), manbags...I
just stick cash and cards in my trousers pockets!

Ian

24.7.2010 14:46, Ian F. kirjoitti:
"Martin" wrote in message
...

Avoid behaving and looking like an American tourist.

Absolutely. Why do Americans feel they have to advertise what they have
with them - camera bags, money belts, bum-bags (AKA fanny-packs),
manbags...I just stick cash and cards in my trousers pockets!


Advertise? I have never met such an American. I would say that typically
Oriental tourists have more gadget around their necks than their
American colleagues.

On 24/07/10 13:57, Markku Grönroos wrote:
24.7.2010 14:46, Ian F. kirjoitti:
"Martin" wrote in message
...

Avoid behaving and looking like an American tourist.

Absolutely. Why do Americans feel they have to advertise what they have
with them - camera bags, money belts, bum-bags (AKA fanny-packs),
manbags...I just stick cash and cards in my trousers pockets!


Advertise? I have never met such an American. I would say that typically
Oriental tourists have more gadget around their necks than their
American colleagues.

who have more gadget around their necks than the locals.

On 24/07/10 13:46, Ian F. wrote:
"Martin" wrote in message
...

Avoid behaving and looking like an American tourist.

Absolutely. Why do Americans feel they have to advertise what they have
with them - camera bags, money belts, bum-bags (AKA fanny-packs),
manbags...I just stick cash and cards in my trousers pockets!

Without Americans, the pick pockets would have to pick the pockets of us
locals )

On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:46:26 +0100, "Ian F."
wrote:

"Martin" wrote in message
...

Avoid behaving and looking like an American tourist.

Absolutely. Why do Americans feel they have to advertise what they have with
them - camera bags, money belts, bum-bags (AKA fanny-packs), manbags...I
just stick cash and cards in my trousers pockets!

As if they won't be taken for an American tourist anyway.

I'm not sure how a money belt advertises anything, and a fanny
pack is a sure way to lose its contents to a pickpocket.

As to cameras, many tourists carry those, not just Americans.

It's not the accoutrements that mark an American. It's the
behavior. And the speech.

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On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:39:14 -0700, Hatunen wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:46:26 +0100, "Ian F."
wrote:

"Martin" wrote in message
...

Avoid behaving and looking like an American tourist.

The real answer is not to carry a whole lot of money and/or expensive
stuff. I have a digital camera, but those are hardly worth stealing
anymore as they are so cheap, and I wear a Timex triathlon watch which
is not expensive and a plain gold wedding ring and no other jewelry.
When out and about I carry a credit card and a minimum of 'tipping'
cash for stuff like bus fares. If I have anything valuable it is in
something like a bosom buddy (under my clothing where I can't get to
it very well, let along someone else). I rarely have a purse because
I lose track of it too easily.

But there's no way in hell that I am going to be mistaken for anything
but a tourist.

Actually sometimes when I'm not a tourist. I took a camera to dinner
last night, and the man running the place asked me why I had it.

Absolutely. Why do Americans feel they have to advertise what they have with
them - camera bags, money belts, bum-bags (AKA fanny-packs), manbags...I
just stick cash and cards in my trousers pockets!

As if they won't be taken for an American tourist anyway.

We used to think you could tell someone's nationality by the shape of
their mouth from speaking their native language. And there is a
little kernel of truth in that.

My dad was traveling in Europe in 1950 - a quintessential American
tourist with a movie camera, a Polaroid and several still cameras.
Because he grew up speaking German (his parents spoke German at home -
his mother came to the US when she was 14), he understood German
pretty well and often intercepted comments by local Germans in German
thinking that he would not understand. "Look at the stupid
American..." kind of things.

Sometimes if I look like I am paying attention to a conversation in a
foreign language people will think I can understand them. Sometimes
they will even ask me. Unfortunately, I am absolutely horrible at
languages - I've tried, but have not had much luck.

Hatunen wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:46:26 +0100, "Ian F."
..jj

It's not the accoutrements that mark an American. It's the
behavior. And the speech.
Ah, but I don't speak "American" in Germany, and not with an American
accent, either 8-)


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