| The pavement is so uneven that it seems almost a work of art, cars occupy every inch of space, and pickpockets make a good living. |
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| It cites problems with beggars harassing shoppers, illegal street traders, shoplifters and pickpockets, litter, assault and robbery. |
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| Some conclude that by the 1840s pickpockets and shoplifters alike tended to be adults and professional thieves. |
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| Most pickpockets are cautious thieves hoping to avoid any kind of confrontation. |
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| Why should they waste the time of the court and disgrace themselves by prevaricating like pickpockets merely to employ the barristers? |
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| In France, Britons are warned to look out for bag-snatchers, muggers, burglars and pickpockets, all targeting tourists. |
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| The station is regarded as a high-risk area frequented by pickpockets and thieves. |
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| In France, Britons are warned to look out for bag snatchers, muggers, burglars and pickpockets, all targeting tourists. |
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| After years of decreasing numbers of pickpockets and purse snatchings, muggings are back on the rise. |
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| He must be capable of entertaining politicians, industrialists, the unemployed, pickpockets, gamblers, philanthropists, popsies and prudes. |
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| The task would have been child's play to even the very worst of pickpockets. |
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| I asked him what he, as a sharp lad, thought was the cause of so many boys becoming vagrant pickpockets? |
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| On Tuesday, police with loudhailers went in front of the Stand to alert punters that professional teams of pickpockets were working in the area. |
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| Packed shopping centres are heaving with pickpockets, who lift thousands of credit cards a day at this time of year. |
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| Travelers, long beleaguered by pickpockets and con artists, are increasingly targeted by identity thieves. |
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| The carnival regularly attracts armies of purse snatchers and pickpockets who find easy prey among the revellers. |
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| According to their newfound, city sophistication, there were pickpockets and worse on every corner just waiting for the culchies. |
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| There he meets up with the wily Artful Dodger who takes him to thief and fence Fagin, who is in charge of a gang of young pickpockets. |
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| The beggars in the city also indicate that there are thieves, pickpockets, robbers and the like lurking around. |
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| There are well-documented gangs of child pickpockets and other assorted thieves operating on both sides of the border. |
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| The piper children are expert pickpockets and thieves, they have amassed countless treasures yet rarely sell them or spend any money. |
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| Older pickpockets, incapacitated for work on their own hook, instructed the younger charges, reducing the subject to a science. |
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| And on screen, she could play sentimental innocents, as well as jewel thieves, cross-dressing pickpockets, and slippery vamps. |
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| We must be on the look out for thieves and pickpockets, but also for anything suspicious in case of a terror attack. |
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| I am in London, the city of Dickensian pickpockets, after all. |
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| Times Square, 1981 Rival pickpockets exchange an amorous glance as their hands fortuitously meet inside the pocket of a shared mark. |
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| In this carnival, prostitutes scoped out the crowd, and thieves and pickpockets went to work. |
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| The vigils and other public security officials, who are supposed to make short work of pickpockets, begin to take control of the street. |
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| In the Wild West, touring circuses were as rough as the clientele they served, with owners encouraging pickpockets and other forms of grift. |
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| Not even the moon shone on the black, starless night and the woman picked her way carefully across the city, keeping a wary eye out for cutpurses and nocturnal pickpockets. |
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| There was, of course, nothing she could do at the moment as pickpockets and others thieves worked they way through the streets of the large, bustling city. |
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| One of the biggest dangers to commuters at the time was the constant threat of pickpockets and other petty thieves preying upon unsuspecting victims. |
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| It was clearly a haven for thieves, pickpockets, scoundrels, and worse. |
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| Lastly, beggars were never arrested for begging but only when they were acting as pickpockets or muggers. |
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| The marketing for the 'cashless' system tells consumers they are less of a target for muggers or pickpockets, and even credit card fraud. |
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| Extra police officers have been patrolling the streets of Bolton town centre over the festive season in a crackdown on pickpockets, car thieves and bag snatchers. |
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| His juveniles are delinquent, his soldiers unheroic and his pickpockets brave. |
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| But in Covent Garden, there's a breed of worker who are really artists: pickpockets. |
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| Never mind the smell of drains and wilting heat in summer, the pickpockets and the cheating restaurateurs. |
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| To this is added the fact that the Supreme Court plans to submit pickpockets to summary court proceedings. |
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| However, petty theft occurs from cars and hotel rooms, and pickpockets are active in crowded places. |
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| Cloning: Wireless pickpockets can use cloning devices to capture tag information. |
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| Keep important documents-cash and credit cards-in a money belt you can wear under your clothing to keep pickpockets at bay. |
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| LadySuccess is always close to your body and protects your mobile equipment from pickpockets! |
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| The porters, car washers, illegal vendors, barrow haulers, water carriers and pickpockets were all once street children. |
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| Off to the sides, however, the Royal Mile disintegrated into a hopeless muddle of squalid wynds and alleyways peopled by beggars, pickpockets and the poor. |
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| Whether it is day or night, travellers find it unsafe to stay for long hours waiting for buses here as it is the hub of pickpockets and petty thieves. |
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| Keep up your guard against thieves, swindlers, pickpockets? |
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| The judge referred to the time when pickpockets were hanged in England. |
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| People such as prostitutes and pickpockets were judged to be inherently criminal and a threat to the racial community. |
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| The Ponte Vecchio, The San Lorenzo Market and Santa Maria Novella are plagued by pickpockets. |
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| At Farouk's first wedding in 1938, when the young king who was shortly to become a byword for rottenness still seemed a latterday Tutankhamun, even Cairo's pickpockets declared a moratorium for the day. |
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| He loved practical jokes, and allegedly kept a halfpenny in his pocket to trick pickpockets. |
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| Peter's Square is one of the main locations for pickpockets in Vatican City. |
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| If it catches on, it will help bring down the cost of credit for many of the world's 2.5 billion unbanked poor, explains Mr Goldie-Scot. For pickpockets, however, it would be bad news. |
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| Half of the six and seven-year-olds dressed up as gentry, while the rest of the youngsters took on the persona of chimney sweeps and pickpockets. |
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| The gridlocked downtown blocks aren't pretty, with their cracked pavements, stinking drains, seedy bars, pickpockets, rusting tin roofs and ocarina sellers. |
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| By the late 18th century, however, they were regarded as unsavory affairs, as they had become gathering places for pickpockets, thieves, and vagrants. |
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| Consider purchasing a money belt to wear under your clothing or around your neck so that your cash, cards and identification are hidden and out of sight of potential pickpockets. |
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| These days break and enter thieves and pickpockets are stealing more than cash and fancy watches-they may also try and walk away with a piece of you. |
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| She recalls an incident at a summit in Brussels five or six years ago, when some pickpockets had missed the fact that there was a summit in progress. |
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| Like the renegade Victorian juries who compassionately acquitted pickpockets, British audiences tend to reward sweet if patently unco-ordinated underdogs while disposing of contestants who are too obviously trying to win. |
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| Be on your guard against pickpockets in the railway station. |
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