The Basics

First and most importantly, these are your objectives. The over all goal of being a pickpocket is taking the wallet of another and placing it in your pocket, for uses as you see fit. You are taking someone else's money for your own. A partener or a team is best for this sort of thing, but being a "cannon", or solo pickpocket is just as easy and plus you get to keep all of the money yourself.

Pickpocketing is a game not only of not only skill and stealth, but of DIVERSION. You don't need to have fast hands (although it helps) as long as the mark's mind is on something else. For instance in a crowded elevator a woman will be thinking about many other thing besides who is standing beside or behind her. In a crowded place it is normal for strangers to press up against each other, so they don't even notice something pressing up against their pocket or purse. If the the pickpocket is good then the mark never feels a thing.

A simple bump and her wallet is now in your pocket. Most people never think twice about it when that person pressed up against them, or bumped into them and that's the key to pickpocketing.       It bares repeating that diversion is the key! The human mind can only concetrate on one things at a time, and its attention is easily deverted.if some one is thinking about something else then their minds won't be on their pockets or purses...and whose hands are in them.        Keep in mind that the human can be distracted easily. To prove this here is a simple test: count to yourself outloud to ten but when youg et to 5 think the word "Batman". Could you think and count at the same time? No, it doesn't work like that. The human mind can only focuse one thing at a time, so if you bump into someone they will feel that and not you slipping thier wallet out of their pocket or purse.

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