To them, gadje are all potential customers (or targets, in the case of pickpockets).
The TransMilenio buses are horribly overcrowded even at off-peak times, attracting muggers and pickpockets.
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But despite the highly charged atmosphere most of what happened outside parliament was predictable right down to the pickpockets.
Street pickpockets generally work in teams, known as whiz mobs or wire mobs.
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Reading about how street pickpockets operated, Robbins was gratified to discover that he had arrived at similar methods intuitively.
One of the world's most visited museums, the Louvre in Paris, did not open on Wednesday because of a protest by staff over pickpockets.
Instead, the closure came after staff walked off the job on Wednesday in protest against the increasing number of pickpockets operating in the museum.
While it is not unusual to hear about foreigners being targeted by pickpockets and bag snatchers, violent crime involving foreign tourists is relatively rare.
" This group consisted of "people with dubious means of subsistence and of questionable character...vagabonds, failed soldiers, discharged jailbirds, swindlers, lazzaroni, pickpockets, and tricksters.
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In fact, Frommer likes the U.K. government's travel advisories better because they are time-stamped and more detailed, such as giving the number of pickpockets over what period of time in a country.
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"There have always been pickpockets at the Louvre and in tourist locations in Paris, but for the last year-and-a-half the gangs have become increasingly violent, " said museum supervisor Sophie Aguirre.
According to a report in The Guardian, the pickpockets work in organized gangs and are targeting both tourists and museum staff with "increasingly violent tactics, " including spitting and kicking.
In Russia, some bold pickpockets return a "found" wallet to a victim after having scanned credit cards to record numbers, according to a State Department report on crime in that country.
When I'd finally arrive at the square of the Louvre, the pickpockets would smile at me in greeting, while the flower seller pushed a nosegay of bruised violets or tiny pink roses into my hands.
China Central Television and The Beijing News say police have arrested 360 suspects in a nationwide operation to rescue 70 deaf-mute people abducted by criminal gangs to work as burglars and pickpockets.
By far the most famous exponent was a bushy-haired Serbian named Borislav Milojkowic, who went by the stage name Borra, King of the Pickpockets, and became a star of night clubs and circuses throughout Europe.
Young men swept up in the raid are sprung from jail by a councilman seeking their votes, crowds form in the street to pocket cash payments from competing candidates, and campaign rallies, which are joined with religious celebrations, are hardly more than stomping grounds for pickpockets.
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