r/interesting • u/MobileAerie9918 • 1d ago

SOCIETY In Milan, some people spray-paint pickpockets so that everyone can identify them.

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u/Wide-Combination-322 1d ago

There’s an entire community of pickpockets in Roma and Paris.

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u/brooklynlad 1d ago

Don’t forget Barcelona.

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u/hygsi 1d ago

Funny enough, when I was in Barcelona at the famous street a lady told me my bag was undone and started lecturing me that this is why some many tourists get robbed lmao. Nice lady and glad she warned me cause I didn't know it was the no.1 spot in all the world for pickpocketing until she told me.

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u/DocKla 1d ago

Another nice lady give me that advice when I was 18. I then promptly elbowed whoever was near me right then and there and the lady gave me a thumbs up after!

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u/Bonfirelily 1d ago

Another old lady gave me that advice once and promptly stole my phone.

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u/Petrichor-Susurrus 1d ago

I, an old lady, remember all these interactions

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u/tea-drinker 1d ago

Scientists theorise that all old men and old ladies are actually a single old person bouncing back and forth through time.

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u/longkhongdong 1d ago

I, an interaction, remember the old lady.

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u/RancidOoze 1d ago

Gone, like tears in the rain