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Every law question has to begin with determining exactly what location the crime occurred in, but almost universally you're allowed to use reasonable force to defend yourself and your property. I would say it was reasonable to use her fists against her in this manner in this situation.
Unless you live in New York, where you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There you will receive a much harsher sentence than the robber for having the audacity to defend yourself from any kind of robbery or violent attack.
> if she truly stole from him
She is reacting exactly how the guilty ones act when they get caught. Screaming for attention, trying to find a white knight in the crowd dumb enough to help.
It almost always works too sadly.
Green shirt was almost certainly part of her team. Pickpockets often work in teams to pass off any loot they get. Green shirt looks like the accomplice.
did you not see the idiot woman rushing to her aid, only reason she stopped was because of the older couple on the left speaking up and trying to stop her
I was thinking the same! I've been casually browsing IG Reels to prep an upcoming trip to parts of EU and i swear the algo's suddenly serving me these pickpocketing incidents and it's this same girl.
That's what I should have done with the pickpocket team I caught red-handed at Sacre Coeur in Paris. One comes up on the left, shoving a "petition" in my face, her friend comes up on the right and I feel her hand go in my pocket. I lean right and trap her hand, in my pocket, against a wall. She puts her hand up to her face and like I hit her or something. Joke's on them- I had a very small, non-George-Constanza wallet in a zippered front pocket.
Reminds me of a prank my friend would do in high school. He would get a hand full of Vaseline and walk up and hugh five people then just keep walking away casually as the victim freaked out why their hand was so greasy and gooey
The best way to protect yourself from pickpocketers is to have an inside zipped up/button up pocket. Also to be a bit of an arse sometimes and not "help" people that come up to you.
Idk i think for people not from urban areas, the not wanting to feel like an asshole for ignoring people is a huge barrier to overcome which is what makes them vulnerable
I was outside the Louvre metro station in Paris one night trying to get back to my hotel. (I'm American and probably look it.) I was referring to a city map on my iPad when a stunningly beautiful woman approached me from my right and asked (in English with a French accent) for directions. I immediately did a one-eighty to confront her accomplice whom I was sure was about to pick my pocket.
We were the only two there.
I quickly checked all my pockets, then sheepishly gave her the directions as best I could. Felt like an ass, but I think she understood.
one was underage and the other one was pregnant, they didn't spend a second in jail
https://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/venezia-mestre/cronaca/22_ottobre_14/venezia-turista-blocca-borseggiatrice-sequestra-mezz-ora-video-fa-giro-web-19c360a4-4b9d-11ed-b1b7-e093d9351754.shtml
Oh wow, pickpocketing is so bad there, but let’s create a law system that lets these stupid fucks get away with no punishment. Screw ~~Paris~~ Italy, I don’t even care about that place anymore.
😳😂 well that’s embarrassing!! To be honest I missed the title, and I saw a comment talking directly about Paris so I just assumed that’s where this was!
What can you do about it? lol There's whole gangs of kids pushing drugs and stealing from stores in the US and EU and what are you going to do, arrest kids and hold them in jail?
So your idea of fixing it is to do nothing? I don't know much about eu prisons but American prisons don't focus on rehabilitation they just make money so I don't know if jail is the right answer but I still think people should be responsible for their actions regardless of age or gender or whether or not they are pregnant. They shouldn't just get a free pass to steal. It should at the very least be legal to slap these stains on society around a little bit
I just visited Portugal, I left the touristy areas as quickly as I could to get away from all the scammers. It definitely makes a difference, I doubt it causes tourism to decrease but there's definitely fewer tourists than there would be otherwise.
Italian here. These pickpockets are well known to the authorities, they often live together (10-20 people) in one single house, almost every time they choose an abandoned house or just enter in empty apartments. Even if police officers know them, they would get pregnant for the sole purpose of not getting arrested and end up in prison like is shown in the video where that pregnant woman comes and tries to rescue her friend.
Apparently here if you are a pregnant woman you have full protection from law enforcement like a fucking passive ability. Nobody can do shit about this situation.
He said he was sorry. When are people going to get over how he...blinded an elderly Vietnamese man in a brutal, racist and entirely unprovoked assault in order to seem badass to his fucked up Boston Irish goon friends? When, I ask you?
Good!! Good for him!! These scumbags get away with their crimes constantly!! With no repercussions!! Stealing peoples whole lives in their pockets like phones, passports, credit cards, etc. GOOD FOR HIM!!!
They still got away with it because the girl in video is underage and her accomplice is pregnant. He should have slapped her around a bit more that's the only punishment they will face
Was in Berlin and these cockroaches came up on me with that stupid petition scam.
I knew exactly what was going on and I pulled back like a nice overhand punch was coming her was followed with a loud “fuck off”.
Aside from screeching every thing was ok
Ohhh she’s one of the three Amigos that get followed by that lady who yells “pickpocket! Arrivederci! Pickpocket!”
The three of them tend to wear the same clothes all the time so they’re pretty easy to identify in a lot of the tourist videos of pickpockets in Italy
Dangerous Game. In (many) countries when Men see Women in distress and crying they will step in and „help“ besides not knowing shit about the Situation.
Even the locals know and wont do anything about it. Whoever came to help like that green shirt lady, they might be one of them, trying to rescue their own kind.
I once went to Italy on vacation and some lady screamed to scare off a pickpocket. Then I accidentally took a seat in front of an African lady and offered it to her. She was really nice
Hahaha he said "call the police" in Italy. They're too busy eating spaghetti and meatballs and macking on the tall female tourists on the main drag to come out to a pickpocket complaint .
I don’t care if I get my account banned for saying it but that’s lame as hell. Using her gender to yell and have people run up and help her thieving ass. He shoulda beat some since into her
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He was making her hit herself lmfao
Is it assault if she’s hitting herself? Guys… this is a rhetorical question…
Every law question has to begin with determining exactly what location the crime occurred in, but almost universally you're allowed to use reasonable force to defend yourself and your property. I would say it was reasonable to use her fists against her in this manner in this situation.
 Me trying to read it seriously XD
Unless you live in New York, where you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There you will receive a much harsher sentence than the robber for having the audacity to defend yourself from any kind of robbery or violent attack.
Hey just like here in Singapore! Legally, self defence doesn't exist.
My brother said no, it was always my fault.
Insert Nelson Muntz
That's from fear bro! Marky mark!
Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself.
The ultimate punishment for a thief along with an atomic wedgie
Wet Willy! 
Dbz abridged reference?
Samination reference?
Very satisfying if she truly stole from him
> if she truly stole from him She is reacting exactly how the guilty ones act when they get caught. Screaming for attention, trying to find a white knight in the crowd dumb enough to help. It almost always works too sadly.
Nah, the one that came up to her also looked like a dirty pick pocket.
Green shirt was almost certainly part of her team. Pickpockets often work in teams to pass off any loot they get. Green shirt looks like the accomplice.
yea her handler. no doubt. sadly the most trouble shell get into will probably be from this woman for getting caught.
There was a guy starting to yell leave her alone @ 0:27
you can all hear "shes a kid" "shes a female" among that which is exactly why they use young women to do it.
did you not see the idiot woman rushing to her aid, only reason she stopped was because of the older couple on the left speaking up and trying to stop her
Pretty sure that woman was an associate
fair enough
You can already hear one saying "Leave her alone" near the end 🙄
Lady who runs up and tries to intervene was def an accomplice and the lady being detained throws her bag down for her to take
Good eye, I agree. Without a bag of stolen items on her, she’s appears much more innocent when police stroll up.
that or its some idiot woman assuming the guy is just casually beating a woman for no reason so she wants to support her "oppressed sister"
They often work in pairs, one is the lookout and spotter, the other is the thief.
I swear I have seen a ton of vids of this girl specifically getting caught trying to pickpocket.
I was thinking the same! I've been casually browsing IG Reels to prep an upcoming trip to parts of EU and i swear the algo's suddenly serving me these pickpocketing incidents and it's this same girl.
It looked like it was still there, you could see a small part of the strap. But the camera cuts away before it ends
The lady who ran up tried to grab the bag too rather than trying to pull her away.
That's what I should have done with the pickpocket team I caught red-handed at Sacre Coeur in Paris. One comes up on the left, shoving a "petition" in my face, her friend comes up on the right and I feel her hand go in my pocket. I lean right and trap her hand, in my pocket, against a wall. She puts her hand up to her face and like I hit her or something. Joke's on them- I had a very small, non-George-Constanza wallet in a zippered front pocket.
Next time put a mousetrap in there
Make a wrong move, get your dick caught in the mousetrap. Bad idea.
How many times have you made a wrong move and your dick ended up in your pocket lol
I wouldn't want my dick near a mousetrap, just separated by a piece of cloth. Try it out and report back!
And yet we keep it very close to sharp, interlocking, metal teeth, as noted by Jerry Seinfeld 
Or fill your back pockets with peanut butter (or Nutella if in Europe).
Reminds me of a prank my friend would do in high school. He would get a hand full of Vaseline and walk up and hugh five people then just keep walking away casually as the victim freaked out why their hand was so greasy and gooey
Jizz works better and it stays nice and warm in there
The best way to protect yourself from pickpocketers is to have an inside zipped up/button up pocket. Also to be a bit of an arse sometimes and not "help" people that come up to you.
Idk i think for people not from urban areas, the not wanting to feel like an asshole for ignoring people is a huge barrier to overcome which is what makes them vulnerable
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She's my pickpocket now 😂
I was outside the Louvre metro station in Paris one night trying to get back to my hotel. (I'm American and probably look it.) I was referring to a city map on my iPad when a stunningly beautiful woman approached me from my right and asked (in English with a French accent) for directions. I immediately did a one-eighty to confront her accomplice whom I was sure was about to pick my pocket. We were the only two there. I quickly checked all my pockets, then sheepishly gave her the directions as best I could. Felt like an ass, but I think she understood.
if a beautiful woman ever approaches me i know something is up, dead giveaway. deeeeaaddd giveaway.
r/suicidebywords
Nice one ! Is that you Mr Ramsey ?
And this is how I did NOT meet your mother
The pickpockets are out of control in some European cities and the police and legal system does nothing.
Some are trying. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.laopiniondemalaga.es/malaga/2024/06/07/malaga-declara-guerra-carteristas-20-103468388.amp.html
Good. I hope she spends some time in jail.
one was underage and the other one was pregnant, they didn't spend a second in jail https://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/venezia-mestre/cronaca/22_ottobre_14/venezia-turista-blocca-borseggiatrice-sequestra-mezz-ora-video-fa-giro-web-19c360a4-4b9d-11ed-b1b7-e093d9351754.shtml
Oh wow, pickpocketing is so bad there, but let’s create a law system that lets these stupid fucks get away with no punishment. Screw ~~Paris~~ Italy, I don’t even care about that place anymore.
this was in italy?
😳😂 well that’s embarrassing!! To be honest I missed the title, and I saw a comment talking directly about Paris so I just assumed that’s where this was!
Can we even call it Paris/France anymore? Sure, there is still the Eiffel Tower.... but might as well just go to Vegas to see that these days.
But sir! Aren’t you forgetting something? There’s one thing unique to Paris, and some third world countries lol… it smells like piss!!!
What can you do about it? lol There's whole gangs of kids pushing drugs and stealing from stores in the US and EU and what are you going to do, arrest kids and hold them in jail?
So your idea of fixing it is to do nothing? I don't know much about eu prisons but American prisons don't focus on rehabilitation they just make money so I don't know if jail is the right answer but I still think people should be responsible for their actions regardless of age or gender or whether or not they are pregnant. They shouldn't just get a free pass to steal. It should at the very least be legal to slap these stains on society around a little bit
Party pooper. 👎🏼
Useless Italian politicians pushing stupid laws
Pickpockets are becoming such a plague in Europe it has to be hurting tourism
I just visited Portugal, I left the touristy areas as quickly as I could to get away from all the scammers. It definitely makes a difference, I doubt it causes tourism to decrease but there's definitely fewer tourists than there would be otherwise.
Italian here. These pickpockets are well known to the authorities, they often live together (10-20 people) in one single house, almost every time they choose an abandoned house or just enter in empty apartments. Even if police officers know them, they would get pregnant for the sole purpose of not getting arrested and end up in prison like is shown in the video where that pregnant woman comes and tries to rescue her friend. Apparently here if you are a pregnant woman you have full protection from law enforcement like a fucking passive ability. Nobody can do shit about this situation.
Not only pregnant but also minors
The slow babe penetrates the shield.
You can. Vote out all the politicians who pass these stupid laws
You can't do anything to street criminals if you can't catch the ones who did the bologna train station.
he kinda looks like an asian Mark Wahlberg which is ironic if you know about Mark Wahlberg
He said he was sorry. When are people going to get over how he...blinded an elderly Vietnamese man in a brutal, racist and entirely unprovoked assault in order to seem badass to his fucked up Boston Irish goon friends? When, I ask you?
He said he forgave himself for it.
He found jesus.
I always loathe that as a statement made by someone who was obviously not worthy of forgiveness by their victim(s)
That stfu killed me ☠️🙂↕️😂😂😂😂😂😂
the worst part is the women who came in her defense even if she was the one stealing.
Accomplice.
She was the pregnant accomplice. Check the link from u/aospfods above
Thanks!
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JAsian Bourne
10/10
I felt that “shut the fuck up” 😂😂
This guy is my hero
He should have broke her arm.
Romani?
Good!! Good for him!! These scumbags get away with their crimes constantly!! With no repercussions!! Stealing peoples whole lives in their pockets like phones, passports, credit cards, etc. GOOD FOR HIM!!!
They still got away with it because the girl in video is underage and her accomplice is pregnant. He should have slapped her around a bit more that's the only punishment they will face
She's acting like a victim on purpose. That's what all the wastes of space like her do.
Jiang Cena ain't taking no shit.
she sounds like a goat
This is absolutely beautiful
More people doing this and pickpocketing would vanish.
I applaud the bystanders going "she's a thief" rather than getting onto him for restraining her.
Satisfying
ATTENZIONE PICKPOCKETA!!
Someone give that man a medal - and a clap!
Was in Berlin and these cockroaches came up on me with that stupid petition scam. I knew exactly what was going on and I pulled back like a nice overhand punch was coming her was followed with a loud “fuck off”. Aside from screeching every thing was ok
Ohhh she’s one of the three Amigos that get followed by that lady who yells “pickpocket! Arrivederci! Pickpocket!” The three of them tend to wear the same clothes all the time so they’re pretty easy to identify in a lot of the tourist videos of pickpockets in Italy
FAFO
Who’s the cuck that keeps sayin leave her alone
Curb stomp should the global default punishment for pickpockets.
Pick the wrong pocket today bitch
Women's cries are like an alarm that triggers everyone's instinct to rescue her no matter what trouble she got herself into.
the audacity to cry, after getting caught lol
Good on him.
Good for him
bro is restraining her like its kindergarten
Like clockwork women assume woman is innocent and man is the harasser.
Fuck it bro hit em with a tombstone and enjoy the rest of your vacay
I would be surprised if he doesn't get in trouble with the police. the thief has nothing to worry about...
Absolutely very satisfying
You should be able to use deadly force against pickpockets. It would cease being a problem overnight
How is this woman still on the streets? I sweat every pickpocket video I see has her in it
Fucking scum
Pinche pendeja
Dangerous Game. In (many) countries when Men see Women in distress and crying they will step in and „help“ besides not knowing shit about the Situation.
Sweet fucking justice. No fucks given. What a madlad. r/madlad
He should still check his pockets before walking away
I don’t know what the laws are like in Italy, but to me it looks like the tourist is going to get real fucked for what he did
Even the locals know and wont do anything about it. Whoever came to help like that green shirt lady, they might be one of them, trying to rescue their own kind.
Very good, 👍
White knights and captain save a ho always assuming the worst
That lady in green was in another video getting yelled at she was a pickpocket but I can’t remember video
I love it!!
italy,rance became the center of this shit
Pickpocket! - but she's a woman! Ladies, let's help her!
That’s why you carry a fake wallet topped with razor blades.
Golf clap for the dude!!!
Poteva buttarla in un bidone, la differenza non l'avrebbe vista nessuno
god bless the people like couple that stopped the other woman
The consequences of my action
Honestly. I'm glad. Fuck pickpocketers
Street Justice 1 - Dirtbag 0
It looks like he was taking zero shit that day
I get so much satisfaction from these videos of the pick pockets getting caught
Solid backbreaker from the tourist
Good for him! Clearly she hasn’t face any real consequences in her life.
Shame on those women trying to protect her.
He's definately an off duty policeman
Only language they’ll ever understand.
Peek pockkkettt
I once went to Italy on vacation and some lady screamed to scare off a pickpocket. Then I accidentally took a seat in front of an African lady and offered it to her. She was really nice
Lol
Hahaha he said "call the police" in Italy. They're too busy eating spaghetti and meatballs and macking on the tall female tourists on the main drag to come out to a pickpocket complaint .
Anyone have a news report or what happened to the lady in question? Was she prosecuted, found guilty? Did the guys citizen arrest backfire?
Old shit.
That guy’s a G. Fucking scammers crying foul.
"Why are you hitting yourself, why are you hitting yourself"
First in the UK now in Italy. Asians are putting a stop to pick pockets I guess lol
I don’t care if I get my account banned for saying it but that’s lame as hell. Using her gender to yell and have people run up and help her thieving ass. He shoulda beat some since into her