My Experience with A Pick-Pocket
Welcome to my blog today as I share my experience with a pick-pocket but in this case maybe I will call him a 'pick-bag'.
I live in the capital city of Delta State in Nigeria. We get to hear tales of how you can be robbed in broad daylight in bigger cities like Lagos but never thought it would come to our doorsteps.
I boarded a taxi on my way back from immunizing my baby with my bag on my laps closer to the back of the driver's seat and my baby placed carefully in-between the bag and myself. I didn't feel a thing as I was trying to soothe my baby who was still crying after the immunization.
My instinct just told me to move my bag and when I did, I felt his hand pulling out of the bag. Wao! I didn't expect this but I quickly drew my bag closer to me and removed the monies I place in the two side pouches into the main bag and zipped it. The perpetrator of this crime had pretended to be reading a magazine which he craftily placed in a strategic way to cover my bag from my view while he carried out his stealing activities.
As I made sure everything was intact in my bag, which it was, he (the pick-pocket) beckoned on the driver and alighted from the taxi. After the incident, I made sure I never placed things in the side pouches and to keep my bag where my eyes can see them.
My town used to be safe or so I thought, until the incident. I'm happy I didn't fall a victim but I want to use this to reach out to others to be careful and conscious of their environment. In as much as we expect people to be good and all, we should come to the reality that bad people do exist, and its not written on the forehead.
Don't fall a victim!
Until I post again, be SAFE!!!
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Safety is paramount when you are outside with people you barely know or don't know at all.
As with your incident in the taxi, people also need to be aware of the pickpockets on steemit, never follow a link you do not know where ti goes to such as a hidden or tiny url link. never give your password to any site unless you know exactly where you are. As you said, people in real life need to be aware of their surroundings, and the same goes for steemit.
Yes, this is another perspective to it which I didn't think about. Thanks for commenting and stating it.
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Thanks to God he didn't take anything from you. Pick-pocketing is fast becoming the desperate recourse of low lives. I shake my head to their future.
I was so grateful to God that day, I can't imagine what would have happened that day.
I am glad you are OK
Its a shame but you always have to be careful . Bad guys come in all shapes and forms and are everywhere
Yes, and I've come to realize that they look so innocent at times.
Well, this sounds all too familiar being from Nairobi, Kenya
Pick pocketers all over. Prevention is better at all costs when usimg public means of transport. I appreciate this post @floxycool
You have to be careful, thank God you got over it.
I have to be. I'm happy it wasn't that bad.