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A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.

I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

I'm very picky in what I wear.

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all.

We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's done the design; someone else who's cut the suit; someone else who's measured it. Basically, your job is to just wear it.

The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

You may be less likely to pick on someone if you don't know what's in their briefcase or purse.