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  • Does This Couple’s Holiday Snap Show A Pickpocket Unfastening Their Missing Watch?

    28 Sep 2016 by Sloane Hunter in Crime, Lifestyle, Nixon, Travel, Vibe
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    Pickpocketing in popular tourist destinations is nothing new. From watches to wallets, if your eye is focused on the beauty of your surroundings rather than your possessions, you may leave with only your memories.

    A Reddit user posted an image that alluded to the idea that it was the moment his girlfriend’s watch was being taken off her wrist.

    Here’s the story, according to The Telegraph:

    A man and his girlfriend got back from a trip to Thailand and couldn’t figure out what happened to the woman’s watch. Then they started looking at photos from the trip, and one shows a young Thai girl in ceremonial garb who appears to be fiddling with the watch at the precise moment the photo was taken.

    Here’s the picture:

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    The post has since been deleted from Reddit as the user has been accused of assumptions. The Telegraph continues:

    “This pic solved the mystery of the missing watch,” writes the unidentified poster, who thinks he snapped an image of a pickpocket in action.

    The post generated so much attention that police in Thailand brought in the two pictured girls for questioning with their parents, and the parents adamantly deny the allegation, notes a post at Khaosod English.

    According to the police, the parents of the kids would have filed a complaint against the false accusation had the couple still been in Thailand. Apparently the parents were upset that people could think her daughter, 7, could do such a thing – but Reddit users had other things to say:

    Notice how the thief is touching her hand in several places? It’s a pickpocket technique so that the mark gets accustomed to being touched by the thief and stops registering all of the touches.

    The man who posted the photograph admitted they were “a bit drunk”  and that it was a cheap watch – thank the high heavens it wasn’t a Nixon otherwise tears would have really flowed.

    [source:newser&telegraph]

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