High barrier to entry. I expect that at my current skill level I’d get caught pick-pocketing the first time I tried it, and that would impact my ability to try it a second time.
I would expect that you could probably practice on a targets that won’t call the cops on you first (you could try reaching into large jacket pockets or purses and removing appropriate objects to make sure you don’t jostle them). I am not a thief, have never pick-pocketed anyone and this was just the first idea that popped into my head.
No, you practice first. For instance, when I was a magician and trying to do watch steals, I would wrap a towel around a broom handle, put the watch around that, and practice the motion over and over again before I tried to do it in the real world.
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If you add “socially useful” or “not immoral” obviously this is excluded.
High barrier to entry. I expect that at my current skill level I’d get caught pick-pocketing the first time I tried it, and that would impact my ability to try it a second time.
I would expect that you could probably practice on a targets that won’t call the cops on you first (you could try reaching into large jacket pockets or purses and removing appropriate objects to make sure you don’t jostle them). I am not a thief, have never pick-pocketed anyone and this was just the first idea that popped into my head.
As a first idea that popped into your head that’s not so bad. You can practice at home first.
No, you practice first. For instance, when I was a magician and trying to do watch steals, I would wrap a towel around a broom handle, put the watch around that, and practice the motion over and over again before I tried to do it in the real world.