OPINION

Pickpockets, loose women, boasters and bluffers

News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 26/05/2013

» One memorable scene from the 1968 hit musical Oliver! featured Fagin teaching urchins the art of pickpocketing to the tune of You've Got To Pick A Pocket or Two. Fagin's message seems to have been adopted worldwide, as there is hardly a country that doesn't have a pickpocket problem, although one suspects there aren't too many in North Korea. According to the Daily Mail, in Britain alone last year there were an estimated 1,700 cases a day.