#pickpocket

[one-time-i-dreamt]

A small child stopped me on the street, said, ‘Hey, wanna see me pickpocket you?’ And proceeded to do exactly that. I was so shocked I just let them do it and then woke up and checked for my wallet.

[funeral]

Pickpocket (1959) dir. Robert Bresson

[atwellfilm]

Angela Bassett's reaction to Hayley listing all the things she stole from the Mission: Impossible set 😅

[rapplesart]

Dc x Dp prompt - Danny vs. The weird dude that let's him pickpocket everything of his.

Danny is homeless in metropolis ( because let's change it up from batman alright). The kryptonian population of the city actually served as a decent cover up for any glowing green weirdness. It was easy to just blame it on the big bad of the day.

However, compared to crime ridden Gotham next door it is way harder to find good paying work as a undocumented teen with a questionable background and set of skills. So yes, Danny is homeless.

Of course he is not the only homeless person in the city. Homeless people are everywhere and somehow he ends up getting involved in a gang of pickpocketing kids. The deal is simple : you can join their shelter, a decent uninhabited house that the city forgot to turn the water off from, in exchange for a percentage of your weekly steals. Additionally you also have to pay a General protection fee.

It's realistically a bad deal of course but compared to the unprotected streets of metropolis, a city where laser beams and alien invasions are part of the daily hazards, it's the best you're gonna get.

On Danny's first two weeks of stealing he's being trained by a few of the older ones. They show him how to spit easy targets, how to distinguish between tourists and locals and how to run if you get caught.

Danny gets the hang of it quickly with a little bit of ghostly touch.

On his first day alone he spots someone who seems to be the perfect target. An Office worker with neat clothes so he obviously has a stable form of income, therefore a better chance for good loot. The guy also looked nerdy with his thick glasses, bad eyesight also being an advantage when tricking someone off their money. The guys steps seem clumsy his back is drawn to itself in a way that made him look clumsy in his own body rather than protective if his things.

All in all the guy screamed target. So Danny makes quick work of bumping into him, snatching his wallet and taking out the cash. The 70$ he finds are am excellent treat that would guarantee food and shelter for the week if he was careful. However, part of him still felt bad, the guy didn't do anything wrong after all.

In the end Danny only takes 50 and returns the wallet pretending to find it on the street. He really didn't think about the interaction afterwards, instead choosing to focus on some rich looking tourists next.

Except two weeks later Danny was struggling to meet his quota. It was raining heavily and he couldn't afford a week on the street. No tourists came out in such weather and it was hard to find a good target. Until he spots the man again. This time bumping into him from behind.

In all honesty it was sloppy work. He was tired, wet and hungry. Danny could see the moment the guy clocked him as a thief, the slight tense of muscles when the man was ready to strike for the stealing kid. Danny knew he couldn't outrun this so he was prepared for what's to come. Except the guy relaxed and deliberately moved in a way that made the wallet MORE accessible. It was strange.

Once again he only took a portion before returning the rest. But this time he couldn't stop thinking about the encounter.

The next time he saw the guy he deliberately chose him and once again the man conveniently moved to make his valuables accessible for pickpoters.

Danny took it as a challenge. Stealing a wallet from the man became stealing the watch, phone, ipod, coffee, belt, shoe. Each time the items became more and more ridiculous but teh man just kept letting Danny steal his things.

It mad the halfa wonder how far he could take it.....

[thatpollguy]

Thanks to @about-that-teenie-girl for the poll request!

Have you ever shoplifted something?

Yes, more than once

Yes, just once

No, but I considered it

No, and I would never do that

Kind of - I accidentally forgot to pay or thought I'd put it back on the shelf!

Voting ended onJan 14

[cosmonautroger]

Pickpocket, 1959

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Pickpocket Équateur à Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas

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Pickpocket (1959) dir. Robert Bresson