@viinewhiip liked for a starter
Pickpocketing wasn’t much of a challenge for speedsters. If they wanted to, they could take a person’s wallet, ruffle through it, draw on all the photos they were carrying around in it and still be picky about the amount of cash they took out of it (right down to exact change), before putting it back, all before their mark could even blink. Which was a good thing for Thad, because he was picky.
Lowering himself to stealing was bad enough, he refused to take more than he needed at any one time and tended toward taking only a few dollars from any one person. Enough that most of the people he stole from would likely assume they had just miscounted how much money they had or assume they’ed misplaced it. It was a habit born more out of being overly cautious than out of any concern for those he took from, but he rationalized that it still somewhat worked in their favor.
The downside was that he needed to take from several people at once, as opposed to just taking from only one or two. And as he made his way through a crowd of what he figured were tourists, he may have been quick but he lacked any real subtlety, counting what he’d snagged from the group right there as he drifted back out of their numbers.