Aged pickpockets can be adept thieves
( 2003-09-15 17:01) (China Daily)
Officer Zhang Hongjiang, who
has caught many thieves in his time, recalled one of his more interesting
captures - a pickpocket granny - in a Beijing Evening Post article.
"You'd never suspect an elderly woman like her to be a pickpocket," said
Zhang, one of more than 20 top-level officers with the public transport police
force.
The grey-haired 58-year-old woman, dressed in a nondescript grey coat and
carrying a blue nylon bag, stood on the crowded bus just as any other woman her
age might have done.
But when she volunteered to give a stranger directions to a post office, Zhao
saw her hand reach out towards the man's hip as she talked to him and retrieve a
roll of cash.
While he couldn't quite believe his eyes, Zhao grabbed her by the hand in
which she clutched the stolen money.
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