Pickpocketing Caught Live in Lyon France

My wife and I were in Lyon in front of St Jean Baptiste Cathedral and we accidentally caught two girls pickpocketing right in front of us.
If you plan on visiting Lyon in the near future, or any eurotrip for that matter, be on guard for the tactics that they use.
#lyon #france #pickpocket #pickpocketers

[@gcalebmedia]

For those who think this may have been staged, I have an entire walkthrough video (part 1) and you can see we were exploring old town for quite a while before even getting to the cathedral. The pickpocketing is also seen in that video. You also see us talking to him to check to see if anything was taken (nothing was). It was my wife’s idea to make this short version to capture people’s attention and get to the point as most viewers would probably miss this portion of the tour in our 30 minute video. Thanks for those who were supportive, and pickpocketers are of all race and genders (just look at what’s going on in London).

[@alexadey3413]

The finest example of European culture... Romanian lifters

[@jimmyvargas9282]

I travel through Europe n when someone get too close walk away. Keep your distance from anybody.

[@gcalebmedia]

This makes a lot of sense!

[@robertcarter8600]

Thanks! Wish you hundreds of thousands of views.

[@zealousideal]

Use backpack with hidden zippers or wear on front when in big crowds.

[@tomanderson1942]

Crazy because they seemed to notice you recording them from close behind.

[@vickikay54]

They don't care. The police will do nothing.

[@tomanderson1942]

@@vickikay54True, no deterrent. I did see videos where they are just called out loudly as pickpockets and they scurry away. Good idea to have lookouts in popular places to announce their presence.

[@jasmine1380]

Wife here (I was the one who suggested making this video). They had no idea they were being filmed - my husband was wearing his travel camera, which is a small black box that faces the front, attached to his backpack strap

[@phillipwatson9906]

Wear the backpack as a frontpack when visiting any large city

[@Zipperneck.]

Roma girls

[@Shauma_llama]

Figures

[@t.d.186]

racist vid man

[@Kate-qq3ez]

@@t.d.186unfortunately this is not racist it is the truth. There are gangs of Romanian people using young girls ( sometimes boys but rarely) for begging, pickpocketing all over touristic places and in subways, queues, etc… it is a fact.

[@steelcom5976]

You should have alerted the victim as soon as you saw it happening to interrupt the potential theft. It seems like you were more focused on your video.

[@gcalebmedia]

We didn’t realized until we were inside and then we told the gentleman, we just didn’t include our conversation as that wasn’t the point of the convo

[@steelcom5976]

@@gcalebmedia Your defense makes no sense. Outside you were recording the 3 women suspects as they were walking away from the Church and then continued to record them as 2 of them moved quickly towards the building where a line was forming, following the victim. You had the camera squarely on those women during the whole process. You even did a close up of the woman sticking her fingers inside the backpack (???). A better explanation is that you wanted a video of a robbery as it was happening to pretend to help KZbinrs avoid being pickpocketed, when really you wanted a clean video of a successful robbery with no intervention by yourselves and more YT clics. The best explanation shows you being completely immoral.

[@jasmine1380]

@@steelcom5976hello, wife here (who came up with the idea of making this video). My husband had his travel camera on (a small black box that just attaches to his backpack strap in the front) our whole trip to capture our trip. I was the one who saw what the girl was doing, but only right before getting into the cathedral. Right after I saw, we got in the building and alerted the tourist. In this video, you see this whole thing taking place as if in slow motion, but this all happened very quickly. Based on what I saw right before entering the cathedral, I asked my husband to show me everything he captured, and lo and behold, the pickpocketers were in his film from the very beginning and we caught the whole operation. Hence I thought we should make this video. Hope that clarifies!

[@ButcherBird-FW190D]

I travel with a cheap, fake wallet with notes the size of the local currency, with very "bad" words written on them. I also carry a shopping bag with sealed ziploc bags containing dog droppings.

[@zealousideal]

Yeah I do similar things too to mess with them back. Fake wallets. Fake money. Fake cards. Bags of poop. lol 😂. May as well have fun with them

[@alexadey3413]

@@zealousideal need to disguise the poo as something edible....lol 🤣😆

[@fantomas1498]

I am just waiting for such girls. This pocket of my backpack, which I don't use at all, is full of fixed fishing hooks, so she will stay with me for a while and I will walk faster and faster.

[@isay207]

Backpacks should be locked

[@ameurus]

The YT just removed my comment.Their ethnicity stars with letter G.

[@blueabattoir]

Is it Gypsie?

[@ameurus]

@@blueabattoir Yes, who else?...I don't like YT policy of protecting criminals and encouraging such behaviors.

[@fmcm7715]

@@blueabattoirit’s gypsy. Plural gypsies. We have them in Dublin too. They’re all over Europe.

[@adavanja5682]

You mean 'R'.

[@PROGAMING-yu5ef]

You did not really catch them, just watched them.

[@SK-lt1so]

Distraction is also very common. I had someone ask me to take a picture of them in Florence, Italy. Someone tried to pickpocket me from behind. A tourist guide shouted a warning, I gave the guy his camera back and he just smiled.

[@gcalebmedia]

Wow that’s really elaborate…yeah it’s really jarring in the middle of it all

[@LoverOFhopeANDcompassion]

So did you notify him? Crazy not to

[@gcalebmedia]

Of course! If you see the last frame we're talking to him letting him know to check his bag to see if anything was taken

[@mountblanc39]

Saudi guy : " pickpocket? Never heard before"

[@Lesloi6227]

You did a good job identifying what was going to happen.

[@gcalebmedia]

It was my wife! I had no idea..

[@kimmarsh5387]

It is getting worse unfortunately.

[@kevinsenior8155]

Always Romanian. Welcome to Europe.

[@walkingparisiantman-js4nb]

[@alexarenas6324]

Put some snake in your back pack!

[@bobboberson2024]

Staged or not - this is a good lesson for travelers: keep your head on a swivel among the masses. And always beware of the SCARF. A classic ruse.

[@gcalebmedia]

Absolutely!!!

[@janineferguson8338]

Hey dude with camera how about yelling attention pickpockets and warn people

[@mediumrick7667]

And you just happen to be right on theirs backs videoing? And they didn't even appear to notice you? I've traveled extensively in Europe and I know pickpocketing does occur. But this looks staged for the camera.

[@vickikay54]

Definitely not staged....they simply don't care. They know nothing will happen to them. ☹️

[@surfturfnz1879]

Sacré Bleu! Thieving witches 🧙‍♀️🧙

[@kittoybig]

Pickpocket will be greatly reduced if the locals and cops take action instead of letting the tourists fend for themselves. They want tourists money but do nothing about the pickpockets. Shame on you!

[@Mike-dn7ut]

Isn’t multiculturalism great !

[@cam0mute]

Naww, li'l gassy. So cute 😂

[@peterframtid5168]

They’re white though

[@Mike-dn7ut]

@@peterframtid5168 how racist are you?

[@cristicoaje7116]

300 years of tolerance in Europe

[@1005wiking]

Smells like Sarmale and cooking oil.

[@ducnguyen-iv9px]

Mostly they are young girls and if the police catch them then they will be on streets again!