Pick Pockets

I've always heard that pick pocketers were terrible in Prague; however, I can now say that I have seen them at work. While waiting for our train out of Prague, we were sitting on a random bench, some of us with our blackberries. Laura made a comment about how one guy looked a little shady and that we should keep our eyes on him. While he was pretty far away from us at the time, we did not want to risk anything, so we put our blackberries away and just sat people watching. That was when we noticed him scouting. He would scout the crowd, talk to a random person, then walk away. He wandered around talked to a few other people, but never really stayed with them, always lingering alone and without luggage. Finally, we watched him walk away, with all of the random people he had been talking to, the interesting thing was that he was walking as though he didn't know his friends. They were working as a team. We were too alert for them to try to take on the five of us, especially with our backs to a wall, but it was very interesting to see them and to realize what they were.