Welcome to my blog today as I share my experience with a pick-pocket but in this case maybe I will call him a 'pick-bag'.
I live in the capital city of Delta State in Nigeria. We get to hear tales of how you can be robbed in broad daylight in bigger cities like Lagos but never thought it would come to our doorsteps.
I boarded a taxi on my way back from immunizing my baby with my bag on my laps closer to the back of the driver's seat and my baby placed carefully in-between the bag and myself. I didn't feel a thing as I was trying to soothe my baby who was still crying after the immunization.
My instinct just told me to move my bag and when I did, I felt his hand pulling out of the bag. Wao! I didn't expect this but I quickly drew my bag closer to me and removed the monies I place in the two side pouches into the main bag and zipped it. The perpetrator of this crime had pretended to be reading a magazine which he craftily placed in a strategic way to cover my bag from my view while he carried out his stealing activities.
As I made sure everything was intact in my bag, which it was, he (the pick-pocket) beckoned on the driver and alighted from the taxi. After the incident, I made sure I never placed things in the side pouches and to keep my bag where my eyes can see them.
My town used to be safe or so I thought, until the incident. I'm happy I didn't fall a victim but I want to use this to reach out to others to be careful and conscious of their environment. In as much as we expect people to be good and all, we should come to the reality that bad people do exist, and its not written on the forehead.
Don't fall a victim!
Until I post again, be SAFE!!!
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