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2011-02-23 9:42 AM

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Subject: America's youth are too lazy to learn useful skills
http://www.slate.com/id/2286010/pagenum/all/#p2

Apprently pickpocketing is dying out here (but not in Europe), because no one wants to learn the craft involved.  Just take the easy way out and pull out a gun or a knife.  No gumption. 

Now get off my lawn!

2011-02-23 9:43 AM
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Back in my day we took pride in our craft. OK no we didn't. People I know would break car windows with a tire iron and steal whatever was in side. Now THAT was easy money. Or so I'm told.
2011-02-23 9:55 AM
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Well, that's just silly. Don't the young 'uns know that pickpocketing is also a highly transferable skill, into areas such as private security and espionage?
2011-02-23 2:00 PM
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TriAya - 2011-02-23 10:55 AM Well, that's just silly. Don't the young 'uns know that pickpocketing is also a highly transferable skill, into areas such as private security and espionage?


Plus what better way to mess with teachers you don't like than to pickpocket their car keys, move their car at lunch time, and return them un-noticed?
2011-02-23 2:06 PM
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gearboy - 2011-02-24 4:00 AM
TriAya - 2011-02-23 10:55 AM Well, that's just silly. Don't the young 'uns know that pickpocketing is also a highly transferable skill, into areas such as private security and espionage?


Plus what better way to mess with teachers you don't like than to pickpocket their car keys, move their car at lunch time, and return them un-noticed?


Stop stalking me.

No wonder my progress reports were so horrible ... you wouldn't believe what we did to those poor teachers ... however, the male ones kept valuables in briefcases or backpacks, and the female ones kept valuables in large purses.
2011-02-23 2:18 PM
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gearboy - 2011-02-23 3:00 PM

TriAya - 2011-02-23 10:55 AM Well, that's just silly. Don't the young 'uns know that pickpocketing is also a highly transferable skill, into areas such as private security and espionage?


Plus what better way to mess with teachers you don't like than to pickpocket their car keys, move their car at lunch time, and return them un-noticed?


My first year teaching, one of my students stole a teacher's car keys and her car out of the school parking lot. He got caught and sent to juvie where he was jumped and killed by members of a rival gang. At least that's what his cousins at school told me happened. 15 years old and putting his skills to work I guess.

All in sunny San Diego.

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