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Pickpockets are also very active in grocery stores and restaurants in Chinatown.
6 }- l$ g5 e$ S8 A8 TMy friends have seen a few cases.
* {4 _5 z' i0 S zI personally saw a victim in distress after her purse was stolen while dining in the buffet restaurant, Jade garden.
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) k1 K7 j4 l+ q. e4 v; }* XNot only pickpockets, 8 @& C5 m" J- P7 z" I
as far as I know,
8 ]+ W; F5 n4 H$ _# |$ v1 Tthere have been a few cases of robberies
- U2 n( f! A2 X2 D& Uin the middle of the day in Chinatown.& n# o7 i. w! o; X% @6 ^, e z
# U- A" d* l9 G k' {* mOne hot spot I know of
8 Z6 v5 u( _3 k" X tis behind The Chinese hospital, near the Chiu Chow association, on La Gauchetire st.E.0 Y/ a& J/ {& N8 f) O/ i' ~
There is usually not much pedestrian traffic.
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$ c8 b3 y/ S7 ^2 o0 S9 E( ^- W0 g- }3 iMy friend was robbed of her shoulder bag by brute force from behind at about 11am on one Sunday morning a few months ago.
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; J# J3 }& V6 d/ \; x5 A$ FThe robber and his accomplice waited in a car
, X& w8 i& m" Yfor a while in that area looking for people to rob. My friend didn't see anyone on the street
# o* P/ \2 o% G% s- Kuntil the robber emerged from a car behind her.
' d+ g) g. v' ]+ kAfter taking my friend's bag, he ran into a waiting car and sped away.
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) l) s: b2 P3 C4 `7 HApparently the same people had done it before# z; d6 `( M4 E3 x
in the exact same area a few times, E; E' c2 J4 l; Z8 C# j9 L
before my friend's case,
( P; J/ k4 j; C* {then still robbed some more people since then.
) z0 C/ o# q' t: q6 s( cSo far the victims have been women.4 d+ F8 n, F X, [
2 y, S" b2 L! j" q! BIf you walk in that area,
+ ]" S: ^& P/ k$ ?it is a good idea not to walk alone,% ^; n0 P5 A; a1 F
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