This is a bit like not challenging a pickpocket because the poor fellow might get huffy.

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If He sees a pickpocket around the corner, He will not go around that corner.

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Robbins, who is thirty-eight and lives in Las Vegas, is a peculiar variety-arts hybrid, known in the trade as a theatrical pickpocket.

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The movie also stars a sullen, stolid Leonardo DiCaprio as a young Irish immigrant eager to avenge the death of his father, Cameron Diaz as a prostitute and pickpocket, Liam Neeson as a fallen Irish leader, and Jim Broadbent as the corrupt political boss William Tweed.

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One winter morning, Robbins and I drove four and a half hours north from Las Vegas, through the desert, to the Tonopah Conservation Camp, a minimum-security prison, where a pickpocket named Gary Scott was serving time.

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The Nottingham-born player stayed on the right side of the law earlier this year when he broke his right wrist attempting to stop a pickpocket from stealing his friend's wallet - an injury which has put his top 16 place in jeopardy.

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