A young woman from Tijuana trusted her instincts, and that kept her from falling victim to pickpockets on one of the most popular streets in Milan, Italy.
On her TikTok account, the young woman recounted how, while walking with her husband through the streets of Chinatown in the Lombard capital, two men approached her with every intention of stealing her belongings.
“My husband and I were in Chinatown in Milan, and I was carrying a backpack. I carried it like that in front of me all day, all the time in areas where there were a lot of tourists. I walked like that, but it was very heavy, and after a while I wanted to put it in the back because my back was hurting a lot.
“I could hear people coming behind us, walking as if in a hurry and very close to us and me. I felt pressured to walk quickly. “I just opened my door to the side so they could pass, and they actually passed by super fast,” she explained.
The young woman explained that the way the men were walking seemed suspicious to her, and one way of looking at them helped her realize the risk they were taking and alert her husband to avoid them.
“I can’t explain it, but when we saw each other, I said, ‘Pickpocket, pickpocket.’ And I said, ‘Well, stay quiet, I’ll keep walking.’ So I opened my door again and they passed me again, but now the other guy wasn’t pretending to be on the phone, and they just looked back, just out of the corner of their eye, as if to see if I had caught them,” she said. According to the young woman, during the ten days she spent with her husband in different cities in Italy, they discovered at least eight people involved in stealing from tourists.
“I’d like to tell you a story about how we struggled and how I did it this way, but no, I really didn’t. I think this was the best-case scenario, because we didn’t have a confrontation, but I knew, and they knew, and they knew that I knew,” he concluded.
