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awesome man!
i've never been robbed but i've seen it happen a few times. me and my brother once chased this guy who grabbed an old ladies' purse for a few blocks until he gave up and just dropped it (we're both pretty fast runners, needless to say that lady was happy)
just a few days ago i suddeny heard a lot of noise in the street. when looking out of the window we saw that two guys had tried to grab a wallet or bag from some people sitting outside a bar. one guy got away but they grabbed the other once and knocked him to the ground. he didn't speak dutch and very little english so he was just lying there with his tracksuit bottoms halfway down and the guys standing around him yelling he had to stay down and pushing him back all the time. they called the police and made him lie on the ground until they arrived. i've never heard a grown man cry that hard, even though he was a pickpocket, it was pretty difficult not to feel sorry for him... my guess is that he was an illegal immigrant and that he knew they were going to find out now and send him back.
apparently there's this trick they do now: you are walking down the street when suddenly a guy comes dancing around you, acting all drunk and silly. it's funny, but when you go on your wallet turns out to be gone!
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