Midnight sun in Stockholm
byA family visit to Stockholm turned into a media circus. How did they know we were in town? First was an interview for an…
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Video surveillance
byWho’s looking at you when you buy a coffee? It’s creepy, when you know all they can see. At the World Game Protection Conference…
Bob Arno’s path to pickpocketing
byAt the fork in the road I went left. I can thank the Parsis for my passion for photojournalism. Another man might have turned…
Shoebox-camera
byOver the years we minimized our equipment as we acquired smaller and smaller cameras of broadcast quality. With lighter equipment we became more maneuverable,…
Naples: capital city of pickpockets, part 4 of 4
byCity of Hugs and Thugs. Naples, Italy— At the next stop, two more suspects pushed on beside me. The bus remained crowded all the…
Naples: capital city of pickpockets, part 3 of 4
byCity of Hugs and Thugs. Naples, Italy— We left Angelo and wandered around the corner, through the fish and produce market for a while….
Naples: capital city of pickpockets, part 2 of 4
byCity of Hugs and Thugs. Naples, Italy— Bob and I estimate that we saw 50 to 60 pickpockets in two hours on the trams…
Naples: capital city of pickpockets
byCity of Hugs and Thugs. Naples, Italy— Friday morning we had a friend take pictures of Bob and me getting onto crowded trams. A…
Wanna be a pickpocket ?
byBob gets fan mail, especially from teenage boys who want to do what he does. We used to get a slew of them every…
Stalking a moving target
byPreface, part-a, Travel Advisory If Bob’s and my first priority is putting pickpockets and con artists out of business, our second is to encourage…