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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Techniques-Professional-Pickpocket-Wayne-Yeager/dp/1559500468/ref=sr_1_13/026-7990736-1982022?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174948273&sr=8-13
Techniques of the Professional Pickpocket
Does anyone know were i can get this book for a reasonable price?

Thanks

Techniques of the Professional Pickpocket:

Write and sell a book about pickpocketing at an insane price.
Mission acomplished. 100% legal

All that you need to get this book is another book called 'techniques of the professional shoplifter'

something i should know?

im not some wannabe thief it just looked intresting.

I don't think that anyone was suggesting that you were.

Looks like a joke to me, although it's got an ISBN. But seriously.... 71 pages, 287 pounds the cheapest, 326 the most expensive. And they are used...

By the way. The links are working again!

Take warning young Wombles: That link is the only reference to that ISBN in Google.

Lybrary has a book on pick-pocketing. Stage pick-pocketing isn't all that "transferable" to more nefarious forms of pick-pocketing. It tends to hinge on a lot of actions that, although they don't seem out of place on stage, you would never get away with in real life.

Actually I guy wrote a book "How to be a millionaire in just 6 months , my secrets revealed" or something along them lines, loads of people got a copy and it was one page "write a book like this one"....

It's not a joke - you get a few chancers selling their stuff on Amazon Marketplace in the hope that someone will pay that much!

He's written others too:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/searc ... .%20Yeager

It does seem an insane price.

I'll bet its like one of those get rich quick books, wherein all it tells you to do is to go out and sell books for £300. I'll bet there is nothing in there that you can't learn from Mark Raffles "The Legacy" faster and cheaper - well, Raffles is slow, but it sure is cheaper!

Hello Samstorey,

Sadly, the book you are talking about, Techniques of the Professional Pickpocket is indeed challenging to get. Unless, you happened to buy it when it was put out by Loompanics like I did. I was lucky.

The two large book publishers of, well, how shall we say this, unusual arts, were Loompanics and Paladin Press. Both, American publishers.


I have two pickpocketing books for my Stage Pickpocket Act (see guys, I'm not only about Illusions like some of you may think). One is the one we are talking about, Techniques of the Professional Pickpocket. The other is The Professional Stage Pickpocket. Both are, at least in my opinion, wonderful books with all kinds of ideas.

The thing about a book though, just like any form of learning, is that it is really up to the individual what you get out of it. If you read books like these simply at face value, you can learn a lot, sure, but if you add a bit of imagination, well then, goodness, all kinds of interesting things can happen.

Take for example my situation. I have a Magic Workshop that is out in a barn. Yes, right out of the movie The Illusionist. And in it I have the tools of my trade, including workout equipment such as ropes and such. Now, how does this relate to pickpocket arts? Well, by hanging hooks all over the walls and stringing rope up in a 3-dimensional spider web sort of effect, I can have a wonderful training area to practice all kinds of wonderful arts. Simply hanging bells and jingles all over the ropes makes it very challenging to move through the room and then using dummies made of vests with lots of pockets strung with bells and such as well as fake arms, pants, and purses, I have a huge training hall for Stage Pickpocket training.

Now since I like the physical aspects of training, I really enjoy practicing such skills but in order to develop a stage act, you need a lot more than just physical dexterity. You need an idea for the show. A reason, if you want to think of it that way. And that's where the book the Professional Stage Pickpocket comes in. It is a wonderful book filled with interesting information.

Pickpocketing is a fascinating art that I first got interested in from reading Dickens, of course. And, from that author I got the idea of making a pickpocket danger room to train in. And that is precisely what I have done.

There are good books and videos out there. And, it is a fascinating Stage art.

Good luck. Oh, and, keep it legal.

So, would I buy the book for several hundred dollars? Well, knowing me, if I felt I needed it for my act, yes, because I would see it as an investment. But is it worth that much? That fully depends on the buyer and what you intend to do with it.

Love,

Amanda Angeli

Should a book on pickpocketing be legal? I doubt it,
but every time I'm in a bookstore i have to stare at High Times and Cannibus Culture magazines and think how could they sell that?