Originally Posted by
SemiElite
I've been a tourist in 40 of our 50 states over my lifetime, and I have never, not once, ever had anyone attempt to pick my pocket! Yet I've had an attempted pickpocketing in Rome, had two attempts to to steal my watch off my wrist (an old, ordinary looking Seiko with a plastic band) in Lima, Peru, and my wife's wallet was stolen in Amsterdam.
Feel free to draw your own conclusions!
Okay, I will: Because you're an American, you don't look or act like a tourist in the U.S., but you do when you're overseas.
I have no idea what point you're making by relating this experience, but if it is that the U.S. is immune to tourist crime, whereas Rome, Amsterdam, Lima and other foreign destinations are hot-beds of tourist-seeking criminality, then you're not particularly sufficiently familiar with either your own country or others, or you are a particularly inept foreign travelers.