>I am sure she learned the lesson of being more accurate with valuables in Europe. Where I grew up pick pocketing was a very common thing. And still is in most European countries.

It is an art practiced by those having less, but more a function of time and place than country. Prague as tourist attraction gets higher # like Rome, Vienna and Budapest - we get the same artisans in xMas market times and villages have much smaller problems if any at all with this kind of thing.