"I tell you, it's a military operation," Bruce Jefferson told reporters in Prague, "and if The Obese Family choose you, there is nothing you can do. They're so fat, the victim can't even see what's going on, so he has no chance. I mean, I'm a big guy, but this group is afraid of no one."
Jefferson was speaking about a seven-member gang known as "The Obese Family" whose pick-pocketing activities on tram lines 9, 22 and 23 have become notorious within the city. "First, an innocent looking pregnant woman gets on the tain and demands a tourist's seat," explained another witness, Adam Ellick, "and when he stands up, five hugely obese men quickly move in and surround him with their stomachs. Within seconds, the gang is rifling his pockets, and his valuables are dumped into a carrier bag, which is handed to a slimmer youth. He flees from the tram, often screaming "The Obese Family has struck again" in Czech, while the tourist is detained by a wall of blubber until the next stop. The five fat men are so loud and obese that the tourist usually doesn't even realise what's going on until it's too late. He just thinks the tram is particularly crowded. And when The Obese Family are on board, it is."
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