Rio pickpocket: How Olympic tourists can protect their phones
It's witching hour in Rio De Janeiro for Pedro. The sun has slipped below the horizon, emptying the beaches and filling the nearby streets.
Most are holidaymakers around here lazily meandering back to their hotels -- prime targets for Pedro's light fingers and scant morals.
"More or less around 5 p.m. when there's more movement, it's easier to steal ... one, two ... sometimes three, even more," he says, when we catch up with him in his tiny home in one of the city's infamous "favela" slums.
Pedro is not his real name but his experiences are part of the reality holidaymakers will face here in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympics. Street crime is already rampant and is likely to get worse from August 5.
"It's going to be good," he laughs to himself. "At the same time that you'll have a lot of tourists, you'll have a lot of thieves as well," he adds.
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