At first I was angry at how blatant these attempts were. Then as I saw child after child, many of them half naked, I began to feel sorry for these children.
To live in a world where you are forced, out of desperation, to steal, and to be branded as criminals by people like us, us who sit and type so easily from our computers in our homes, surrounded by warmth and light and food and clean water, well...that's pretty sad.
Perhaps people should stop being so upset at the petty crime and look beyond that, at the real crime here; the poverty that leads to these situations.