The act of thieving and robbing from others was already a thriving business in 1907. That year 90 pickpockets were captured during the Sanfermines, which gives us some idea of how well that business was thriving in that age. The imagination of the thieves, rogues and swindlers did not end there. During those same fiestas the authorities had to issue a warning that some trickster had put false two-peseta coins into circulation in the town. And on another day that same year, a police raid at the Fair Market produced the confiscation of nine pistols, three revolvers, twenty-nine knives, three lances, a pruning shears, twelve flick knives, a picklock and two shaving knives. It would seem that the Fair Market was a place where one would go well prepared for the worst to happen. In any case, no explanation is given as to the utility of the pruning shears in this place