Guest post by Robbed in Barcelona contributor, Matt I have been in Barcelona for the past week and my first experience of the thieves was when I was with a girl on the beach outside Opium. Her bag was stolen containing her camera and all her holiday photos and after two hours of searching...
Our Facebook group has been busy over the past 48 hours with updates from our fans/friends about a recent BBC report they had seen. The article and video in question, which can be seen here, is entitled “Olympics: Pickpockets show off ‘one-second theft’” The accompanying video, shows the Ronaldinho technique in action, something we’ve...
Guestpost by Suzanne M. This is my story of how I was mugged and mistreated in Barcelona. I was with two female friends walking back to my hotel after dinner on our second day in town. I wanted to take a taxi but my friend said she was sure the neighborhood was safe. Big mistake....
Guestpost by Eli. I am saddened to read about all the bad experiences on this site, but heartened to see that people are not browbeaten by these scumbags. I, too, was robbed of my bag recently. Having first approached a policeman on a moped who just shrugged and drove off, I was advised by...
There must be an immense sense of anticipation having robbed a bag. Think back to when you were a child, approaching the Christmas tree, nice large box wrapped in fancy paper. It might contain what you’ve been dreaming of, or maybe something better… and then there’s the second and third box… what’s in those?...
Robberies are down on the metro system, but they’re still significant highly. Between July 22nd and September 30th 2010 there were 6,346 offences in the underground. Between July 22nd and September 30th 2011 there were 4,473 offences in the underground. The 4,473 incidents spanned 71 days, which is an average of 63 offences per...
We tell many Barcelona robbery stories on this site, but there’s one in particular that we are constantly asked about… it’s the case of the Polish contortionist on the bus between Girona Airport and Barcelona city centre. We first wrote about it back in June 2011. (You might want to read about it first,...
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