“I couldn’t wait to leave Barcelona and get home. Shame on you, Barcelona, for allowing your beautiful city to get SO bad that the reputation that precedes you is the prevalence of pickpockets.” So ends the account by ‘Datacenter Dude’ of his visit to Barcelona for a conference aroundabout October 16th, 2012. While in...
This is the second post in our mini-series of sites set-up to counter pickpocketing in our cities. Yesterday we covered “Robbery Maps“. Today, let’s look at “PickPocketMap“. The website compares other pickpocket hotspots, such as London, Paris, Madrid, Rome and Prague and compares and contrasts them by showing the increase or decrease in reported incidents in...
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...
Guest post by Bambi Vincent, thiefhunter Thieves who operate on the principles of stealth, motion, or impedence strive to minimize contact with their victim. Zero face-time is their preference. Minimal body contact, zero notice, zero recognition. Other pickpockets, though, cause contact and use it to their advantage. Bob Arno and I (we call ourselves...
As first reported by “Corporate Travel Safety” over here, there’s a new technique in play* on Las Ramblas and the surrounding streets. We’re going to give it a nifty title: “The Free Hugger.” (Thanks to Donal for telling us about it.) (* Yeah, yeah, we know you’ll all come on here now and say you’ve...
Guestpost by Justin (real name withheld) I’ve been in Barcelona two years and have been robbed/mugged four times on the street, twice successfully. On one occasion, though we live in a nice part of town, we were burgled and this while we were in our apartment. The robbers left when they were discovered, without...
By Joan Lladregotti We planned to have a chilled out picnic with friends and family one summer Sunday in Parc Ciutadella. I went a few hours early to find a shady spot and decorate the area a little. I hung up two Mexican hammocks on the boughs of the tree, having chosen one large...
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