A “Robbed in Barcelona” contributor has sent us a photo he took on January 23rd, 2012 of three individuals he believes were stealing a number of bicycles. We’ve put a thin black strip across the eyes of the three, but if your bicycle was stolen that morning on the corner of Carrer del Comte d’Urgell and...
You own a car. You park it near you home. You know it’s vulnerable. It’s been broken into before. You leave nothing on the back seats, you remove the stereo, there’s no money visible, but still it gets broken into, the window smashed. What do you do? Do you try some simple psychology, maybe?...
So, how much informing, revealing and embarrassing did we do in 2011? (Our aims are listed here.) Robbed in Barcelona has been on Facebook since March 10th 2010, but only since April 7th 2011 have we published on this site. Since then – less than nine months – we’ve had 34,638 unique visitors to this...
Barcelona apartments are frequently supplied with A4 information sheets to pin to communal noticeboards. The sheets are usually supplied by locksmiths or removals companies to ensure their phone number is on-hand should someone in the building need it. In addition to their own phone numbers, the sheets list useful numbers such as those of...
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...
You couldn’t write this stuff, really. Sitting in front of Mercat de Santa Caterina in Barcelona, a TV interviewer (on the left of shot) interviews a street musician. Mid-interview (about 30 seconds in), the musician lifts his head… he’s seen something…
(Article updated below to include new commentary from Lorenzo.) Italian artist Lorenzo Barbieri had his sketchbook, along with his laptop, stolen when he was in Barcelona. All that remains of his skill and dedication is this short video shot during an impromptu meeting with another visitor to the city in Parc Guell. Len, the...
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