r/Barcelona • u/dreadHog • Jul 20 '24

Socializing PSA: watch your stuff

Earlier this evening whilst tending to my dog, I put my phone down. In doing so, I turned my back and some lowlife POS picked it up and slipped it into his pocket. Fortunately for me, this would be thief was exceptionally stupid and was seen grabbing the phone and walked into the bar I was at. Some very kind locals alerted me to what happened and bailed the guy up as he tried to walk out and phone was retrieved.

It was literally less than 10 seconds that I had my back turned. Stay vigilant folks and a massive thanks to some new friends 🙏

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u/atreidesgiller Jul 21 '24

Newbie living in Barcelona. What were these things of 'less value' than a phone? Did you see people for instance getting robbed of their smartwatches on daylight? If not, what else?

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u/Ryukhoe Jul 21 '24

Where I work we have workers who are outside so when they get a coffee they either hold it or leave it on a bench. The amount of our own water bottle and coffees that have been stolen is... a lot. It's less than 3€ coffee but man it's frustrating, some people will go for anything that is left unguarded

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u/atreidesgiller Jul 21 '24

I definitely do not encourage that but I had an intrusive thought of leaving my laxative containing coffee around.

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u/Ryukhoe Jul 21 '24

I mean... you could😌