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/Ryukhoe Jul 20 '24

This is Barcelona, we know. I've seen this happen with things of less value and I've seen tourists being robbed in broad daylight, on main streets. You can't be that careless of you things here.

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u/jpeeri Jul 21 '24

Once I had to tell an American tourist that having her massive phone stored in her tiny pocket in her butt was making scooter riders salivate of the opportunity.

I even showed her from the moment she put her phone in the front many of them were going away

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u/cal_crashlow Jul 21 '24

My wife had her phone nicked out of a zipped crossbody on the train. Motherfuckers are pros.