To Catch a Thief

While in Barcelona, waiting to board the Splendour of the Seas to Miami Nov. 1 to 16, I had two scams attempted.

While standing on a bridge admiring the view, I was “sprayed” by a young man. When I turned around, he pointed up in the air. He said “birds.” After a few steps, he stopped and came back to offer me some clean-up wipes. I took off my jacket. The young man pointed to my wet pants and offered to wipe off the worst. I reached around and got his wrist jas he removed my wallet.

The next day I wore my fanny pack, with wallet, etc., in front of me. While we were visiting a cathedral, an older lady tried to get us to accept roses. As we said “no,” she kept trying to put the stem of one into our pocket, button hole, etc. About then I noticed she had poked the stem of one rose into the zipper of my pack and had it better than half open with her hand just going inside! Had either of these lowlifes been successful, it would have spoiled the trip.

JERRY ANGELL

Redlands