True Claim Stories

Just some of the weird and wonderful things that happen to World Nomads travellers while on the road

Gang theft

FRANCE | Monday, 21 August 2006 | Views [690] | Comments [2]

I was out with a friend and on my way we stopped at a cafe to get some food. My friend left to go to the bathroom and a man came up to me when I was sitting down and started touching my face and saying words to the effect of "beautiful girl, let me see your eyes, bella, bella". I turned my face to get his hands away from me and told him to go away. He grabbed my bag which was sitting beside me and ran away before I even had a chance to react.

My friend then came back and we tried to find where the man had gone but we couldn't. Then two different men came up to us and said they had seen that my bag had been stolen and that they would call the police for us. Then one of them took my brand new Dolce & Gabbana frames off my face and I grabbed them back off him and told him not to touch my glasses or me and he said "sorry sorry miss, I just wanted to see your eyes". I took my glasses and put them in my jeans pocket. The two men then called the police while we stood there and said that they were on their way.

They then walked away and I went to put my glasses on again but realised that they had just pick-pocketed me and the glasses were gone. They had all been working together and they did not really call the police even though they made the pretend call in front of my friend and me.

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