My parents visited me for a few days this week end. They were coming from France and drove here as they normally do. At the motorway that goes around Barcelona (Contournation de Barcelona), dad heard a loud 'bang'. He then saw a car (a black BMW in that case with 2 men onboard) flashing my parent's car and signing the tire as if it had blown. Dad first instinct was to slow down. He was about to stop on the side of the motorway to assess the damage, and to thank the people who warned him......Mum for some reason (call it instinct) told my dad not to stop and to carry on. The black BMW insisted and signed again. My parents did not stop. The black BMW seeing that my parents would not stop quickly disappeared off the motorway. When my parents finally stopped, no tire had blown out and an air riffle impact was on the side of the car. After phoning the French embassy to report this, we were informed that this was not the first time this has been happening, and caution must be taken as some people had been less lucky than my parents..... The men onboard the black BMW shot with an air riffle my parents car. They were aiming for the tire, but missed. They then tried to get them to stop. Then would have taken all their possession, possibly the car, and beaten them up. So please please be careful.
Anne S
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Welcome to Spain.
This happened to a friend with out-of-country license plates who had been followed out of Valencia. They motioned him to stop, pointing at his tire. He stopped and the tire was flat. One character had friend's wife come up the road a bit to point out directions to a repair shop and while the other inspected the tire with my friend. Everybody said their thank-yous and the "good samaritans" sped off.
Meanwhile a third member of the team had cleaned wallets, purse, passports and anything else of value out of the front seat of the car.
Be careful out there folks.
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