"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."
Unfortunately, I have heard of this before and it really is an awful situation. When I first moved to Valencia, this happened to a person I had only just met and it looked as though her tyres had been delibrately slashed. As one person showed her where the garage was, the other grabbed her bag. I put the story in the cronica but this is a timely reminder.
The only thing I can think of is if you do stop and someone tries to help you; stay in the car, hide your bag, lock the doors, call comeone on your mobile and stay in the car until the person goes.
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