[gaius]

Within 5 minutes of arriving in Barcelona, a friend of mine was pickpocketed. Slick operation, 2 pretty girls as distraction and a boy to do the deed. We grabbed him and he gave it back and then the three of them just wandered off as if it was nothing. Which I suppose for them it was. This was in the main train station so there were cameras, cops around, clearly no deterrent.

[kzrdude]

My experience with Barcelona too, I witnessed a botched pickpocketing attempt just to the person next to me, when arriving to Plaza Catalunya. Way to give a bad first impression, after that the rest of the week was fine.