Car broken into in Sitges

6 years ago, my wife and I were driving from Barcelona to Valencia in a car rental. We made a pit stop in Sitges (per recommendation) for a little over an hour to take in some views and grab a quick lunch. We parked on the main road (on a street called Passeig Maritim), middle of the day, left all bags in the trunk (hatchback) and grabbed our phones, wallets and passports with us (left our camera in the glove compartment).

Once we parked, we bought a parking ticket and probably looked like tourists because it took us forever to figure out how to actually purchase the ticket on the machines. Went back to the car to put the ticket on the dashboard, locked it, triple checked that it was locked, walked down the road along the beach and grabbed lunch.

Upon getting back to our car (again, about 1 hour later, middle of the day) noticed the small window (by the side mirror) on the passenger side smashed in. Opened the car and surprisingly the camera was still in the glove compartment but the back seats were down and the trunk was emptied out completely. Completely. Emptied. Out. All of our bags, 3 days into our 10 day trip:

1 large suitcase 2 carry on’s 1 backpack 1 purse. All of it. Fucking gone. Stupid pathetic Motherfuckers.

We ran into the restaurant across the street (Kansas Mediterranean Bar), they were kind enough to phone the police and translate for us, and the owner stayed with us through the ordeal (she was very nice and helpful). They said there are no cameras outside their establishment or any homes because that simply isn’t a practice in Spain (by law apparently?).

We ended up driving to a police station about 15 min away and stayed there all afternoon filing a report. You know what we did after? Continued with our vacation regardless of what dirty worthless piece of low life shit garbage humans are out there.

We loved Spain, we went to 4 more cities after and we had obviously replaced our rental with a new one. We knew that most of the things taken were absolutely replaceable (clothes, work phone and laptop, luggage, outfits, etc) but obviously, our traveling innocence, sense of security, and overall trust of everyone around us was altered.

Sharing this to let you know of the horrible situations you can find yourself in when you least expect it because of people who are simply the lowest form of human and to keep your guard up at all times. We don’t know if we were followed, if someone spotted us in the street parking and buying a ticket, if it was the car rental sticker on the back of the car, or if it was just some douchebags luck. Either way, fuck these sort of people and sincerely wish them that their worst fears in life come true.

If you have any suggestions on what websites to potentially keep an eye out for “re-sold items”, any similar situations you are familiar with, any questions, feel free to chime in.

(This was taken from a reddit post I saw a while ago, thought I’d share).