naa, he got fully suckered in by a street game of "pick which matchbox the ball is under"
lost 50 Euros. Me and the other guy with him couldn't quite believe what was happening, so we just let it.

As we walked off this scruffy dude flashed us a random badge and a massive pistol and said he was the police, did the guy lose some money and if so follow him.

We marched to the police station (although we could've been going anywhere, the badge didn't look like any I'd seen before and the guy looked like a spanish version of the Sweeney) and a form was filled in. None of us could remember what the guy looked like, so the cop told us. Meanwhile we could hear him being given a bit of a slapping in the next room.

Guy got his 50 Euros back, and I got a mildly amusing anecdote. Everyone's a winner.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:26, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

that's pretty cool
certainly a bit naive though
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:28, Reply)

the whole thing was quite surprising
it'd been a massively late night and travelling the night before, so everything felt a bit unreal.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:31, Reply)