And somewhere three assholes are buying a new Xbox game

Mom and Dad were wrapping up a month-long trip through Europe this weekend. They'd managed to avoid all the usual pitfalls of travel: delayed flights, missed flights, lost luggage, civil warfare, etc.

But alas not pickpockets.

"We had been warned when we got here," Mom writes, "but the gang of three on the subway was slick in getting it out of Hugh's deep pocket right as the door closed on the subway and they jumped out."

The Eurassholes got $60 U.S. and Dad's driver's license. They cancelled the cards, but not before the guys tried to get cash off the debit card. Dad managed to keep his humor about the whole thing:

"For the record, I've now been pickpocketed in Quelemane, mugged in Beira and Mozambique, wallet lifted in Pristina, and now Madrid. Sara lost her wallet to thieves in Budapest. You'd think I'd learn better, but now I have a reputation to maintain."

And apparently a good vegetarian dinner after a robbery goes a long way to making things better.