La Policia

Dude. You know you are too old when the police bust all the punk kids around you...but not you. Good thing? I'm not so sure...

Situation? Barcelona, two weekends ago. Andrea and I are sitting on the steps of a big plaza having a beer and just people watching. Ton of people hanging around, chilling out, etc. Phil/katie, think back to Roma a few years ago. Same kind of vibe. All of a sudden one of these fuckers rolls up, screeches to a halt, like, 2 feet in front of us, and two jackbooted spanish cops rush out of the van and, literally, start fucking everyone's shit up. That is the only way to put it, man. It happened so fast that it was like watching a movie. This big freaky cop, yelling who knows what, RUNS up to these people sitting three feet to our left and proceeds to KICK all their beers over, then STOMP on their beers, and then kick the people. It was so fast, and so violent that we were both just kind of stunned! This group left, obviously. His partner did the same up and down the steps. These cops cleared out a whole plaza of people (there must have been at least 50-60) in about 40 seconds. Except us!! They never even LOOKED at us! I was like, 'we have some amazing magical power whereby we are invisible to angry spanish cops!' That was proven incorrect when I was like, 'buenos noches, senior cerdo and he bit my ear off...Kidding, i'm kidding. Anyway, we watched the carnage, finished our drinks and meandered on, feeling a bit confused. I'm glad we weren't attacked by deranged spanish cops...but another part of us...well...you know. We felt left out :)

Andrea later found out the reason for this insanity. Barcelona is trying to outlaw drinking outside. Brilliant. Take a really vibrant, fun, awesome city and start putting insanely stupid rules everywhere...See example A (New York).