RussBoy

Ok, this is god's honest truth! I live in a VERY nice part of the Costa Del Sol...very little riff raff, lot's of Spanish, no all day English bars etc etc. Very safe to walk around at any time of day or night.

Last night, like many others, I couldn't sleep very well. Don't know why, just one of those things. Our apartment is right on the road which runs along the seafront about 40 minutes from Malaga.

At 7am, when it was still dark and very quiet (being a Sunday) I heard a guy shouting in Spanish on the main road a few metres away. We sounded very scared and they'd been a targetted burglary recently on an expats villa whereby the owner got stabbed by 6 scumbags looking for cash. Anyway, the shouting gave way to the dog who guards the grounds of the big house on the corner growling and barking very loudly. He's a great dog and everybody who lives here knows him and vice versa. He only growls at strangers. Then the dog started making sounds like it was attacking someone The shouting and screaming became worse...

Then, the dog went quiet and there was a squealing of tyres and a car rushed up the side street from the coast road. By this point I knew something was up. I could hear very clearly as our balcony window was wide open as it's warm, and we are only 35 feet from the street. There was then a sound of further squealing tyres and a Guardia Civil car rounded the corner (I knew it was as they are trained to brake right into a corner). The other guy by now had legged it on foot, and was standing, or running behind my car which was parked down a backstreet but which we could see from our apartment windows which were side on. Then there was a gunshot! ****! I thought...I jumped out of bed and told my wife that a guy had been shot and she also jumped out...right in front of the open patio doors just as another shot was discharged! We both ducked as it was unclear who was shooting at who and we were right in the line of sight from the fugitive.

The guy legging it disappeared into the rough terrain and despite 2 hours of police on scrambling bikes and around 20 armed officers scouring on foot, he was never seen again. The Police here don't seem to use dogs, if they did they'd have had him within minutes.

After 33 years living in or around South London and only seeing the odd stabbing, I'm on the Costas and seeing a feckin shoot out! I'm not sure who shot at who but I think it was one a piece....All is forgiven Brixton!!


R

P.S Car had been avoided by bullets when checked later this morning!

apples24

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shoulda video'd it and banged it on youtube lol

Snazy

lol love it

Sounds like fun!! Not.. Glad all is well now

ScoobyWon't

Sounds like Costa del Nottingham

DYK

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DOG.

RussBoy

I must be a bit of a idiot. I've had this 'teflon' approach walking around over here for the last 3 years despite reading that there are 700 organised Mafia gangs on the Costa Del Sol alone (which is relatively small place). Truth is, I'd never seen any form or trouble and have never felt threatened. What made this all the more odd, is unlike England, 2 hours later the garden centre (where most of the scrub and waste land was where the guy legged it into) opened as normal and anyone who had slept through it all would never have known what had taken place.

dunx

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DYK !

LOL

DunxC

P.S. How is the dog ?

RussBoy

Lol, he was fine. In fact, the house the geezer may have targetted is owned by a rather dodgy bunch of young, but rich (best not to ask any questions), Spanairds...I'd have taken my chance against the dog rather than 4 or 5 of them...

DYK

LOL,i like the way you say,i live in a very nice part of Costa Del Sol.Then further down the thread,you write there are 700 organised mafia gangs there..Id still like to live there though..Dont suppose your looking for a handyman to water your plants,and cut the grass by any chance..

Boro

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Where about in Costa was this. Anywhere near Frigiliana?

PaulC72

just proves it can happen anywhere. Glad all is ok.

RussBoy

Very close. Torrox Costa Penoncillo.

RussBoy

Cheers Paul, and all others. I would talk a little more about it but I think I have that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder thing...

nik52wrx

My parents have a nice appartment in Elviria, 30 mins from Malaga and i know that 4 pads have been burgled there in the last month. The police did catch the theiving piece of scum though.
Nik

ScoobyDoo555

We visit my Aunty in Torremolinos - whilst she says that there crime etc is rising, it's not actually the mafia causing most of the grief. it's other illegal aliens.

Still, I would live there in a shot (no pun intended!! ), and will do some day

DAn

Shark Man

I walked thourgh Nechells.......once. I'm still here, and not like a collinder

You can't escape it. well not unless you live on your own private island.

Guy we used to do work for had his own private residence in the middle of nowhere - didn't stop the robbers with the sawn-off though. After that epsiode he doesn't spend much time in the UK.....funnily enough, he's in Spain now .

Leslie

Just like WW2 after the bombing then. "Business as usual"

Les

Janspeed

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Scared of the Latin Thugs are we? lol!!

Dream Weaver

Is that where they have the markets, on the main road from Nerja down to Malaga etc?

I cant imagine any gangs in Frigiliana, way too quiet!!

RussBoy

Yeah, though the Torrox market is half of mile in other direction towards Torre rather than where we are (Penoncillo) which is right on the beach towards Nerja.

Lol re Frigiliana! Cattle rustling maybe though...


R

RussBoy

The Spanish I can handle, it's the Russians, Italians and Bulgarians who are a bit feisty!

Janspeed

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Russians, Bulgarians and Romanians, the only way to deal with them is.......but the law does not allow it.