Shit happens

The first sunny day after a week grey clouds. We decide to do nothing but read a book in the park next to the catedral nueva. Ingrid is already half way in Marquez 100 years of solitude. After ten minutes Ingrid forgets about the surrounding reality and gets lost in the magic reality of the Buendia family.
What happens in the next 20 seconds might as well be scripted and then filmed afterwards for tourist warning purposes.

Here`s the setting:
The park in front of the cathedral is about 100 x 100 m big. Lots of trees, small paths, and lots of people walking around. Sunny, lazy atmosphere. Ingrid and Hans are sitting on a bench. She is sitting at his right side and is reading a book. The daypack is around her left shoulder.

Here`s the timeline:
1. A guy walks by (from right to left) and drops his keys. Hans says: ´Señor, tus llaves!´The man grabs a mobile phone out of his jacket and starts making a phonecall. Ingrid says, loud now: ´Señor, tus llaves´. No reaction. (00.00 to 00.06 seconds)
2. Hans gets up, walks the 3 meter to the keys on the ground, picks them up and runs the 2 metres to the guy, ticks him on the shoulder. The man makes a strange gesture, as if to say ´i don´t care, leave me alone, don´t you see i´m making a phonecall´ After 3 seconds, he accepts the keys and follows his path. After that, Hans returns to the bench. The distance to the bench was never more than 10 meters. (00.06 to 00.16 seconds)
3. In the mean time, starting 1 second after Hans has left the bench, a second guy approaches Ingrid at her right side. He hands over a flyer to her and starts a short conversation in Spanish. But he speaks to fast, Ingrid does not understand and watches the flyer, something about Spanish lessons. (00.07 to 00.15 seconds)
4. The second guy leaves in the opposite direction as the first guy (00.16 to 00.20 seconds)
5. In the mean time, starting 1 second after Ingrid is being distracted by the second guy, a third guy enters the scene, approaches Ingrid from the left and pulls the daypack with force from her left shoulder. (00.08 to 00.11 seconds)
6. The third guy runs away (00.12 to 00.20 seconds)
7. Hans has been practising some self defence, but since there is no opponent within reach, this is of no use to him. He asks himself: what have I done to deserve this. And: what a stupid fool I am. (00.20 to 00.22 seconds)
8. Ingrid asks around, but the surrounding people haven´t seen anything. It all went too fast. (00.20 to 00.22 seconds)

Spread the word, tell the world that there´s another trick: the drop-the-key trick! (I´ll post it on the Thorntree Lonely Planet readers forum)
Lesson learned: never help anyone anymore.

So no photos this week. Just use your imagination and think of scary wooden snakes and enchanting Cañari rituals. And corrupt police officers slurping fat chicken soup.