We wuz robbed

Our last morning in Santiago was to be spent looking at museums and art galleries using the metro to get around. We used the metro to get to our first stop and had a good look around the Pre- Columbian Art Museum then decided to walk to the next gallery. We were only a walking for a few minutes when a man stopped me and pointed out that there was some yellow sticky and smelly substance on my polar fleece vest. We stopped to clean it and two passers-bye offered to help with tissues at the ready. It was so bad that I had to take off my vest to clean it. One of the "helpers" said it must have been a bird so we both looked up and before we knew it they had all dissapeared and so was my wallet (It had been in the top zippered pocket of the vest, a safe place from pickpockets) I quickly realised that the wallet was gone and gave chase but soon lost anyone in the dense traffic both vehicular and pedestrian. We found a caberinos (policeman) who took us to his HQ so we could formally report the theft. We lost about US$150, two credit cards and our drivers licences, so with no money we had to call the hotel to pick us up. We did manage to pay the hotel from a photocopy of the card before we cancelled both cards. What a scam and what an exciting end to our holiday. See you in Australia in a couple of days.