ok so i work in the music industry and i was in madrid working at summercase festival, all was well the band and tour manager had gone to the hotel to fly home the next day...me and the rest of the crew were left to go home on a 26hr journey in a hot tour bus,
we get an hour or so out of madrid and the bus decides to fill with smoke, ended up being some faulty wireing ..i fixed this in an hour or so...no problem off we went... got 10 mins up the road and the rest of the wiring i hadnt fixed went up....oh dear so we put the fire out and tried to make sense of the wiring to get us going again, whilst we were doing this a car pulled up in front of us, the passenger got out and came up to the bus door to talk to the driver, was a chap in a uniform, he showed the driver his badge and asked him to go to his car, it wasnt a police car but they were in the uniform of the spanish police, he asked for ID and his passport the driver was helpfull and gave it to him, the so called police then started to tell the driver he wanted paying or he would be arested and taken to jail, it was mentioned that it would be easy to plant drugs and wepons, the driver did question this but the guy got very upset and thretend him with being shot, so now I WAS SHITTIN it proper...anyhow to cut a story short coz its allready long enuf, they got away with just over 2000 euros and left us to our smoldering bus, when we spoke to the real police about it they were very upset and said it was a big big problem in spain at the moment, it was happening alot...the driver of the bus was taken off for statements and to look at fotos, needless to say i left the bus with the crew we got a taxi back to madrid and got the next available flight home....what a bloody nite i didnt sleep a wink...very scary...so if you have english plates on your motor and are drivin at nite in spain be very aware....

cheers for reading my rant.....oh and my poorly s1 is in fast ford this month..at the brunters mk3 thrash ....