unsuccessful pickpocket.

I was at an open air market today for a class project, and while in a bakery, I felt something touch my pocket. At first I thought it was Ashley because she had dug in my pocket earlier for change when my hands were full, but then I realized it was my camera sliding out. I turned around and saw a small man running off with my camera. I yelled, "He stole my camera!" and without hesitation took off running after him. As I started to run, I yelled, "Tommy!" and he took off with me. We chased the guy around a corner and up a street where he took every turn possible to get away. Tommy was far ahead of me, and I was yelling "¡Para!" after the man. What amazed me most was every person on the street stopped and asked what was going on. Even a soccer team stopped practicing and came out into the street. When I stopped running, one of them asked, "Gringa, ¿qué pasó?" I said, "Él me robó la cámara." I looked around and cars had stopped in the street. Men were getting out of their trucks. We had caused quite the scene and were drawing a lot of attention. I saw Tommy chasing the small man through the street ahead of me, and with the help of the men around, he was able to stop him. I walked up to the scene and a woman stopped me. She had my camera - the small man had pitched it when Tommy got too close. The men in the street had the small man on the ground and were beating him up! They kicked him in the head, even knocking his head up against a cement wall! He pleaded with the men, saying that he hadn't done anything. I told them that a woman had retrieved my camera and that I had it. Tommy insisted that I make the man apologize, but I didn't want to. I made him leave with me. I thanked everyone in the street as we walked back. It was amazing. There must have been fifty people that stopped what they were doing to help or ask what was going on. I don't know what happened to the small man because Tommy and I left him in the hands of the men on that street. But I got my camera back, and it was quite the experience. Apparently the people aren't too fond of thieves.

Tommy and me after the chase.