A man was cycling through the Granada vega when he felt the need to stop and relieve his bladder – he couldn’t have stopped at a worse place.

Just when the 30-year-old man had finished and was ‘buckling up,’ a swarthy gentleman with a questionable grasp on property ownership jumped out of the bamboo canes and hit him on the head with a large stone, leaving him dazed.

So far; not good.

But it got worse because his attacker, who was no weakling, dragged him off towards an abandoned cortijo where he could transfer the man’s portable wealth at leisure.

At one point the thief stopped for breath and to have a look around to see if there were any witnesses, which was a mistake on his behalf because his victim, despite the cranial-large-stone encounters, had recuperated enough wits to jump up and run off, leaving his bicycle and dismayed assailant behind.

Fortunately, the victim ran into two walkers and one of whom had a mobile, so the police were summoned and within the hour the thief was caught. Not surprisingly, the gentleman was no stranger to the inside of a police station and jumping out of bamboo canes at passersby was just a new facet to his handsomely populated curriculum vitae.

(News: Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)