The Guardia Civil arrested three generations of shoplifters from the same family after they attacked female shop assistants in an Armilla establishment.

So, let’s explain that a little. A 19-year-old man, his 48-year-old mother and his 66-year-old grandmother were all involved in a shoplifting incident where they were caught in the act and confronted about it.

Instead of a, “It’s a fair cop, Gov” attitude, they allegedly went for the shop staff.

The theft (or robbery, as there was violence involved) occurred last August. The staff had been watching the Light-Fingered Three and intercepted them as they were about to leave. The shoplifters’ reaction was to hit and scratch the female staff members before running off with 115 euros of booty, bless their cotton socks.

Had this occurred in Texas, they would have been gunned down on the spot because even mothers pushing prams have 0.50 Cals incorporated into buggy’s bodywork, and humble, female shop assistants, just out of school, have RPG’s leant up against the cash register.

Alas it happened in Spain, so the scratched and bleeding victims were taken to a medical centre to be treated for their injuries and so that a medical report could be written up and offered as evidence at a consequently trial, somewhere towards the end of this century.

The Guardia officers went round to the establishment, looked at the CCTV footage and identified the culprits, who had all popped over for the day from the neighbouring town of Peligros, whose very name is a dead give-away.

They were arrested, booked, brought before a police court and released pending trial or the Second Coming, whichever arrives first.

(News: City & Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)