street performers and illegal actions

Street performers: The street performers reminded me of NYC, spiderman, mickey and minnie, spongebob, a gold fireman, guys that stand still then jump up and scare you... we have pictures to post later. the street performers, many of them can throw their voices without opening their mouths and so you look around to see where all of these strange noises are coming from...

Illegal actions: on our last day in Madrid we were walking through one of the plazas when all of a sudden we see a group of about 10 men with sacks over their shoulders (like when you take a blanket full of laundry) and they were running past us looking over their shoulders talking in Spanish. I looked at Kim and said it looks like they just did something wrong...a couple of minutes later Belen explained to us that it is illegal to set up a blanket of things to sell in the street (they had DVD's, Calvin Klein underwear, hats, purses, pictures, earmuffs, you name it they had it) so when one of their buddies got busted by a cop they gathered up their stuff and took off running... until they found another street full of people with no cops on it...