- Mugged in Madrid I was face-down on the cobblestones of Calle Embajadores in Madrid, Spain, and my cheek and eyebrow hurt. I remembered the preceding seconds and became very angry. People stood or knelt around me, concerned expressions on their faces, rapid and obviously sympathetic Spanish voices directed to me and to each other. My wife's purse had been yanked from her shoulder on a ...web.nmsu.edu/~wcomer/mugged.htm