Apparently a really fat gay wigger. Imagine being a literal midget, and without even having the intention of saying it, you pick the optimal purchase if your purpose was "I want to buy and display an object that advertises that I have money and am such a pathetic pussy that if you just pimp slap me my orbital sockets will explode, even if you are a 12 year old tranny."
This is the generic scenario of the stupid tourist moron, usually American or British. Chinks will do in a pinch here, too. The gang (they do this in volume so confrontations slow things down) finds a weak woman, like Ethan Ralph, and grabs something off him. If they just get away, which they usually do, they have whatever they snatched, a camera, or a gay man's woman purse, which is probably full of lube and gross stuff but might be worth something.
But they are generally efficient about nearly immediately converting that stolen shit into actual money. Since there's always some retard who tries to chase down the snatcher, the snatcher is usually running off to somewhere full of his asshole gyppo buddies. Anyone who chases that guy is about to get stomped by a gang.
I can easily see Ethan Ralph being so high on Burger King and cheap tourist sangria that after they stole his fag purse, he thought he was a good runner because somehow, despite him wheezing with every step, and pitiably flailing his tiny T. Rex arms, he somehow caught up with some long legged migrant who was making sure he caught up, just at the right time.
Anyway that's my second favorite made-up fantasy of what happened to the pig in Portugal. My favorite is obviously where he hit on a tranny who took offense and the tranny rearranged his face permanently with damage to his skull that will be visible to archaeologists. "This is obviously a male. From the shattered orbital, we can determine that this male with dwarfism almost certainly pissed off a Portugese tranny."