Reminds me of the North Hollywood shootout from 90's. Two guys decked out in armor and got armor piercing rounds got in a crazy shootout with cops. Here's a documentary if anyone feels like blowing 20 mintues.
Yeah the 3 armed bank robberies does sound like a lot. They were saying that back then they didn't carry assault rifles or anything. Nowadays I'm pretty sure they got one in every car.
Watching cops go from pistol, to pistol and six mags, to assault rifle in the car, to assault rifle in every single interaction was bizarre. I remember taunting National Guard dorks in the airport after 9/11 bc they were issued rifles but no ammo, and now twenty years later every hog in the country has an assault rifle and goes on SWAT LARPs twice a year.
"It's friday, TGIF for employees at a bank in North Hollywood. But when the horror begins, the end of their work-week will become frozen in time. Two men, DEMONS as the police call them, approach a bank"
Yeah the documentary covers that. They took barbituates to make themselves calm so they wouldn't panic and make bad decisions. They synchronized their watches to 8 minutes because they calculated that's how long it'd take cops to get there. But they miscalculated and it only took 2-3 minutes for cops to surround the building.
Thousands of rounds fired, but the only people who died were the two bank robbers. But that didn't stop the piggies from using it to justify massive militarization for decades afterward.
Reminds me of the North Hollywood shootout from 90's. Two guys decked out in armor and got armor piercing rounds got in a crazy shootout with cops. Here's a documentary if anyone feels like blowing 20 mintues.
why is this documentary so funny tho?
it's almost like a parody of American television programming.
also, how many billions of dollars do you reckon the police milked out of this shit?
edit: "there were an average of 3 armed bank robberies a day in Los Angeles". there's no way that's true, right??
Yeah the 3 armed bank robberies does sound like a lot. They were saying that back then they didn't carry assault rifles or anything. Nowadays I'm pretty sure they got one in every car.
Watching cops go from pistol, to pistol and six mags, to assault rifle in the car, to assault rifle in every single interaction was bizarre. I remember taunting National Guard dorks in the airport after 9/11 bc they were issued rifles but no ammo, and now twenty years later every hog in the country has an assault rifle and goes on SWAT LARPs twice a year.
In every car and on every motorbike too
"It's friday, TGIF for employees at a bank in North Hollywood. But when the horror begins, the end of their work-week will become frozen in time. Two men, DEMONS as the police call them, approach a bank"
who the fuck wrote this script :data-laughing:
(Reenactment)
https://crimereads.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-bank-robbery-capital-of-the-world/ It actually is true
holy shit
This is familiar, these the guys that dosed up on muscle relaxants beforehand?
Yeah the documentary covers that. They took barbituates to make themselves calm so they wouldn't panic and make bad decisions. They synchronized their watches to 8 minutes because they calculated that's how long it'd take cops to get there. But they miscalculated and it only took 2-3 minutes for cops to surround the building.
Thousands of rounds fired, but the only people who died were the two bank robbers. But that didn't stop the piggies from using it to justify massive militarization for decades afterward.
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Learned about this from The Dollop!
Really? Which episode?