Originally published at: Watch this new heart-pounding edit of last year's South African armored car heist | Boing Boing
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That dude is an absolute fucking badass. No way I could have kept my cool like that.
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Yikes. I had previously seen the initial bit of video, when they were first fired upon, but thought they escaped and that’s where it ended - I had no idea how long and stressful the whole ordeal actually was, nor how many people and vehicles were involved. Damn, that was very much an action movie sequence - I’m now re-evaluating how I view action movies and their realism.
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Forth day on the job?!?
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And the first day was probably orientation, badging and payroll stuff.
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I feel like I was watching Heat 2 or something. With the editing and the music it was a good as any action film.
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Get these guys on the big screen. Buddy action movie stardom is just a re-enactment away.
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Amazing how early he was onto them. He was repeatedly looking in the rear view mirror well before any shots were fired or the car zoomed up next to them
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It was put together so well that by the end I had forgotten it wasn’t a movie.
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I feel for the new recruit on his fourth day.
“So, uh, does this kind of thing happen often?”
“Usually not more than twice a day.”
“Oh. That’s good.”
I wonder about the wisdom of leaving your armored vehicle to take a shot at the heavily-armed dudes who’ve just tried to jack you, but I guess that if you’re a sitting duck you don’t really just want to sit and wait for them to put holes in your bulletproof glass from close range. Your best dee-fense is a good o-ffense, as they say. The glass held up nicely, though.
EDIT: I Googled for “N4 highway armed robbery” and Google’s response was basically “Which one?” It sounds like that particular road is … bad … when it comes to high-speed shoot-outs between armored trucks and heavily-armed gangs. Gotta make for a stressful commute.
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Yeah, from the original I didn’t realize they turned around and drove against traffic for a while, then turned around and headed straight for the robbers!
It ends too soon, just when he gets out with the gun.
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I apologize to all the action movies where I said, “Pfft, no one actually does stuff like this in reality!”
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Yeah I always gave that stuff a pass due to artistic license, and hell, they want to make things interesting even if it’s so obviously ridiculous and would never happen in real life.
Next up: real life video of car chase that destroys a fruit vendor’s cart
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… and shaking hands with his new colleagues… any of which could have set up the armored car as a target for criminal buddies.
I seem to mis-remember this from some time ago
to be prezeiss… april 30 2021…
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