Experience gunpoint robbery firsthand with a head-mounted GoPro

It’s difficult to mosey around the internet on any given day without running into a multitude of first-person videos shot from a GoPro camera. Normally, these videos are of people jumping off things, or getting extremely close to either adorable or dangerous (or both) wildlife. Sometimes, though, the videos are more similar in content to Russian dash cams, capturing unintentional, occasionally harrowing events. YouTube user Lucky Jakkals captured one of these such events when he was robbed at gunpoint.

While going for a sunny day solo bike ride, Jakkals was abruptly stopped by a lone man who ran out into a clearing, pulled out a concealed gun, and pointed it in his direction. Weirdly, the gunman casually held the gun with a loose grip, as if it were some kind of afterthought. Soon after being stopped by what at first appears to be a single gunman, more men show up to, presumably, ensure the robbery goes smoothly.

The criminal and his gang don’t seem to worry much about the camera; the gunman looks directly at it a couple of times, so either he didn’t realize the implications of it during the heat of the robbery, or simply didn’t care. The GoPro wasn’t exactly tiny — you can clearly make out that the man has a helmet-mounted GoPro in his shadow on the ground.

Luckily, the victim appeared to get away unharmed. He lost his bicycle and a few belongings, but he could’ve lost much more had the men been more aggressive. As documented in the video, he also remained fairly calm during the short ordeal, so though he lost his bike, he can at least impress his friends with the ice running through his veins.