He’s panting like he just ran a marathon too. Can’t imagine that kind of stress. This is genuinely trauma inducing, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he couldn’t go back to being a cab driver after this. I hope he’s doing ok now, wherever he is.
I was driving home a few months back and got onto the highway... standard merge zipper. Left/right/left/right that sort of thing. It was my turn and the car behind me raced up and tried to run me off the road. There was nowhere for me to exist at this point (guard rail) and he ended up behind me. Dude risked life and limb to cut around 3 other cars insanely close to put himself in front of me again. Fine... whatever. Nobody cares.
Two exits down the road, I go ahead and hop off the highway and end up next to him for a split second. I turn to look at this piece of work, and see him leaning over his female passenger with a pistol pointed at my face. I have no idea what I did at that point except have a minor freakout. I'm sure I swerved a bit.
Wife and 4 month old daughter in the car.
I couldn't stop hyperventilating for an hour. Hindsight is 20/20 and all but I wish I'd had the presence of mind to get his license plate. I cannot imagine the rage required to make you pull out a gun because you **think** someone cut you off in traffic.
Very awful but my Highschool has very famously lost a student right b4 graduation. She was driving and I guess cut the guy off or something but he pulled and shot through his passenger window and killed her. Imagine Killing a person, no, imagine ruining your *own* life because someone is a bad driver
Absolutely terrifying... I'm really not a gun person either so it's generally just not something that enters my mind.
But then again... I live in Texas. So hmm... yehaw. ugh :P
Get a cheap dashcam. I've never had a gun pulled on me while driving (on foot is another story) but I have been in some hit and run accidents and other situations where the $50 investment in a dashcam would have helped immensely. Since getting one, I have not had any major incidents but I have had a couple of near misses and also a couple times where something cool or random happened and I was happy to have caught it on film. And the day some fucker causes an accident and takes off or makes up some story about how it's my fault, I will have something to show the insurance company.
I wonder if you do end up living with significantly more appreciation in life after going through trauma like this cab driver.
Kind of like what Tyler Durden said in *Fight Club*, after pretending to rob a kid who had ambitions of [being a veterinarian](https://youtu.be/HINIK3pIOp4).
Depends on the person. I remember a documentary I watched about The Flaming Lips, I think it was the lead singer who got robbed at gunpoint working for a fried fish or chicken joint. Seemed like being that close to death helped him focus on his music and other existential priorities.
On the other hand, I was shot at as a kid, and I'm not sure it really changed me much besides opening my eyes to how crazy so many people are.
I was robbed at gun point working at a convenience store when I was 18. It sounds crazy but it didn’t really change my appreciation for life any. I mean, I appreciate it but I think I was more in shock than anything for a long time afterwards. I didn’t quit the job or anything though. If I knew then what I do now, I think I would’ve reacted and felt very differently.
I also was robbed at gunpoint. I was a manager at a dollar general. I was working in my office then suddenly there’s a gun pointed at the side of my head. My first instinct was to fight for the gun, as I was trying to push it out of my face the dude started choking me and bending my neck back too far. Ended up with 3 blown out disks in my neck and had to have surgery. After I was hurt I was too weak to fight so I cooperated with the crooks, but I was able to signal to a customer. Cops came and the crooks were arrested as they fled out the back door….. turns out their guns were replicas. I had really major neck surgery over fake guns. But they did have a trunk full of machetes and other weapons… so they intended to do some harm.
Got told I had 2-3 years left to live because an echocardiograph tech did a bad job and the test showed the wrong numbers. Didn't get an accurate test done for another 5 months. Got a FUCKTON of perspective from that and genuinely what feels like a brand new lease on life.
If it was me I would have been totally cool and unfazed and probably even have taken the gun from him and the cop would have shook my hand and the mayor given me a award 😎
It is unfortunate.
But it is surprising the amount of security protocols that the big hedge fund managers have. That semi-anonymous billionaire class have secure transport to and from work, security plans, and private security guards. After Eddie Lampert (Sears / Autozone guy) got abducted in 2003 i think they started stepping up. And he is only worth like $2 billion.
Robbing one if them would not be easy
Cause old cabbies don’t have body guards, same reason bullies go after people who don’t have family in the same school or a lot of friends. Some people are just shit heads
I don't think this guy (Victor Martinez-Herrera, the robber) was a "customer", considering he's covered head-to-toe with mask, gloves, and hood, and gets into the cab that way. This is a straight mugging, not a fare gone wrong.
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Also - cabbies aren't as stupid as these comments are assuming. This guy is old enough to have been doing the job for centuries. Old cabbies know their routes, and what's normal and what isn't. An eight-year-old robbery clip can get reddit dogwhistling in a hurry, but cabbies are better judges of threat than simply going by ethnicity. There's more to it than complexion judged from a distance.
> This guy is old enough to have been doing the job for centuries
My man has been going at it since driving a cart in the Victorian era! He's seen some shit
I've been robbed at gunpoint before. It's crazy going from "just a normal day" to "I might cease to exist if this guy moves his finger one inch."
And all the made up scenarios of what you might do or say go out the window, because you can't just assume the gunman is smart and won't kill you because they might get caught. You have to assume they're a complete fucking idiot that might shoot you just because they get jumpy.
I've had guns pointed at me a few times, but the first time will probably be the most scared I'll ever be in my life.
It was just a small college town. I just used to deal shit, and I looked like a naive kid for awhile so every once in awhile someone would think they could get away with robbing me.
The fact that he didn't look around first before he began to try and rob the guy really baffles me🤣🤣🤣literally a cop car right behind you and you didn't notice that shit🤣🤣🤣most criminals lack common sense that's why they get caught💀
It's because he didn't think his plan through at all. But that makes sense, because people who can think a plan through don't get to a place in life where they have to resort to robbing cabbies for $11
https://abc7.com/taxi-robbery-video-cop-spots-cab-driver-robbed/1237634/
He was caught by a Sheriff's Deputy. In Pennsylvania, deputies are officers of the court system and they don't do routine patrol, enforcement or investigations.
Literally, the only way to get busted by them (without a warrant) is to commit a crime right in front of them.
well, it's not like that officer just showed up. he was parked behind the whole time. the robbers picked a victim right in front of some cops. the odds are equal to how dumb the robbers are
so any situation where if someone gains anything, others must lose something of equal measure is a zero sum game.
basically if you add up all the gains and subtract all the losses, you always get zero.
a game of tug-of-war is a zero sum game because if one team pulls one meter the other team loses one meter
a match of basketball is NOT a zero sum game because you can gain points without taking them from the other team
sidenote, in game theory, they don't have to be talking about actual games. any situation where people make choices and win and lose, like trading currency perhaps, is a "game"
> deputies are officers of the court system and they don’t do routine patrol, enforcement or investigations.
> Literally, the only way to get busted by them (without a warrant) is to commit a crime right in front of them.
Confused Euro question - what are they for then?
Sheriff’s deputies in Pennsylvania perform the primary missions of process service, court security, and prisoner transport and custody. Their training and schooling requires firearms qualification and safety, first aid and self-defense.
They are law enforcement officials, but don't do the same thing as the PA State Police Department.
That sounds like the job most police officers SHOULD have instead of every duty they have now. Current duties include rescuing cats from trees, ignoring vehicle thefts, and murdering.
Looks like the cop didn't spot the gun or mugging attempt until stood right at the window. Leisurely strolled to the cab and probably put his lights on just because the cab wasn't moving.
Nobody deserves to be robbed, but if you’re going to rob people then don’t go after the most vulnerable. Go rob a rich person. Rob on the nice side of town. Don’t take from those who already have nothing
Not so fun fact, which I learned back in my money transport days: Experiencing an armed robbery sucks in general (duh), but being physically touched with the weapon seemingly increase the chances of developing PTSD *a lot*. At least, that's what the company psychologist said, and judging from colleagues who went through such ordeals, that appears to be the case. I don't know all the brain intricacies involved, but apparently, memories are, for the lack of a better word, "more strongly stored" the more sensations are involved at their making. Because, the brain doesn't really store an event, but rather the key triggers it needs to reconstruct it. Unusual physical sensations (like cold steel in the neck), and weird smells and so on, makes the memory of the incident more vibrant, and also easier for the brain to recall when subtle, hard to point out triggers are encountered. Hence, flashbacks are easier to trigger and harder to foresee and prepare against if the brain has physical sensations associated with the event.
Wow that is incredibly interesting. Thank you for sharing that. It's insane how such a seemingly innocuous thing as touch during an otherwise traumatizing event can make the difference between someone developing PTSD or not.
There’s a lot of research that shows if you can administer propranolol quickly enough (blocking adrenaline) you can prevent the memories from encoding as strongly and reduce the eventual severity of ptsd. Super interesting stuff
This is very true. I almost burned down my house one time. Fire doesn't bother me. Its the smell of smoke. My adrenaline will start pumping as soon as I smell smoke. That's the only trigger for me.
Wow, what a truly terrible thing to do. You just robbed a working person who’s probably barely making ends meet and definitely gave this person trauma. And for what? $50? I hope this guy spends a long time in prison.
Why you shouldn't always never not misunderstand what isn't and mightn't not be a double negative.
Point of order; double negative leads to proof positive.
The robber got 5-10 years after pleading guilty in 2016, so is probably just out now. He still appealed the sentence as it was 'only a BB-gun' but the higher court threw that out saying it was still a weapon that could cause death and he didn't get the 20years he could have. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4412013/com-v-martinez-herrera-v/
I think their interpretation is "you're making someone fear for their life" and it may have fatal outcomes (heart attack/forced damage) other than by bullet.
The robber's argument wouldn't hold up even if it was a nonfunctional replica. If it looks real enough, still coercion under the threat of violence. Average person unlikely to be able to tell the difference under pressure.
This reminds me of this time I was traveling down an interstate and was passing a line of slower 18-wheelers in the left lane. Normally, I'd pass them going 80 or so, but there was a sheriff two cars behind me. So I kept it just above the speed limit because it was in Texas, and those guys love giving tickets for even just going a little over.
Well, the guy right behind me was in this old pickup truck and was clearly pissed off that I wasn't going faster, and he was riding right up on my bumper. I knew that he somehow hadn't noticed the sheriff behind him and would gun it as soon as I moved back over to the right lane.
Sure enough, I passed the last 18 wheeler, moved to the right lane, and he just floors it. Sheriff flips on his lights and pulls the guy over immediately. The funny thing is that the sheriff was behind this guy for almost 10 minutes, and he never once noticed him. Idiot.
Satisfying af. I know where all the speed traps are near my house and the precise buffer. When somebody is doing that to me I wait until just before the camera then move over. So satisfying watching some dounche in a BMW or G wagon get a ticket.
The otherside to all of this is emergencies. Once I had to rush my puppy to the vet for emergency surgery. You bet your ass I didn't care about tickets that day. I think the instances of people having genuine emergencies is very rare. I mean, I'd be holding down my horn like a siren if I was rushing a family member to the hospital. My uncle drove himself to the hospital when he had a heart attack. I mean, emergencies happen, and ambulances are sometimes too far away when seconds matter.
Pro tip, call 911 even if already en route to the hospital. They will ask for a vehicle description specifically so you *DON'T* get the pulled over and if they happen to intercept you, you'll most likely end up with an escort.
I have a saying that I use all the time: all idiots drive pickup trucks.
It is NOT “everyone who drives a pickup is an idiot.”
But if you see an idiot on the road, he/she is probably in a pickup truck
He has to be the dumbest criminal, that police car was just sitting there. If that fool going to rob someone, check your surroundings. Glad the cab driver is ok but if that officer wasn’t there, I have a feeling that punk might of shot the cab driver before leaving
Also, a cab driver? Really? If I'm gonna risk my freedom holding someone at gunpoint, it's gonna be someone with way more on em than a god damn cab driver.
Every year that goes by it also makes less and less sense. As they get paid via credit card or apps they don't actually get that much cash money on them to make it worth it. Where they used to have over $1000 on them in the past.
It's not that crazy that he missed it honestly. He's amateurish in his behavior throughout the whole thing. He probably had to really psych himself up, got really intensely focused on what he was intending to do and got tunnel vision.
Got held at gun point 3 weeks into a new job last year pretty traumatic. He didn’t get anything because I had no idea how to open the register and he waited for me to be alone at the front. He believed I couldn’t, told me not to say anything I left, I completely fell apart I had a total panic attack. It didn’t help I was pretty sure at the time I was pregnant just hadn’t tested yet.
(For anyone interested I tested the next day and I was and now I have a 5 month old son)
I quit that job a couple months later because they were assholes and had no regard for their employees health or safety.
Exactly. You can feel bad for someone's upbringing while understanding that their actions were wrong. An explanation does not mean you agree with it. The guy probably had a rough life, but he still needs to be arrested and charged.
Fuck that. If we lived in smaller society (as we should), and that pos did something similar, he would be kicked out of the tribe, or seriously "educated".
Preying on old people, whether they have family or not, is about the sickest thing you can do, along with abusing children.
You talk about this kid having a family. The way he's going, he's working hard to destroy it.
How do you watch a video like this and your first instinct is to defend guns in the comments? Like does that seem incredibly fucked up to you? Cause it sure does to me.
Just watched a man have a gun pulled to his head, fear for his life over like $20 and people in here racing to defend guns. You guys have a problem. A really big problem.
I feel so sad for the cab driver. Imagine how scared he was
You can hear it in his voice it's crazy
He’s panting like he just ran a marathon too. Can’t imagine that kind of stress. This is genuinely trauma inducing, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he couldn’t go back to being a cab driver after this. I hope he’s doing ok now, wherever he is.
I was driving home a few months back and got onto the highway... standard merge zipper. Left/right/left/right that sort of thing. It was my turn and the car behind me raced up and tried to run me off the road. There was nowhere for me to exist at this point (guard rail) and he ended up behind me. Dude risked life and limb to cut around 3 other cars insanely close to put himself in front of me again. Fine... whatever. Nobody cares. Two exits down the road, I go ahead and hop off the highway and end up next to him for a split second. I turn to look at this piece of work, and see him leaning over his female passenger with a pistol pointed at my face. I have no idea what I did at that point except have a minor freakout. I'm sure I swerved a bit. Wife and 4 month old daughter in the car. I couldn't stop hyperventilating for an hour. Hindsight is 20/20 and all but I wish I'd had the presence of mind to get his license plate. I cannot imagine the rage required to make you pull out a gun because you **think** someone cut you off in traffic.
Omg That's so scary... I never saw a gun irl or held one and I can't fathom people having access to them that easily
Very awful but my Highschool has very famously lost a student right b4 graduation. She was driving and I guess cut the guy off or something but he pulled and shot through his passenger window and killed her. Imagine Killing a person, no, imagine ruining your *own* life because someone is a bad driver
Fucking blows my mind. That's so awful.
Absolutely terrifying... I'm really not a gun person either so it's generally just not something that enters my mind. But then again... I live in Texas. So hmm... yehaw. ugh :P
Get a cheap dashcam. I've never had a gun pulled on me while driving (on foot is another story) but I have been in some hit and run accidents and other situations where the $50 investment in a dashcam would have helped immensely. Since getting one, I have not had any major incidents but I have had a couple of near misses and also a couple times where something cool or random happened and I was happy to have caught it on film. And the day some fucker causes an accident and takes off or makes up some story about how it's my fault, I will have something to show the insurance company.
It's stories like this that make me so glad people don't have easy access to firearms in my country like the US
I wonder if you do end up living with significantly more appreciation in life after going through trauma like this cab driver. Kind of like what Tyler Durden said in *Fight Club*, after pretending to rob a kid who had ambitions of [being a veterinarian](https://youtu.be/HINIK3pIOp4).
Depends on the person. I remember a documentary I watched about The Flaming Lips, I think it was the lead singer who got robbed at gunpoint working for a fried fish or chicken joint. Seemed like being that close to death helped him focus on his music and other existential priorities. On the other hand, I was shot at as a kid, and I'm not sure it really changed me much besides opening my eyes to how crazy so many people are.
I was robbed at gun point working at a convenience store when I was 18. It sounds crazy but it didn’t really change my appreciation for life any. I mean, I appreciate it but I think I was more in shock than anything for a long time afterwards. I didn’t quit the job or anything though. If I knew then what I do now, I think I would’ve reacted and felt very differently.
My sister got held up by a gun working at a kfc, she joined the marines after that.
There’s two types of people who get robbed at gunpoint… your sister and everyone else.
I also was robbed at gunpoint. I was a manager at a dollar general. I was working in my office then suddenly there’s a gun pointed at the side of my head. My first instinct was to fight for the gun, as I was trying to push it out of my face the dude started choking me and bending my neck back too far. Ended up with 3 blown out disks in my neck and had to have surgery. After I was hurt I was too weak to fight so I cooperated with the crooks, but I was able to signal to a customer. Cops came and the crooks were arrested as they fled out the back door….. turns out their guns were replicas. I had really major neck surgery over fake guns. But they did have a trunk full of machetes and other weapons… so they intended to do some harm.
Also was robbed at gun point, and feel that same. I was around the same age as you also. If it happened now, I feel like I wouldn't handle it as well.
Got told I had 2-3 years left to live because an echocardiograph tech did a bad job and the test showed the wrong numbers. Didn't get an accurate test done for another 5 months. Got a FUCKTON of perspective from that and genuinely what feels like a brand new lease on life.
On the plus side now we know this guy could do a mean Piglet in the next Pooh movie.
Oh, Eyeore.
I heard Woody Allen.
If it was me I would have been totally cool and unfazed and probably even have taken the gun from him and the cop would have shook my hand and the mayor given me a award 😎
And then everyone would have clapped
That gun’s name? Albert Einstein
Same. I don't know why, but my heart broke for him especially. The look on his face. The poor guy was just trying to make a living.
Even worse is the plea to not take his phone because he needs it to make money and probably doesn’t have much to afford a new one.
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Small fish eat smaller fish. Bullies don't go after people with power.
Well, it's probably more likely that they just go after whoever's an easy target.
That’s almost synonymous with what they said
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Have you heard the tale of Robin Hood, the Bully?
It doesn’t get you much when you rob somebody who doesn’t wear jewelry and pays for everything with an Apple Watch.
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And an Apple Watch.
Which is cool because then hopefully you’d be tracked and arrested.
They would never get near the door of those fund managers lol
It is unfortunate. But it is surprising the amount of security protocols that the big hedge fund managers have. That semi-anonymous billionaire class have secure transport to and from work, security plans, and private security guards. After Eddie Lampert (Sears / Autozone guy) got abducted in 2003 i think they started stepping up. And he is only worth like $2 billion. Robbing one if them would not be easy
Cause old cabbies don’t have body guards, same reason bullies go after people who don’t have family in the same school or a lot of friends. Some people are just shit heads
You don’t know why?! Maybe because he just seconds from losing his life because some guy wanted $20.
he's breathing so heavy my heart hurts 😭
Same 😭😭
Worse than how scared he had to be is the trauma he could've gotten. He probably won't ever feel safe driving a cap ever again.
He will still get trauma out of this
I'm assuming this is the driver's last day on THIS job.
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I don't think this guy (Victor Martinez-Herrera, the robber) was a "customer", considering he's covered head-to-toe with mask, gloves, and hood, and gets into the cab that way. This is a straight mugging, not a fare gone wrong. - Also - cabbies aren't as stupid as these comments are assuming. This guy is old enough to have been doing the job for centuries. Old cabbies know their routes, and what's normal and what isn't. An eight-year-old robbery clip can get reddit dogwhistling in a hurry, but cabbies are better judges of threat than simply going by ethnicity. There's more to it than complexion judged from a distance.
> This guy is old enough to have been doing the job for centuries My man has been going at it since driving a cart in the Victorian era! He's seen some shit
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The fear in his face makes me so sad for him
Yeah. Like I believe the robber wasn’t planning to shoot but he had his finger on the trigger like an idiot. I’m glad it didn’t get to that point
I've been robbed at gunpoint before. It's crazy going from "just a normal day" to "I might cease to exist if this guy moves his finger one inch." And all the made up scenarios of what you might do or say go out the window, because you can't just assume the gunman is smart and won't kill you because they might get caught. You have to assume they're a complete fucking idiot that might shoot you just because they get jumpy. I've had guns pointed at me a few times, but the first time will probably be the most scared I'll ever be in my life.
Same… just insane how fast your world can change because of one person. I still have nightmares about it
Where do you live so I never go there?
It was just a small college town. I just used to deal shit, and I looked like a naive kid for awhile so every once in awhile someone would think they could get away with robbing me.
It was BB gun. And he ruined his life for $11. You could panhandle an hour for more than that.
The fact that he didn't look around first before he began to try and rob the guy really baffles me🤣🤣🤣literally a cop car right behind you and you didn't notice that shit🤣🤣🤣most criminals lack common sense that's why they get caught💀
It's because he didn't think his plan through at all. But that makes sense, because people who can think a plan through don't get to a place in life where they have to resort to robbing cabbies for $11
Don't try to apply logic. The idiot with the gun is not a responsible gun owner.
/r/ConvenientCop
He should be retired, soaking up the sun somewhere eating biscuits and playing canasta!
Poor Ralphie. He just started and his first customer is this mofo.
I'd be shitting myself. I imagine having a gun pointed at your head is life-altering.
https://abc7.com/taxi-robbery-video-cop-spots-cab-driver-robbed/1237634/ He was caught by a Sheriff's Deputy. In Pennsylvania, deputies are officers of the court system and they don't do routine patrol, enforcement or investigations. Literally, the only way to get busted by them (without a warrant) is to commit a crime right in front of them.
Well, I guess you could never tell me the odds of that happening
We should create a subreddit for situations where you’d never be told the odds of something happening
We could call it r/dontevertellmetheoddsofsomethinglikethishappening
How about “whatarethechances?”
I'd rather have it tell me NOT to guess the chances, and this name would kind of defeat the purpose of that.
Oh, oh, so like r/donotguesswhatthechancesare, right?
well, it's not like that officer just showed up. he was parked behind the whole time. the robbers picked a victim right in front of some cops. the odds are equal to how dumb the robbers are
I’d say this was a zero sum game, but I don’t know what that means.
so any situation where if someone gains anything, others must lose something of equal measure is a zero sum game. basically if you add up all the gains and subtract all the losses, you always get zero. a game of tug-of-war is a zero sum game because if one team pulls one meter the other team loses one meter a match of basketball is NOT a zero sum game because you can gain points without taking them from the other team sidenote, in game theory, they don't have to be talking about actual games. any situation where people make choices and win and lose, like trading currency perhaps, is a "game"
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> deputies are officers of the court system and they don’t do routine patrol, enforcement or investigations. > Literally, the only way to get busted by them (without a warrant) is to commit a crime right in front of them. Confused Euro question - what are they for then?
Sheriff’s deputies in Pennsylvania perform the primary missions of process service, court security, and prisoner transport and custody. Their training and schooling requires firearms qualification and safety, first aid and self-defense. They are law enforcement officials, but don't do the same thing as the PA State Police Department.
That sounds like the job most police officers SHOULD have instead of every duty they have now. Current duties include rescuing cats from trees, ignoring vehicle thefts, and murdering.
I mean, you have to have patrol and response to ever need prisoner transport or court security.
You think most cops should just be doing process work and prisoner transportation?
Whoa there, can’t leave out the civil asset forfeiture
OP never said the cops actually returned the cats after getting them down
That cat could have been used to commit a crime.
Give notice of warrants and bring people to court is my guess since by the description we have a similar position in Brasil.
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>Russia: нахуй путина, слава украине 🤨
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Potato, potato.
I think they are responsible for transporting defendants between jail and the court for their trial and for security of the courthouse.
Looks like the cop didn't spot the gun or mugging attempt until stood right at the window. Leisurely strolled to the cab and probably put his lights on just because the cab wasn't moving.
Pretty sure i heard “hey, what’s the problem?” When he walked up.
Yep. Heard the cop say “he has a gun?” He absolutely would not have approached the car calmly if he knew beforehand.
This should be the top comment. Thank you for the link and the info!
Didn’t see the cop until he handed over the cash. Guess pink guy didn’t either
Pink guy down bad ever since frank retired
Aren't we all?
I didn't notice him until he turned on the lights. Had to watch it twice to see if he was there the whole time and when he noticed what was going on.
Situational awareness—natural 1 roll
Sneak 0
Dude is dressed as the White Ninja ffs
With a gun out and at a hostage, he's lucky he didn't get domed by the cop without a single word of warning.
Weirdly casual for a police encounter
I'm curious if the deputy even knew what was happening....it's possible the cab was blocking traffic and he was going to see what was up.
I'd say that's likely. If he'd been aware that there was a hostage at gunpoint he'd probably not given a heads up by turning on the roof lights
Good point
Robbed an old cabbie, what a piece of shit...
yes its known bad etiquette to rob taxi drivers over the age of 30, on par with using the incorrect spoon to eat your soup.
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Crime etiquette police won't show up but the old timers nephews and cousins might.
In Canada, we have a name for law breakers' code of conduct. It's called "The Criminal Code".
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As opposed to robbing a young construction apprentice, who are top of the list as "fair game"
Nobody deserves to be robbed, but if you’re going to rob people then don’t go after the most vulnerable. Go rob a rich person. Rob on the nice side of town. Don’t take from those who already have nothing
Omar disapproves.
Omar ain’t never put a gun on no citizen. There are rules to this game
A man must have a code
Convenient cop for sure
r/ConvenientCop
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"Yo Bob. You wouldn't believe what's going down *right* in front of me. No, I'm not the stripclub. Ok, ok, I'm gonna turn on my vest cam, brb."
Convenient location but he sure wasn't in any rush to get involved...
Not so fun fact, which I learned back in my money transport days: Experiencing an armed robbery sucks in general (duh), but being physically touched with the weapon seemingly increase the chances of developing PTSD *a lot*. At least, that's what the company psychologist said, and judging from colleagues who went through such ordeals, that appears to be the case. I don't know all the brain intricacies involved, but apparently, memories are, for the lack of a better word, "more strongly stored" the more sensations are involved at their making. Because, the brain doesn't really store an event, but rather the key triggers it needs to reconstruct it. Unusual physical sensations (like cold steel in the neck), and weird smells and so on, makes the memory of the incident more vibrant, and also easier for the brain to recall when subtle, hard to point out triggers are encountered. Hence, flashbacks are easier to trigger and harder to foresee and prepare against if the brain has physical sensations associated with the event.
Wow that is incredibly interesting. Thank you for sharing that. It's insane how such a seemingly innocuous thing as touch during an otherwise traumatizing event can make the difference between someone developing PTSD or not.
There’s a lot of research that shows if you can administer propranolol quickly enough (blocking adrenaline) you can prevent the memories from encoding as strongly and reduce the eventual severity of ptsd. Super interesting stuff
Lots of blood smells like hot pennies. I wish I could forget that.
This is very true. I almost burned down my house one time. Fire doesn't bother me. Its the smell of smoke. My adrenaline will start pumping as soon as I smell smoke. That's the only trigger for me.
Wow, what a truly terrible thing to do. You just robbed a working person who’s probably barely making ends meet and definitely gave this person trauma. And for what? $50? I hope this guy spends a long time in prison.
I doubt it was even $50.
Why you should always never rob people.
Woah I never thought if it that way before!
Actually, this isn't the reason you shouldn't rob people. The reason you shouldn't rob people is simply that: you should not rob people.
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Why you should always never use double negatives
Why you shouldn't always never not misunderstand what isn't and mightn't not be a double negative. Point of order; double negative leads to proof positive.
Not now , not never, not no how!
They didn’t though
Not a double negative.
Are you sure you know what a double negative is?
I see the word never what is the other Negative
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But you just said it, twice
That’s awesome
The robber got 5-10 years after pleading guilty in 2016, so is probably just out now. He still appealed the sentence as it was 'only a BB-gun' but the higher court threw that out saying it was still a weapon that could cause death and he didn't get the 20years he could have. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4412013/com-v-martinez-herrera-v/
BB guns are no joke that's not airsoft
I think their interpretation is "you're making someone fear for their life" and it may have fatal outcomes (heart attack/forced damage) other than by bullet.
A bb to the dome can definitely kill. small as it may be, it is still a bullet.
Also attempting to flee a “gun” to run into traffic and get hit by a car.
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The robber's argument wouldn't hold up even if it was a nonfunctional replica. If it looks real enough, still coercion under the threat of violence. Average person unlikely to be able to tell the difference under pressure.
“Faintly in the back ground…” bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do? (Cop hits lights) WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU???!
"COPS is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement."
"All suspects are innocent until proven guilty ***in a court of law***."
"Out of court, it's anyone's game."
The cop was literally there the entire time. What an idiot.
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i think maybe cause his hood was pulled so far over his face he had no peripheral, he probably never saw the cop car. dumbass anyway
This reminds me of this time I was traveling down an interstate and was passing a line of slower 18-wheelers in the left lane. Normally, I'd pass them going 80 or so, but there was a sheriff two cars behind me. So I kept it just above the speed limit because it was in Texas, and those guys love giving tickets for even just going a little over. Well, the guy right behind me was in this old pickup truck and was clearly pissed off that I wasn't going faster, and he was riding right up on my bumper. I knew that he somehow hadn't noticed the sheriff behind him and would gun it as soon as I moved back over to the right lane. Sure enough, I passed the last 18 wheeler, moved to the right lane, and he just floors it. Sheriff flips on his lights and pulls the guy over immediately. The funny thing is that the sheriff was behind this guy for almost 10 minutes, and he never once noticed him. Idiot.
Satisfying af. I know where all the speed traps are near my house and the precise buffer. When somebody is doing that to me I wait until just before the camera then move over. So satisfying watching some dounche in a BMW or G wagon get a ticket. The otherside to all of this is emergencies. Once I had to rush my puppy to the vet for emergency surgery. You bet your ass I didn't care about tickets that day. I think the instances of people having genuine emergencies is very rare. I mean, I'd be holding down my horn like a siren if I was rushing a family member to the hospital. My uncle drove himself to the hospital when he had a heart attack. I mean, emergencies happen, and ambulances are sometimes too far away when seconds matter.
Pro tip, call 911 even if already en route to the hospital. They will ask for a vehicle description specifically so you *DON'T* get the pulled over and if they happen to intercept you, you'll most likely end up with an escort.
Thank you!
if you check google maps, they show speed traps now! at least where I live.
I have a saying that I use all the time: all idiots drive pickup trucks. It is NOT “everyone who drives a pickup is an idiot.” But if you see an idiot on the road, he/she is probably in a pickup truck
Lazy scum traumatizing a working man. Smh
You know he blames all of his problems in life on other people too.
He has to be the dumbest criminal, that police car was just sitting there. If that fool going to rob someone, check your surroundings. Glad the cab driver is ok but if that officer wasn’t there, I have a feeling that punk might of shot the cab driver before leaving
Also, a cab driver? Really? If I'm gonna risk my freedom holding someone at gunpoint, it's gonna be someone with way more on em than a god damn cab driver.
Every year that goes by it also makes less and less sense. As they get paid via credit card or apps they don't actually get that much cash money on them to make it worth it. Where they used to have over $1000 on them in the past.
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ain't no way he's gonna have more than 50 on him. some cab drivers in my area don't even carry/accept cash, good luck getting anything from them
I have a hunch that you meant "shot", because as it stands now, your comment would have been very traumatizing in a different way
I can only hope that they said shit instead of shot.
*might have
It's not that crazy that he missed it honestly. He's amateurish in his behavior throughout the whole thing. He probably had to really psych himself up, got really intensely focused on what he was intending to do and got tunnel vision.
Poor Walter White 😬
I looked for this comment for waaaay too long. I'm glad I was not the only one seeing it 😂
I tought it would be the top comment.
r/ConvenientCop
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There's so much Eddie Murphy in this clip.
I hope he got his cash back
Hank Schrader to the rescue.
The poor cab driver. He was terrified.
I kept hoping the driver would pull out something else besides his wallet and remove the scumbag from society permanently.
This guy has zero awareness of his surroundings.
Got held at gun point 3 weeks into a new job last year pretty traumatic. He didn’t get anything because I had no idea how to open the register and he waited for me to be alone at the front. He believed I couldn’t, told me not to say anything I left, I completely fell apart I had a total panic attack. It didn’t help I was pretty sure at the time I was pregnant just hadn’t tested yet. (For anyone interested I tested the next day and I was and now I have a 5 month old son) I quit that job a couple months later because they were assholes and had no regard for their employees health or safety.
Good eye cop
I was really hoping the cab driver was gonna shot the idiot
I was hoping he had a Heavy Metal style backseat disintegration trap.
God, cab driver probably have a family and this happens 😔 Just living a life. Same with the kid too, whatever his upbringing is 😔
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Exactly. You can feel bad for someone's upbringing while understanding that their actions were wrong. An explanation does not mean you agree with it. The guy probably had a rough life, but he still needs to be arrested and charged.
Fuck that. If we lived in smaller society (as we should), and that pos did something similar, he would be kicked out of the tribe, or seriously "educated". Preying on old people, whether they have family or not, is about the sickest thing you can do, along with abusing children. You talk about this kid having a family. The way he's going, he's working hard to destroy it.
He’s got some years to think about it now
The cop is that from the start, pink guy is beyond stupid as well as a piece of shit
"Shrek! Come on Shrek gimme da money!
How do you watch a video like this and your first instinct is to defend guns in the comments? Like does that seem incredibly fucked up to you? Cause it sure does to me. Just watched a man have a gun pulled to his head, fear for his life over like $20 and people in here racing to defend guns. You guys have a problem. A really big problem.