The Story & Footage of LA's Most Infamous Heist Gone Wrong 

Yikes

I'd do it if I had money

Drink Mug Root Beer and I will do a School Presentation with your videos on it.

@@wanderer9815 this is a certified mug moment

Ok so Raycon headphones have 32 hours of battery life but 8 hours of playtime, what is the other 24 hours of battery life for?

Yup not to mention they found a copy of heat in the robbers house

@@grantbrendonsource?

@@thebig0opsyshow505 source? he made it the f*** up

​@thebig0opsyshow505 Don't quote me on this, but I vaguely remember that the police report after investigating the guys house, they did find a copy of Heat in the living room I believe. Again, I could be wrong, but it does sound familiar.

Anybody can learn how to shoot rifles and fight the cops heavily-armed but you have to be willing to die LOL

yeah you see that bank robber, He's mine

I think it might be news copter footage that was claimed. I figure the LAPD copter footage would be public record.

Welcome to late-stage capitalism, my guy 👉😎👉

If it's news station footage that's essentially the same as Disney or Universal. That's why many informative vids on RU-vid, that are on specific events, don't use famous or well-known footage that is owned by companies. Example: the Zapruder film with the JFK assassination, the "UFO" mass sighting footage of lights over a mountain range in Arizona or New Mexico (I forget which), etc. You'll see the footage on the History Channel or Discovery because they pay the rights to use that footage. Typically, yt channels don't because it's expensive so they'll only use stills or different footage that is close enough. Typically the companies that own the footage are very aggressive at citing videos that use their footage.

@EL AUTENTICO Enjoy the taste of that bootleather, fellow citizen. 👉😎👉

Oh that is too funny... It was Anthony or Flea from the Peppers in the day, they would take turns! I was a few miles away on my 40th birthday at work the day of this!

I’m giggling this is so funny to me 😭😭 “oh hey Joey, the usual?” “yep. how’s the family?”

Cyrus from tpb irl?

I was gonna like your comment, but it's at a satisfying 333 likes

Small banks and credit unions used to be insanely easy to rob. Honestly, a ton of them still are. There are career bank robbers who’ve been doing it for decades

So sick of reading comments about how bad their aim was. They were't trying to kill anyone, this was suppressive fire. Army's teach that yes, also Militias... This guy gets it

I genuinely thought it was called leapfrogging. :-)

​@@SarafinaSummersterminology varies

@@doopdu1237 They even told the hostages to get inside the vault knowing that the entire lobby of the bank was more than likely going to be lit up when half of the LAPD's gunfire.

I mean, it's not something that is an extraordinary idea. Pretty logical. Almost obvious.

that's so true. same can be done during, bomb threats, robberies, etc. which is scary to think that if multiple serious crimes happened at once the police would be overwhelmed and things would be much worse

@@criticalmoment3859 Makes sense, gonna have a lot of angry customers though hahaha.

@@criticalmoment3859 i assure you they didnt close down the thousands of other banks in LA because this one was being robbed

Yes and no

@@cheekibreekigameringandsuc1037 that is kind of like what Anders Brevik did, he bombed a some office and then went postal on some people on an island.

He may not have understood that, in the movies cars stop bullets so people think that's how it really is.

well it depends on the range to the gun.

​@@herrschmidt5477 at 300 yards a 7.62x39 has the same foot/pounds of energy as a .44 Magnum. Even a "lowly" 9mm Luger can punch through both windshields of a car. Cars are not safe from gunfire in any way shape or form. Even hiding behind the engine block can cause you to take shrapnel or richochets from the bullet tearing through the body of the vehicle. If you take cover behind a vehicle, it's better to be about a body's length away. "Stay off the walls"

@@kalashnikovdog6131 Finally someone who understands these kinds of things hahaha

Jorge Viera initially didnt understand that the person he was filming was one of the robbers, he thought it was a SWAT officer. So it wasnt so much he didnt care, it was that he didnt know, and by the time he knew he was in the line of fire with no way to retreat (plus it made for some exceptional footage).

It's not crazy at all, its called poor journalism. People arent interested in getting the facts correct, they just want to shit out content as quickly as possible to profit off it. Yeah this shootout was caught mostly on camera, but then someone making the documentaries would need to *watch it* and that takes time, time these people dont want to waste in getting correct information, they just wanna vomit their content into the world and let the money roll in. "Good" journalism doesnt exist when those journalists stand to make good money off something.

Almost every historical event you read about is riddled with errors and inaccuracies.

RU-vid and actual filmmakers are really not that different. Then you have the media just making stuff up. Read the blog he mentioned at the start Bears in the Beehive. Now they did their homework.

@@WilliamLyons-ym7ee This documentary is just as bad !! 😂

​@@christopherfoster3744 Nah lmao Wendigoon's account is pretty accurate.

damn sorry to hear that

I guess that's also done to prevent a crowd from forming, taking photos, obstructing the flow of traffic/people.

My neighbor across the street (94) was killed when hit by a car crossing the street to the mailbox! After running out and finding out what happened?!?! I ran back to the house and grabbed a sheet and placed it Over him. It was out of Respect! He was 94 and Volunteered at the Elderly Home Center! His initials are DG!

You've probably heard that in stressful situations your training takes over? I'm sure this is what happened here. The cops would have been utterly overwhelmed by the events and in order to avoid paralysis, their psyches reached for a to-do list to follow. The first steps would be to secure any weapons and to secure any bodies for all the reasons the other commenters mentioned above. Can you imagine a young patrol officer walking through his front door at the end of that shift??? What would have gone through his head? At least not a .308 round, I suppose...

It is usually a mix of both. In germany for example they cover accident sites so people don't stop to watch and hinder things going on around them but also especially in accidents or for victims it is disrespectful to watch for enterprise (There's also fines these days for people that do that which i fully agree with)

ahead? I see what you did there...... if he had gotten the head off and played catch that'd be called Chuck D Head...eh?? ugh

The Telltale Head

Pssh, that’s rookie stuff. Try decapitating and eating someone’s head they just met on a bus for the lolz (he’s out on insanity charges) THANKS CANADIAN JUSTICE.

Probably wanted to face off with a stronger opponent after that one

The severed embalmed head ??

Fun fact about that, he didn't intend to hurt anyone, and he didn't. He only damaged property, in retaliation for the fact that the city fucked him over hard.

its killdozer and Count Dankula did a 40min video on it

*Marvin Heemeyer* was an American patriot 🌺

Oh man I had forgotten about that, that whole saga is absolutely bonkers

All hail marvin meeyer

speak softly and carry an ak off screen

He has big guns

@@Tonysopranoyafinook fr I was like “WHY DO YOU HAVE THAT?!?”

​@@libbyfemenella1308 ask yourself why he wears Hawaiian shirts and you'll understand why he needs a grenade launcher. Also he talks about conspiracies that will probably put him in grave danger.

​@@libbyfemenella1308 well... He's american, do you need more explanation than that? 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

Customer Service for bank Robbers

Banks open at 8 here

Can you imagine 2 or 3 different bank robbers showing up at the same bank

Wild😂😂😂

you could stop at 5 or 6 banks, or just one

Was looking for this comment😂😂😂

He's Swat and they was having an exercise training session when they was called for immediate assistance

Your grandma must've had ovaries of steel, because I would have been held up once, had a panic attack, and quit right on the spot. I would not go back thank you lol

@@pogostix6097 Be held up enough and you became a south american

​@@abra4662 A fate worse than death.

​@@RoosterFloyd😂😂

I came back from Iraq and went to work security at a bank that had gotten robbed three times in six months. You're so cocky for a while after you've been in battle that you go toe-to-toe with big huge guys and it's a pleasure because they're not suicide bombers. The bank was in a grocery store and it was boring, so you got to be genuinely useful to all the customers, if you bothered to learn all about the store. It was a great feeling having the necessary information to answer all sorts of questions.

Don't insult him

@@jibbajabba Whyd you think im insulting him?? f anything I’m complimenting his reporting chops. In all seriousness dudes a gem 💎

@@jibbajabba welcome to the internet Get gud

@@Zain-fu9zp you're insulting him because reporters are gay

@@druffner that's an insult to gay people, we're not *reporters*

Let me know when you get the flu so I know to stay inside.

Your use of props added to the video.

I hope it's not rude to have laughed at that... But I did. She had to be hard as fuck to keep working there. Realistically though, that's the best way to rob someone and things would be much better if we just had more polite armed robbers. Jokes aside, it's a very effective strategy, hell it's humane in a way. Killing someone that you're robbing makes no sense; you're just adding a murder charge. D.B. Cooper was described as extremely kind. When asked by his hostage "why?" he told her "It's not that I have a grudge against you or your airline. I just have a grudge." According to her, he kept reassuring her that everything was going to be okay, despite the *bomb* on him. I think that's a large contribution as to why he was the only successful hijacker. He even told the crew (who he had lock themselves in the cockpit) "Have a good day" before he jumped out. He was so polite that he *got the plane grounded and evacuated without them knowing about the hijack. (Edit: While you might assume Stockholm Syndrome, there wasn't enough time, she didn't help him, she was still a *hostage*.) It's fascinating when you think about it, someone can be doing an awful crime while still acting like good people. Maybe being a good person and committing awful crimes aren't mutually exclusive...

@@XXMatt0040XXwell, there’s quite a few stories out there of so-called “good” people who do bad things. The thieves with hearts of gold. Of course, stories are just that. Stories. So perhaps tellings of them should be taken with a grain of salt.

Those numbers would probably be a lot higher now

​@@pewpewplasma3793 They should always be taken with a grain of salt. But criminals aren't necessarily bad people, some are just people who haven't figured out how to live law-abiding lives.

​@@viktorbirkeland6520and laws aren't necessarily good either p.s I agree with you not tryna start anything

How did your mom react to the letter?

Yes, please, tell us.

I really hope she took legal action towards the bank then!!

Ah like the pyramid schemes.

@@davieboy45123 Same

I believe the Metro officers were having a training day when they were notified to respond to the scene which was miles away. Also, I heard that Van Nuys Sgt. Papworth made the decision to obtain AR's from B&B Gun Store.

THE MAN HIMSELF LIKED MY COMMENT

@@CadeTaylor197 Dawg he LOVED your comment

Thanks Joseph Stalin

BASED

@@Ricekrispy10 haha, even better comrade

Unfortunate that my British brothers and sisters still suffer under unjust laws!!! PARALMENT SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GIVE YOUR PEOPLE A CHANCE TP DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST THIS SHIT!!! Right to a fun should be in EVERY country!!!

It’s not a prop gun I bet he actually owns guns and goes hunting

​@Brian Stabile I think he knows that, it's why he put quotations.

He’s from the south 😂

It's...airsoft or something

Yeah the cops could see he had major leg wounds and he was face down and handcuffed,, they coulda took a couple belts or whatever and did some tourniquets on his thighs but I suppose they kinda had a little grudge thing going... What was it like 7 or 8 cops with serious bullet wounds and that many innocent people too,, still I'd want to see him stand trial and imo the cops were just being pricks....

They should have been charged with murder for not getting him help,,,,,,,,,,,cops are not Judge , jury or Hangman

@@markgray6982 Charged with murder? 🤣 They saved the taxpayers a ton of money on this loser!

And he would’ve most likely shed some light on the other robberies they were suspected of

@@hobertrodric4440 He might have but it's unlikely,, Emil was pretty smart so whatever he stashed was probably accessible by his family.... And since he and Larry had offed a security guy while robbing an armored car,, there was no way he was going to escape a life prison sentence so there's no way he'd help the state get back any money......

I've seen a few videos on Waco that have now been removed. Curious.

I’d love to go to a range with hkm

I was thinking the same thing I’d love to see him cover Waco but he’d have to talk in code like the MLK video 😂

I concur; bill hicks would be proud as fuck.

somehow i feel like if wendigoon covered waco he would "commit suicide" with a sniper rifle fired from a helicopter a mile away

dude what the fuck??!!!

Literally looks like a Rdr2 mission.

These two had 100% seen Heat too many times.

@@viderevero1338 looks like Saint Denis heist

​@@viderevero1338more like GTA

O pior é que é verdade kkkk

Considerando a nossa situação eu não duvido que tal coisa tenha acontecido.

Novo Cangaço it's a Northern Hollywood shootout every week.

hue

@@higgsbonbon hue

@Zoomer Stasi they said only *fatalities*

Damn how you get signal underground?

My fellow old head! I was looking for anyone that experienced that as well in the comments. It was nuts and the next week drove it home as the news talked about it so much.

@@elgringofeo9348 A distributed antenna system, Gringo.

@@Und3rgroundMan nice

Yeah. Airsoft…..

Pretty handy to have access to an Airsoft like that! Props!

Nice Airsoft for sure.

He was def not one of them def not...

@@vopogon3248 nah bro its just really modified nerf guns trust me

LOL

It also didn't have a 'kill switch'. Emil just didnt know how to drive stick.

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Thanks for posting your comment. Now I don't need to. Jeep trucks were cool old rigs.

jeep commanche not gladiator !

Like we did in Nam.

My dad was one of the bullets that was fired

@@Ratedcrackshot my dad was a tire that got blown with the bullets that where fired

My dad was one of the bulletproof vests yours sat on.

@@erichughes284 I was just scrolling through these comments to see if anybody would mention what you just did for that simple fact

Exactly right

It was done on purpose. look into it.

@@Big_AlMC 🤓

California cops just built different than Texas cops. Talk means nothing when shit hits the fan.

Some sick boy. Not a man.

new ones werent being sold.....that was the ban.....not owning them

@@markfrost2707 An assault weapon is capable of fully automatic fire, which the criminals used and are illegal in the state of California…then stack on top the “assault weapon ban” that actually banned non-assault weapons like the AR15 which is NOT capable of auto and is NOT an assault weapon. Robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, and attempted murder are all illegal yet criminals ignore those. The only people that obey laws are the law abiding. Making laws against the best tools for self defense does not stop criminality, it just creates more victims for criminals. BTW, criminals can buy an illegal firearm out of a trunk of a car, how’d the weapons ban focus on or stop those sales? Answer: It didn’t. It was directed at making legal sales illegal.

Guns: whats the point they're already on the streets. Anything else: think of the children

My mom had some interesting stories from her time as a banker. She got the classic "guy in a baseball cap calmly pushing a note over the counter" experience. Can't imagine a movie-style takeover. Sounds like a wild ride.

We're all glad you are okay after that incident

It still baffles me why tellers aren't provided gun training and aren't armed.

I'm so sorry you had to go through that Are you in therapy if that isn't tmi

@@Keirnoth you know what that's a good question

They were wild in the 90s. If that type a fervor happened with crime now it'll be recorded with a Go-Pro live on Twitch...

nah it's all over the world like that: You don't steal from the rich and powerful. Even in Germany we got a quite high death toll on bank robberies compared to other crimes even if it's just about silly money and no one really got hurt.

of course Jailbot from superjail is commenting on this video!

should have happened after the 70s lmao

Having a gun pointed at you only seems non-violent until you have it happen to you.

😂

Life always finds a way... to trump art.

>told everyone what he said too Oh no you didn't

Yeah this definitely happened

this scene is actually the most realistic gunfight scene is any movie ever, so its incredibly wrong

It's important you learn about them, especially if you're from the US. Many countries don't have anything like the Second Amendment. It'll keep you from sounding like you're not informed on this issue when you are demanding gun control to stop people from getting an "Assault Rifle 15" and "Assault Weapons".

I've taken phenobarbital before, in the form of a migraine medication, and it really does just feel like it calms your nerves in a mild way, similar to a weak anxiety medication.

"Shit its whatever man, good run" BANG -Larry no cap

Wonder how many mercs know this trick.

@@lakeside1168 "Oh man cops just shot me in the head." -Emil said, calmly

@@DogeickBateman "Damn bro GGs" -Emil as hes laying on the ground dying

Agreed

Agreed

Agreed

Agreed

Agreed

I agree. I was already subbed before watching this video but it's one of my favorite retelling of this incident!

Agreed!

Yeah he didn't say "assault weapon" even once 😂

Ikr?! And when he pulled out bullets for reference I was like “holy sh!t”.

@@juice6199 maybe the guy just prefers to not curse? Who cares?

me too man

I just did the exact same thing and it also had an impact on me. I was on the phone telling someone about it for an hour earlier haha

His first video made me want to read the entire Comedy.. and his videos helped tremendously

I did the same thing let’s go!!

yess!! same

"hey let's not approach the dude who spent the last half hour trying to turn us into swiss cheese to give him useless superficial medical attention and will probably try to kill us anyway". Legitimately a good tactical decision, if you want medical assistance from the cops don't larp as war machine.

No doubt about it. I'm cool with that.

@@wyattblackwood3927 same

@@wyattblackwood3927 I'm not. Police should not able to decide who lives or dies, only the courts and God.

@@thelonelypilot if EMS and paramedics are busy patching up citizens and police officers who could have been killed by this lunatic and he dies before they get to him, I'm good with that. There are some people in society who just should not be allowed to live. If that makes me a bad person in your eyes, then I'm a bad person. I'm also good with that too. You're lucky, I usually don't respond to cowards who hide behind fake screen names.

Super based

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Real Americans can tell by the sound 😜

*demonstrates chambering real gun moments later

LAPD was like: "shit we haven't sufficiently abused our power today, oooh look an elderly couple!"

@@theguystealingyourinternet3712 cops do have a lot of experience in abusing people

He should do a video on the 1986 Miami-dade shootout, it was another important shootout in the history of law enforcement as it led to the phasing out of revolvers in favor of semi-auto handguns

Honestly I thought how the police in Die Hard acted was inaccurate because how incompetent they were, turn out it VERY accurate.

Dude found the only reliable beta mag on the planet

I did like your comment because in general I agree but I would like to point out that his was built by Bushmaster. In the 90's they were the gold standard.

@@austinknowlton1783 yeah but then he cut the barrel from 20” to 16” which is what causes the issue. The dissipator sold by bushmaster had a low profile gas lock under the handguard and was a faux dissipator. The rifle used didn’t have that. I’ve got one of those bushmaster uppers and it’s an absolute beast, I just wouldn’t make it less reliable.

I thought the same thing these guys obviously have tan plenty of ammo through their gear to know it’ll work

Well considering they were using AK-47s, not AR-15s

People who’s instinctive reaction after you’ve done something wrong is to cover it up probably are not the best people to be cops. And yet, so many of them are.

@@1blackice1 the people who shouldn't have power are most likely to seek it out

Honestly I don't think there's much more mystery to it than "these two shot a bunch of our guys, so fuck em we're just gonna let them bleed out" and everything else was just an on-the-fly cover up not thinking anyone would really care that much to look into it. The police are corrupt, but that corruption isn't always some elaborate scheme.

I don't know if it was the same division, but I remember hearing on the news about the LAPD Rampart division having a bit of the ol' corruption and being investigated for it.

@@lainiwakura1776 LAPD and corruption go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly especially back in the 80’s and 90’s no surprise if they played a part in it

Was going to say it looked just like the jeep truck my grandpa used to have so probably wasn’t wrong

dawg just call it a jeep

Came to the comments to make sure someone pointed this out lol

It was a Jeep J10

Juck

Coming from the UK I'd just let them rob the 7/11. It's insured, basically a victimless crime. Absolutely not worth getting shot over

based

Average Texan day. (Buy beer and get your free gun now!)

Unless they're kids in a school*

@@BiggestCorvid Damn, you right

yep, looks like a j10. i had one in the 1980s. definitely unmistakably a jeep.

Nah dude probably had a bad feeling that happens to me sometimes

I know it's a GTA joke but they actually did that back in '95 or thereabouts. Their Chevrolet Celebrity was originally blue, and they resprayed it white after the Herman Cook murder.

Thats how the old timers did it. Getaway driver out side would've been the key to success in the North LA robbers.

@@BarneyStoleMyKids screw it. It's a lotta effort to jack another car. Paints cheap

They should've taken a hostage, so the cops can't shoot back as much

Wendi(goon)

As anyone always should.

and during the conspirancy theory iceberg, multiple diagrams and secret books to aid in his explaining

He's very in depth on his research. I believe he actually encountered alternates in person for research on the Mandela catalog.

@@coledibiase5971 nah, only Americans

Yes!

Weirdo

@@JOSWAY787 🤓

😕😕😕😮Yikes

@@ashleyshim2078 shut

i think the risk is adding to the glamorisation of it, and it going the way of mass shootings, where it increases due to desire for infamy and notoriety. so, one has to be very careful with how they go about it. this one works because no one died, the shooters are dead, no money got stolen, and it is now virtually impossible to do what they did due to introduced methods of policing and robbery prevention (as well as identification methods).

@@shadycatz85 To be honest covering murders runs the same risk.

I agree, but at the same time it is still educational for a full breakdown of how these tragic events played out since a sanitized shortened version of events can lead to misunderstandings

@@shadycatz85 I think it's the way one can tell the story that makes a difference. Like, let's not say they were "mad evil geniuses" and I think we're good.

Look up the “Donut Operator” ex cop with a chill personality and his main thing is reviewing shootings he actually did one for this incident too

Yup! 1963 Cherokee 👍

@@billymanilli pretty sure thats a gladiator though

@@foxy126pl6 Can't argue with ya there! lol dunno why I typed Cherokee... must've been one of those "4am comments" 🥱🙃

It's a jeep thing. You wouldn't understand

You got that from the documentary

Classic. LAPD's the fucking worst.

Wait...the state and ATF are charging the gun store owner for supplying the LAPD with the guns they requisitioned?

California..lol

thin blue line is a motherfucker eh?

So fucking glad I don't live in California

"giggling like a schoolgirl" don't say that, it's weird.

@@getchaloot2097 It’s a common expression.

I started laughing too and was like Wait - Hahahahaha

It's oddly funny learning how fast the world can turn into real life grand theft auto with robberies happening multiple times a day in a single city.

@@toxiccorgi2108 And this was years before grand theft auto or even Doom was a thing.

I'm sure they see his RU-vid channel and then understand why it's in his search list. He probably also uses a vpn

lets not pretend hes in danger or something thats just cringe

pretty cringe

@@backwoodsjunkie08 You have no idea what a vpn does lol

Yes. Every day an FBI agent rolls out of bed, grabs his gun, and then scrolls through Wendigoon's channel to see if he uploaded today and got to close to the truth. When the agent sees nothing here he just sets his gun down and mutters "Not today... not today."