South African Cyclist Catches Bike Robbery on Video

Publisher:
Malcolm Fox/YouTube
Publication Date:
31 May 2014
Tags:
South Africa, Legal and Judicial Affairs

A mountain biker was robbed at gunpoint - but filmed the encounter with a head-mounted video camera. The cyclist was riding from Ongegund in Somerset West in South Africa when an armed gunmen and two others stopped him and took his cellphone, car keys, sunglasses and bike. "Fortunately they did not have a clue what a GoPro video camera was and this is the evidence that will assist in their prosecution," he is quoted as saying.

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