Jim Roach found himself surrounded by three armed robbers last Friday in the Oakland Hills who put a gun to his ribs and demanded his valuables.
A photographer was robbed at gunpoint in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early morning just as he was setting up to take wildlife photos.
Jim Roach, 72, found himself surrounded by three armed robbers last Friday in the Oakland Hills, east of San Fransico, who put a gun to his ribs and demanded his valuables. “They said ‘Give me your phone’ and then I couldn’t find my phone and they got angry and they looked in my car for my phone and they found my camera,”“I do take precautions all the time I got caught a little off-guard with this one because it was real early in the morning and I wasn’t quite expecting it, but I’m usually very cautious.
“Until this event, I didn’t realize that my pictures were this popular,” he says. “When this happened, wow, the outpouring of love on Nextdoor was over the top.”in a bid to raise money to replace his stolen R5, Canon 100-500mm lens, and a 2x extender. The robbers used Roach’s credit card at a gas station within half an hour of the hold-up and the photographer is having to deal with replacing his ID, cards, and mobile phone.. “Clearly somebody’s telling them to do what they’re doing and teaching them what to do. They’re just as much victims as I am if you ask me.”
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