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The most audacious shootout in recent American history. Many of you guys probably know about it. The botched heist took place on Feb 28 1997. The two shooters had body armor that the police guns couldn't penetrate and they had automatic arms that easily out powered the standard police hand guns and shotguns.

It was straight out of a scene from the 1995 crime drama 'Heat' starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Matter of fact, a copy of the movie was found in their VCR. The event was shown live from start to finish and lasted 44 minutes. Raw footage is available on youtube. This short documentary details the events and includes some dramatized and very graphic raw footage as well. BTW could a kind mod correct my spelling error in the title. Heist.

Bank shootout scene from the movie 'Heat' which inspired the robbers.



These guys (the actual robbers) robbed two other banks and two armored cars 2 years before this and got away with close to 2 million. Why on earth did they come back?

there was a movie made just about this i think it was called 44 mins
here is a link to the imdb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362389/

That would never happen today....

This shall be tonights viewing, Cheers Lou.

Yea i've seen that too. It's on youtube in full as well.

This shootout scene actually happened in real life.



One of the most astounding cases of physical stamina in history occurred on April 11, 1986, in Miami, FL, when the FBI cornered two career robbers, William Matix and Michael Platt. Matix was an ex-Army MP. Platt was ex-Army Special Forces. They were armed with a Ruger Mini-14 5.56mm, a shotgun, and two S&W .357 magnums.
The FBI outnumbered them 4 to 1, but still found itself outgunned as the agents fired 9mms. The FBI began the confrontation by ramming the suspects’ car into a tree. What followed prompted the FBI to change from the 9mm to .40 Sig. Platt fired across Matix’s body at McNeill and Mireles, two agents, hitting Mireles in the forearm. Matix then shot at Grogan and Dove, two more agents, with his .357. Grogan shot Matix in the right forearm. McNeill fired six shots, hitting Matix twice, in the head and neck, and knocking him unconscious.
Platt exited the car and was shot by Dove through the upper right arm. This 9mm round penetrated his right lung, collapsed it, and stopped less than two inches from his heart. His chest cavity filled with 1.3 liters of blood. Platt crossed over the hood of another car and was shot twice more by Dove, in the right thigh and left foot. He took cover by the car and fired his .357 at Risner and Orrantia, two more agents. He fired at Hanlon, Grogan, and Dove, and was hit a fourth time, breaking his forearm. He dropped his gun and was shot a fifth time, the bullet penetrating the right upper arm, armpit, torso, and stopping below the shoulderblade.
Platt shot back, wounding Orrantia and hitting McNeill in the neck, incapacitating him. Dove’s pistol was shot and destroyed. Hanlon fired and was hit in the hand. Platt charged Grogan and Dove’s car, though wounded in the leg, foot, and twice in the chest, and shot Grogan dead through the chest, shot Hanlon in the groin, and killed Dove with two rounds to the head. As he entered their car to get away, Mireles fired five times from a pump shotgun with only one hand, hitting Platt in both feet.
Matix regained consciouness and joined Platt in the car. Mireles fired four more times, hitting neither. Platt attempted to start the car as two police officers arrived. Mireles staggered up to the car and fired six rounds from his .357. The first two missed. The third, fourth, and fifth hit Matix in the face, shattering his cheeks, jawbone, and spinal column. The sixth penetrated Platt’s chest to the spine.
The fight lasted 4 minutes and saw 145 shots fired. 2 agents and the 2 suspects were killed. Only one man, Ronald Risner, emerged unharmed. Neither suspect had any drugs in his system, according to autopsies. Matix was shot 6 times. Platt was shot 12 times. Their feat has been attributed to nothing more than adrenaline and fearlessness.