Alex Hennessy, a film school grad from Vancouver, was travelling in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when an armed would-be thief tried to rob him.
Hennessy had a GoPro camera on his forehead at the time that captured the entire encounter on a video that has now gone viral.
The first-person video shows a Spanish-speaking man on a motorcycle attempting to stop Hennessy while he is riding his bike down a separated bike lane. Hennessy rides away and laughs off the encounter at first, apparently not understanding the man’s intentions.
But when the man catches up to Hennessy then pulls out a pistol, the traveller’s tone changes entirely.
“I don’t know what you’re saying man, I don’t know what you’re saying man,” says Hennessy, as the man continues to yell at him to drop his backpack (mochila in Spanish).
Hennessy drops his bike on the ground before running away from the scene and finding a police officer.
Hennessy is partway through an attempt to travel to every country in the world with his friend Mike Graziano over five years, according to the pair’s series of videos on YouTube.
