..'44 MINUTES' = N. Hollyood Bank Shootout TV Movie

6/1/2003 | ALOHA RONNIE

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET

...Six years ago our Hero LAPD Officers saved a North Hollywood neighborhood from further harm during a Terrorist Bank Robbery Shootout that resulted in the Deaths of the 2 heavily armed Shooters...

...after ..44 Minutes.. of nothing but combat that was as real as anything seen during the Vietnam War.

.."44 MINUTES".. airs tonight at 8pm PDT on the Special Effects Cable TV Movie Channel ..'Fx'.. dramatizing the Event.

...The same Civil Rights Attorney STEPHAN YAGMAN, who sued the U.S. Government on behalf of the Al Qaeda Prisoners at our Guantamino Base in Cuba after the Attacks on US on September 11, 2001, also sued these life-saving LAPD Officers on behalf of one of the North Hollywood Bank Shooters who died on the scene.

...Att. STEPHAN YAGMAN, who has been suspended twice from practicing Law in New York and California for his stealing from his clients, also has his own Farm in CASTRO's Communist Cuba, by his own public admission immediately following his being suspended from practicing Law for a 2nd Time, this time in California.

...I wonder if .."44 MINUTES".. will be sharing this with us on National TV..?

Signed:..ALOHA RONNIE / Vet-North Hollywood Bank Shootout Anniversary on Scene Ceremonies honoring our Lifesaving LAPD and LAFD Heroes

NEVER FORGET

[killjoy]

watched it,kept wondering why it took the SWAT team to figure out they should shoot the SOB in the legs and feet. But I applaud the LAPD some brave men for sure!

Why didn't they just take a vehicle and run them over? That would have put a quick end to it. The police were not thinking on their feet.

[The KG9 Kid]

I lived only a few miles south at the time of the North Hollywood bank robbery, and had been a customer of B&B Sales on several occasions.

They did loan the police a few AR-15s (Bushmaster clones, I think) as well as a .458 Remington Magnum.

[Dead Dog]

Apparently they didn't use the .458 RM.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...In combat you secure the Area first while treating your wounded in order to SURVIVE and save the Lives of your "Friendlies."

...The ones with the AK-47's that dark morning of the North Hollywood Bank Shootout were not "Friendlies" and there were more Enemy possibly lurking around out there ..and THIS WAS COMBAT.

...Thus the delay in getting Medical Aid to a wounded Shooter. (Apparently Atty. STEPHAN YAGMAN didn't care about any LAPD "Friendlies" ...as he quickly sued them instead)

...The morning after the Bank Shootout then KCBS-TV (Now KTLA-TV) Reporter BILL SMITH interviewed a witness, appearing on TV as a shadow only, who saw 2 others outside helping the Shooters put on with their protective gear just before the Robbery. At least one Shooter helper was a woman.

...No follow thru came on this TV interview from the Media or from LAPD Homicide Investigators.

T'is a Pity..?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET


1) The Shootout Scenes we saw in what I thought was a well told and scarey TV Story in '44 MINUTES,' as incomplete as it was, were not filmed on the Story's actual Shootout locations.

2) The Actual Shootout Scene on Laural Canyon Blvd had the Shooters controlling everything from the Bank of America's North Parking Lot ...holding the LAPD at bay in a hail of automatic weapons fire ...across the Blvd and a neighborhood side street, thus no Police Car ramming attempts were ever made.

3) L.A.'s Police "Scanner Lady" MARY LOU HOLTE was the on who called in the "Shots Fired" Shootout Call into L.A.'s Media, which brought in the TV Helicopters.

4) The Dentist across the street from the Bank was a true hero who braved withering AK-47 Fire to come down from his 2nd story office to rescue wounded LAPD Officers cringing at the botton of exposed stairway. (Not depicted in '44 MINUTES') This Dentist is a real sweetheart of a man.


Signed:..ALOHA RONNIE / Vet-N.H. Bank Shootout Anniversary Ceremonies ..ON SCENE.


NEVER FORGET

[ArmstedFragg]

I lived only a few miles south at the time of the North Hollywood bank robbery, and had been a customer of B&B Sales on several occasions.

Then I'm sure you noticed that a significant number of their customers were police officers... which makes the gratuitousness of the "I can't believe they sell these to just anybody" line even more obvious, huh?

I immediately thought, "well, there's our sermon for the evening".

Darn near everybody in the old 15th division was in B&B at one time or another.

[supercat]

How timely...as the AWB is due to sunset.... hmmmmmm It took 12 posts for someone to figure this out!?

[The KG9 Kid]

Cops loved B&B Sales. Several of the guys that worked there part-time were LAPD or LASO. Same went for the Orange County location, which I think was the better store.

B&B Sales was magnificent. The customer service wasn't so hot, but it depended on which guy you got assigned in the 'Take A Number' drill.

In the mid to late 1980s, B&B was like a wonderland.

The good old days are gone. I remember B&B Sales, the inventory at Martin Retting's in Culver City, and the LA County 'Crossroads of the West' gun shows at the Pomona Fairgrounds.

Dang, now I'm misting up. What melancholy. :(

[ALOHA RONNIE]

.."44 MINUTES".. re-airs Thursday...

...at 8pm on the Fx Cable TV Channel

[Yaelle]

That morning was very special to me. Exactly when the shootout was occurring, I was a few miles to the south giving birth to my second son.

I thought it was so weird that the same news account seemed to be on all the hospital TVs for hours. Only later did I find out what had been going on; I was too out of it at the time. I saw the show and noted an old college friend in the part of the gun salesman.

[nunya bidness]

Without a viable Manchurian Candidate this will do in a pinch.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Thanks for sharing your Shootout

...KODAK MINUTES with us.

More KODAK MINUTES =


...Just 2 weeeks before the North Hollywood Bank Shootout in February 1997 the 2 Shooters came into my Steamship Company Auto Lot to pick up a car they had shipped in from Hawaii.

...They were just smoldering when they had to wait their turn to be processed out with their car like everybody else, and it was busy.

...My job as the Supervisor there was to neutralize what to me was an obviously potential threat to US with these 2 Customers. T'was then that my experience being a Santa Claus for 1,000's at Christmastime came in real handy.

...I got up real close and personal with them, treating them with the warmth and cheerfulness of a Santa Claus, while frequently checking on how the Process was going on ahead of them and then updating them. It at least kept them begrudingly still, in line.

...After about 22 MINUTES they were gone with their Car after which I turned to my unaware Staff and told them that in all my 3 decades there ..if anyone was capable of going out into the trunk of their car and bringing Machine Guns back in on US ..it was these 2 Angry Customers.

...The rest is History and...

..."44 MINUTES"

All this I will NEVER FORGET.

[Travis McGee]

With 280,000,000 citizens, you don't even need a Manchurian Candidate. Random variability will do.

[reagandemocrat]

Yagman lost.

RD

[Future Snake Eater]

Sorry to be the greedy one, but I don't suppose the store owner was ever compensated for the use of his merchandise?

[shdwhawk]

I was the young guy handing the CAR-15 and AR-15 rifles to the actors. The director and producers were actually better about anti-gun remarks and fewer attempts to portray them. However this doesn't apply to shows like CSI MIAMI who recently filmed at Martin B. Rettings in 2002. Those bastards actually thought they could get away with putting a confederate flag on the wall. I promptly let them know too take it down now! They did with grumbles of course. It never stops amazing how anti-gun people are. People just seem willing to believe anything that’s told to them, its not that they question it, they want it to be true. When was the last time a gun law was past in California, and at the same time a brief on gun crime statistics? NEVER.

-Jon Retting