A Chicago television news crew reporting on a string of robberies ended up robbed themselves after they were accosted at gunpoint by three armed men wearing ski masks.
Spanish-language station Univision Chicago said a reporter and photographer were filming just before 5 a.m. Monday in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood when three masked men brandishing firearms robbed them, taking their television camera and other items.
“They were approached with guns and robbed. Mainly it was personal items, and they took a camera,” Luis Godinez, vice president of news at Univision Chicago, told the Chicago Tribune.
That’s why I only shoot with a Sony handycam.
When I worked in news a few years ago, there were small and cheaper digital cameras which would do just as good a job as our huge ones, but the huge ones looked more ‘professional’ so we used those instead. And carrying them around sucks.