Cyclist held up at gunpoint, videotapes incident | GrindTV

Cyclist Alex Hennessy is accosted by a robber at gunpoint in Argentina. Photo is a screen grab from the video

Mike Graziano and Alex Hennessy are attempting to visit 195 countries in 60 months and are chronicling the adventure in videos posted on YouTube. “I believe people are good everywhere,” Graziano says in Episode 1. “It doesn’t matter which country they’re from. So I’ve got to go see if that’s true.”

Well, that wasn’t exactly true in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Hennessy was accosted at gunpoint while riding a bike through a rough area of the city. Naturally, the film school graduate caught the entire episode on video and posted it Tuesday on their YouTube Channel, Global Degree TV.

“While it’s not our proudest footage, it certainly is jaw-dropping,” they wrote on Facebook. “Watch Alexander Hennessy get robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight during a bike tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina.”

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