One dark September night I was in London with 4 friends. We were in our hotel
room at 4:10 am and were looking outside at a bank where we knew what was going
to happen in 20 minutes.
Earlier in the day we had heard 6 people plan a robbery at the bank. We heard
them say that they were gonna meet up in the forest at 4:20 am and then they were
gonna take their guns out and rush the bank.
Just as I left my hotel room at 4:15 am my friends came with me and we were
ready to call the police on the gang. We were too scared to tell other people since
we had earlier seen that one of the gang members was right outside the bank
undercover smoking cigarettes and could listen to everything people said.
When I came back to the hotel room it was 4:20 am. We knew the gang had just
met up at the forest and were ready to rush. Little did they know that we had
exposed them and all their plans.
Later that night at 4:29 am we went down from the hotel room and were ready to
call the police in a minute. The clock turned 4:30 and we called the police. We could
see the gang rushing and they were doing everything in their power to steal as much
money from the bank as possible. They didn’t kill anyone but only threatened people,
so they were really not gonna do any serious harm other than breaking the bank
windows. We could see one of the gang members run towards us. We were quick
and went straight to the hotel so that he was locked outside. We went to the room.
Behind the mirror in the bathroom there were 5 loaded guns just laying there. We
were all confused as we did not hear anyone come into the room. We were scared.
We all took a gun so we could protect ourselves. We saw the gang member from
earlier in our hotel room try to jump out of an open window and we figured that he
must have jumped in our room from that window. We all took our guns and pointed
them at him. He had no chance as we were 5 people with a gun each and he was all
alone. He had a bag full of guns and we figured that the guns we found behind the
mirror were from that bag and he must have lost them accidentally. We tied the gang
member up to make sure he wouldn’t escape and do any more harm.
When the police arrived they were quick to catch all the gang members and make
most people at the crime scene calm. We thought it was all over but forgot that we
had that other gang member tied up. One of the police officers saw us in our hotel
room with our guns. They came up to us with a helicopter and thought that we tried
to help the criminals and they thought that the guy we tied up was innocent. We then
all got sent to prison for 8 years with no chance to defend ourselves and tell the
truth.
So I shall never pay London another visit if I can help it.