Just when you thought the impossible could and would never happen, it does.

The news crews from two separate San Francisco television stations were robbed at gunpoint by three masked men during a live taping of a news piece about the shooting of a tourist at Pier 14 in the Bay Area metropolis.

The video above doesn’t show the masked men or the actual robbery, however, KTVU reporter Cara Liu can be heard saying, “Hold on, hold on, wait…”, which is apparently when the masked men jumped out of their BMW and began pistol whipping KNTV camera operator Alan Waples. The robbers made off with two television cameras and two tripods; all of this happening at the pier along the Embarcadero at 6 am.

-Sha Be Allah(@KingPenStatus)