Photo: Facebook / Bryant Swenson
An American couple of CrossFit trainers currently living in Nairobi, Kenya, had a close brush with danger on a rural road – and they have their Toyota Land Cruiser for escaping unharmed.
Bryant Swenson posted video of the incident on his Facebook, as it was captured by his dashcam. He was in the car with his wife, Lauren, and they were traveling down a dirt road near Maai Mahiu.
At one point, they come across a white van. It’s moving slowly but this doesn’t raise the alarm with them, as they can be heard chatting along cheerfully. That’s when 3 masked men rush from behind the van towards their car – they’re all carrying machetes and one of them has a gun in his waistband.
“We came upon 3 bandits robbing a matatu. I had to back up long enough to roll my window up before passing by the guy weilding the ponga (machete.) The guy on the far left had a handgun, but couldn't get it out of his waistbelt in time,” Bryant writes.
You can see him back the Toyota and then speed off, just as you hear the machetes make contact with the car. At the end of the video, there’s the sound of gunshots in the distance: police were following them and they intercepted the bandits.
Bryant says God and his trusted Land Cruiser helped him out of this tough pickle.
“They chose this spot for ambush because the road is very rough, but fortunately we were in my 80 series Also thankful for a manual transmission…,” he writes in the caption to the video. “Just before encountering the bandits, we passed two armed police on foot. The gunfire you hear at the end of the video are the cops engaging. We are thankful to have been gone before the gun battle erupted.”
The Swensons are in Nairobi to open a CrossFit center. With the video of the chilling encounter having gone viral, Bryant uses the opportunity to plug his new business endeavor, but he also includes a warning to other drivers who may find themselves in similar situations: #justdrive.
At one point, they come across a white van. It’s moving slowly but this doesn’t raise the alarm with them, as they can be heard chatting along cheerfully. That’s when 3 masked men rush from behind the van towards their car – they’re all carrying machetes and one of them has a gun in his waistband.
“We came upon 3 bandits robbing a matatu. I had to back up long enough to roll my window up before passing by the guy weilding the ponga (machete.) The guy on the far left had a handgun, but couldn't get it out of his waistbelt in time,” Bryant writes.
You can see him back the Toyota and then speed off, just as you hear the machetes make contact with the car. At the end of the video, there’s the sound of gunshots in the distance: police were following them and they intercepted the bandits.
Bryant says God and his trusted Land Cruiser helped him out of this tough pickle.
“They chose this spot for ambush because the road is very rough, but fortunately we were in my 80 series Also thankful for a manual transmission…,” he writes in the caption to the video. “Just before encountering the bandits, we passed two armed police on foot. The gunfire you hear at the end of the video are the cops engaging. We are thankful to have been gone before the gun battle erupted.”
The Swensons are in Nairobi to open a CrossFit center. With the video of the chilling encounter having gone viral, Bryant uses the opportunity to plug his new business endeavor, but he also includes a warning to other drivers who may find themselves in similar situations: #justdrive.
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