Strange behavior

25 January 2014, 14:50

vashper

quote:
Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
we live in vastly different worlds...

You are partly right, but some not. There are a huge number of similar or even more strange videos taken most likely in the United States. I don't post them here, because it may seem offensive. And Darwin award winners, mainly Americans.
In Russia, for some reason very fond of DVRs, and motorization of the country occurred later than in the US, so the quality of the driving and road conditions are much worse, and is relatively more road accidents. Therefore videos of incidents in Russia - a lot. But personally I've never seen or done something similar to what you see in YouTube, although I live in Central Russia, in the largest city in Europe. Although there is - in my childhood I also jumped in the deep snow from a fairly high buildings. Until I got a slap in the face by my own knee.
By the way, I get no less pleasure from the comments to my posts, than those who read them (I hope).

26 January 2014, 22:24

Allan DeGroot

But hands down the best dash-cam video of car crashes is always from Russia

it's all about the prevalence of dash cams

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26 January 2014, 23:06

vashper

I'm not disagreeing with that. Although mortality on the roads in many countries is also quite high: if in Russia 184 death per million population, in the USA, for example -
109. The figures are quite comparable. In Eastern Europe, slightly lower than in Russia, in Western - much less about 40. But in Eastern Europe DVRs is a very popular hobby. A couple of years ago I was driving a camper, and suddenly, from the curb across the road ran a horse with two irresponsible passengers. I managed to brake in the meter from the cart. In the cabin behind me a lady pulled the door. When they learned that I was not installed DVR, they almost killed me

Sometimes accidents aren't terrible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ture=player_embedded

27 January 2014, 00:06

JBrown

quote:
Originally posted by vashper:

Sometimes accidents aren't terrible :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ture=player_embedded

The horse might not agree.

I laughed very hard....

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27 January 2014, 06:33

Allan DeGroot

Well I understand WHY Russia has so many dash cams

It's to combat insurance fraud.

28 January 2014, 00:37

Brice

There is not the slightest doubt that vashper contributes mightily to the variety of the humor forum.

28 January 2014, 23:51

vashper

quote:
Originally posted by Allan DeGroot:
Well I understand WHY Russia has so many dash cams

It's to combat insurance fraud.

News:
"Russian cosmonauts installed camcorders outside the ISS "