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Do you want to know how crazy living in Russia is? Weird # happens so often that people drive around with dash cams just to capture it. We can't even fathom what it it'd be like to see so many freak occurrences that we'd be confident enough that we'd see something else to go out and buy the technology to capture it. Like, "Oh man, I just saw a tank burst onto the road but didn't have a camera. I'll be more prepared next time. While we try and make sense of wacky Russia, you go ahead and watch the 25 Craziest Russian Dash GIFs.
TorqueyThePig
Minus the tank and maybe a few others, I see stuff like that all the time as a police officer in America.
You would be amazed at the things you see when your driving around for 12 hours a day.
mikeone718
reply to post by jhn7537
Insurance fraud capital of the world.
It's why so many of them have dash cams. Russian neighborhoods in brooklyn are sort of like this.
dainoyfb
reply to post by jhn7537
The article is hyping it up. There has been many articles about how the cameras are so popular there because of the amount of insurance fraud. I think we would catch stuff like that here too if dashcams were in use as much. I know we would see a lot more cases of police corruption.
parad0x122
Lol, I never would've thought getting smoked by a car could be remotely considered mundane. But in Russia, cars don't hit you. You hit cars.
Mamatus
I can explain the nuttiness with one word. VODKA!
tothetenthpower
reply to post by jhn7537
Most insurance companies in Russia require you do that a dash cam.as part of the policy. This is because if you are hurt and make an insurance claim in Russia, they pay out immediately and investigate afterwards whether you actually qualified.
~Tenth