Romanian criminals attempt to steal goods from moving truck

[Video Link] Romania's Department for Organized Crime and Terrorism videotaped criminals in a car attempting to break into a moving truck. The criminals succeeded in opening the door to the truck, but they apparently didn't find anything inside to their liking and left empty-handed.

Romanian gang attempt to rob moving truck (Via Arbroath)

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Needs Waylon Jennings narration right before a DUKES OF HAZZARD commercial break. “Looks like those Duke boys have bit off more than they can chew. Y’all stay tuned, hear?”
Kylini

A couple of Nissan SR20′s would pull a premium one week before race wars.
http://twitter.com/qazwart David Weintraub

There’s something computer generated-ish about this video. Is this filmed at night with a night vision camera? If so, why don’t we see issues when other cars come into the scene with their lights on?
- http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
  
  Looks like (inverted) infrared to me.
ObstacleMan

I call shenanigans because the video starts before the crime.
Kieran Attrill

@twitter-64788837:disqus it looks like normal thermal to me with black as hot and white as cool, that’s why the headlights don’t affect the image.
http://twitter.com/michael_slater Michael Slater

Staged.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  How many people spontaneously try to rob moving trucks?
  - Uhclem
    
    Most of us at some point in our teen years I’d expect….
http://jdparadise.blogspot.com/ jp_in_nj

Jayne Cobb would have been in and out of that truck in half the time.
donovan acree

Why was a helicopter following a normal truck down the highway with an infrared camera?
howaboutthisdangit

Too bad the truck wasn’t full of loose bowling balls or watermelons.
http://twitter.com/chrisjimson chris jimson

There is probably a lot going on here that we are not seeing. The copter may have been following them for some time, either they witnessed suspicious behavior, or were acting on a tip.

However, it takes a certain desperation, or lack of regard for your own life, to climb on a moving car hood and try that. A little tap on the breaks and you’re a goner. (It does occur to me that they may have another car up ahead monitoring road conditions and radioing back, but you still can’t know what the truck driver will do at all times.)
http://anaraug.blogspot.com/ Walker Shurlds

I’ve dreamed about this for a while–not about this specifically, but about a technology that would make it easier. Basically a cruise control that you would set to “stay exactly forty feet behind the car in front of you” using whatever distance sensor. Of course set it to one foot and it would make this job easier.
bolamig

Onboard radar technology maintains a pre-set distance between the DRCC-equipped car and the car driving ahead of that car

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2010/10/23/dynamic-radar-cruise-control/