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Gentleman facebutts police dashboard

Rob Beschizza at 9:49 am Tue, Jul 17, 2012

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Seen enough video of auto insurance fraudsters being exposed by front-facing dashboard cameras? One fellow in Russia thought up a clever way to get the police in trouble, but didn't count for the fact that dashcams can be turned around. [Video Link]

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  • http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy

    I wonder if poorly equipped police like these are more or less likely to engage the public with force as opposed to dialogue, all else being equal. 

    They don’t have a cage, so is their captive less an animal to them than police with a cage?

    • Antinous / Moderator

      I was in the back of a squad car ~8 years ago when I offered to go with the police to track down a hit and run driver who fled his vehicle.  You really are locked in a nasty, airtight isolation booth.  It’s not hard to figure out why they smell like piss and shit.

  • DreamboatSkanky

    Ouch.

  • http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

    In Soviet Russia … something something something YOU ! ! !

    • Antinous / Moderator

      In Soviet Russia, board dashes you.

  • Boundegar

    I’m disappointed the cop stopped him.  Shoulda let him wale away for a while, and then pointed out the camera.

    Does this make me a bad person?

  • Petzl

    Appears he had recently seen “Fight Club.”

  • Fogbert

    Could be that some Metalica came on the radio and he couldn’t help himself.

  • grimc

    100 quatloos for a translation

  • deejayqueue

    …or that they record audio.  I can only imagine the dialog was something like “Oh yeah? Well how are you going to explain to your superiors the big gash on my forehead?” WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM!

  • Mr. Winka

    Crazy Ivan.

    • http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith

       Hence the reversed instrumentation.

  • http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

    Seems like the kind of guy we’d still lock up if we had a justice system that was about justice… scary dude.

  • http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith

    And he didn’t notice the cop adjusting the camera?