Crazy Russian Con Artist Throw Themselves In Front Of Moving Cars

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You will find so many Russian dash-cam videos on the web that you'd think 99% of most traffic accidents happen in the Federation or that Russian people are particularly passionate about video blogging every second they spend driving around. But actually, one of many main reasons dash-cams are so popular in Russia  is the high number of individuals willingly throwing themselves in
front of moving vehicles to exploit a weird law that obliges the driver to fund damages regardless of if they are responsible or not.
According to an Al Jazeera report from this past year, most people use dash-cams mainly to fully capture any instances where in actuality the corrupt policemen abuse their power for financial gains, and utilize the footage in court.
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One other and more bizarre reason is to protect themselves against crazy scammers that may throw themselves facing cars and hustle the drivers for large sums of money by threatening to call the authorities. Most scammers will hop on to the hoods of slow moving vehicles to make certain they don't really get run over, but as you can see in most video compilation , accidents have happened.
People who lack the courage to jump facing cars, simply pretend to get hit by vehicles while holding old laptops or cell phones and ask for compensation. Drivers wanting to convince the judges they certainly were the actual victims without solid evidence usually fail and are forced to cover damages, so dash-cams are becoming the only sure means of protection.