A few posts back I mentioned that a benefit of having a dashcam is you can post your interesting clips for internet points. There are plenty of YouTube channels dedicated to compiling such footage, and I feel I'm a better and more defensive driver having watched very many of them over the years.
One of the best channels, IMO, is Dashcam Owners Australia (or DCOA for short). It does take a bit to get used to them driving on the wrong side of the road, but it's worth the effort if only for the silly accent and the creative swears. I used to be a fan of a particular Russia-based channel, because the snowy antics were super fun to watch, but once Ukraine was invaded I had to give it up.
Every year for April Fools' Day, DCOA does a special compilation for people who have submitted clips when they really shouldn't have. Many are utterly technology inept and do things like record the two-inch screen of their dashcam with their phone and send that video in instead of pulling the footage off the dashcam's memory card.
However, it's the apparently insane people who have no concept of right vs. wrong that I want to highlight in particular. These folks will do something completely bananas, consider themselves the victim or otherwise in the right, and then submit their clip looking for confirmation and sympathy. Some are incredibly egregious, and this year's April Fools special included possibly the worst offender of them all.
This embed links directly to the relevant part of the video, but the whole thing is worth a watch. At the linked timestamp, a guy is cut off by another doing a highly illegal maneuver, which is certainly frustrating, but then proceeds to follow the guy, speed limits be damned, through neighborhoods like he's Chase from Paw Patrol going after Mayor Humdinger's fentanyl plug, breaking countless other laws in the process.
Sheesh, guy. Sheesh. The clip blew my mind a bit, so I had to leave a comment on the video replying to someone else's and make a post here to reproduce them both since I'd just talked about dashcams a few days prior.
I'm kind of impressed in the towering self-confidence and complete lack of doubt or introspection that these people have to send in videos of themselves breaking multiple laws.
It's frightening. The guy at 9:46 gets into a long high-speed chase through a residential area because a guy slightly inconvenienced him and thinks he's in the right.
In the moment maybe I can understand a few seconds of being pissed at the trailer-puller guy for his stupid maneuver. Nobody's perfect and sometimes emotions are powerful. But the cammer chases the guy for several minutes, gets the footage off his camera, rewatches it, edits it (poorly since we don't even get to hear his argument), and submits it ⸺ never once remotely considering that maybe he was in the wrong.
That's some 70-IQ behavior, and that guy's just out there every day ready to ruin people's lives over some petty bullshit.
For everyone's sake and safety, don't be like the guy at 9:45. He's lucky he didn't crash into a tree, another vehicle, or some kid chasing a lost ball into the road. If you are like that guy, instantly seeing red at the smallest slight, please do some introspective analysis on your behavior, grow beyond the emotional intelligence of a toddler, and do better.
And get some therapy. It's cheaper than the charges you'll eventually land if you continue to let rage control you.