It
a car side door camera
captures a silver car coming to a stop,
near a highway on ramp.
inside that car are two real estate photographers
with nearly $7,000 worth of camera equipment in the back.
What they don't know,
is that this black sedan has been following them
since they left their shoot.
As the traffic moves forward,
the silver car is now seen on the same vehicle's dash cam
and the black sedan once again pulls up close to its rear,
the driver of the car recording,
who wishes to remain anonymous
notices the black car,
but doesn't think too much of it.
>>[Anonymous Driver] I see this black car
coming along my side
and I thought it was just kind trying to cut into traffic.
So, I was like, okay, well I'll let it through.
You know, I give him some space
and then I see him cut in front of me as expected.
>>What happens next is anything but expected.
a man in a hooded sweatshirt gets out of the black car,
punches through the rear window of the silver car
and grabs a bag full of camera equipment from the trunk.
>>It was actually dead silent
The only thing you could hear was the glass breaking,
nobody screamed, nobody said a word,
and then I see him take the bag and I'm shocked
and then I see him speed off.
>>The photographers, Ben Bergeron and his wife,
are also shocked and very confused.
>>Now I hear the biggest smash in the back windshield
and the first thing that came in my mind was,
someone rear-ended our car,
but I looked back
and I saw a hand trying to steal my camera bag.
I didn't even know,
you know from which direction they escape.
>>[Anonymous Driver] You know,
I was 50/50 on stomping my accelerator
and chasing the black Honda Accord,
but I thought to myself,
"Well, they might be armed,
so, this seems kinda like a dumb idea,
and my life is exciting enough."
So, I chose not to follow them.
>>Though he doesn't follow
he does find a way to help.
>>[Anonymous Driver] I flag the victims over,
I told them,
"Hey, I got footage."
>>He says, his dash cam recorded whole thing,
even the license plate,
so, we exchanged our phone number.
>>They share the video with the police
and tell them
they believe they noticed the suspects
watching them earlier.
>>My wife saw them in front of the house
that we were shooting
and she believes that they targeted us
from in front of the house.
>>Despite the video evidence,
as of this broadcast
the suspects have not been found,
but the story does have a silver lining.
>>[Anonymous Driver] So the night of,
I pulled the video from my hard drive,
I Tweeted what happened,
I woke up the next day
with, I think, 5,000 retweets, 10,000 likes
and I was like, "Wow, this is pretty crazy."
But after it went viral
a bunch of TV stations started airing it
and one of the TV stations set up a GoFundMe,
for the camera equipment that was stolen,
'cause it was very expensive, thousands of dollars.
>>The fundraising helps Ben and his wife
replace their stolen equipment,
all thanks to a good Samaritan,
who captured the startling incident,
on his dash cam.
>>He's a kind person
and he did take the risk to pull over
and help me to share my story.
>>[Anonymous Driver] They were extremely nice.
Ben and his wife took me and my business partner to dinner
and they even did some corporate head shots for me,
so I got some professional pictures done by them
all as kind of a generous thank you.