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Cameras and moving vehicles have always made for good television.
From camcorders during traffic accidents, plane crashes, cell phone cameras in a car,
and of course, dashcam footage.
Police dashcams are like a ride along made safe, where we can see the insane things police
officers face without strapping on a bulletproof vest.
I’ll take all the action from the comfort of my couch, thank you, and you, too, can
see the top 10 scary encounters caught by police dashcam from the comfort of your seat.
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10.
Roy Halladay’s Plane Perhaps the most famous crash on our list,
former MLB pitcher Roy Halladay died in this plane crash in November of 2017.
Toxicology reports discovered he had a toxic dose of amphetamines in his system, which
lends credence to the reasoning of the crash.
An amateur pilot, Halladay died when his Icon A5 light sport aircraft flew into the Gulf
of Mexico.
Eyewitness and video footage show his plane flying dangerously close to houses and the
water before climbing and descending into a nosedive towards the water.
9.
An Unexpected Stop In this political climate, we tend to think
about police stops as dangerous for a variety of reasons.
Have we forgotten why they were dangerous to begin with?
Generally, as a cop, the driver you’re pulling over has the potential to be dangerous.
He or she might be carrying drugs, weapons, children, they could even be under the influence
of something.
They could also be carrying, like in this video, a shotgun.
The driver who was pulled over was so upset by it, he actually jumped out of the car with
the shotgun in hand and fatally wounded the officer.
You can’t help but ask, why was he so scared?
What did he have in that car?
While the officer stays outside of our view, the scene is terrifying because we don’t
see everything, but we imagine the worst.
8.
Didn’t See That Coming Sometimes we see big city crimes, like heists
and break-ins.
Other times, we see a couple with a stolen riding lawnmower ride through their small
town at full-speed running red lights.
Regardless, a crime is a crime and a police officer must chase down whatever comes his
way.
Sure, some hardened criminals are going to be the most dangerous part of his day, but
some are going to inspire a facepalm like these two.
The teens were driving through the town on the wrong side of the road, skipping stop
signs, and eventually stoplights altogether.
Though, their luck would soon run out.
In the dashcam footage, we see them approach an intersection when a massive semi-truck
plows through their tiny vehicle like it’s made of legos.
Unfortunately, both driver and passenger were killed on impact.
7.
Speeding and Kidnapping Perhaps this clip is one of the reasons why
cops are so weird when they stop you for a traffic violation.
On the one hand, you could be an absent-minded driver, on the other, you could be a deranged
kidnapper.
Like here, when this group is stopped for a late night traffic violation and then caught
for beating and kidnapping a man and putting him into their trunk.
This could have gone unnoticed had the man not screamed out from the trunk, where the
officers found him moments later, bound and barely conscious.
This had been a result of a random strike by a group of people who stopped at a Circle
K where he worked, beat him and stuffed him in the trunk of their car.
Luckily, they were bad drivers, otherwise, the fate of the young man could have been
gruesome.
6.
Fake Police Officer - Real Dashcam There is so much about #6 that we don’t
understand, but what we do is really frightening.
See, the man handcuffing and frisking the other is just a civilian.
The man getting handcuffed thinks it’s a cop.
So let’s back up here for a second.
This is supposed to be a normal police stop, but one of these men is faking it.
First of all, how uncomfortable is it to watch someone getting frisked and handcuffed by
a man you know is secretly doing it for his own sick pleasure?
Second, what on earth happens after he’s placed in the back seat of the car?
Thirdly, and most importantly, he still has a dashcam!
Why?
Though nothing violent happens during this stop, understanding the context of the entire
exchange makes it terrifying.
This Tucson case was released but never totally explained, as the result of the encounter
remains a mystery.
5.
Fireball Now, let’s take a break from police stops,
frisking, and kidnappings to move on to cooler sightings.
This dashcam caught the strange moment when a New Jersey police officer drives by what
appears to be a fireball flying across the sky.
The streak is white and looks like a type of flying star, just way larger, closer, and
frankly, scarier.
Whatever it is, it didn’t go unnoticed, as other residents in the area reported having
seen it as well.
Perhaps it was a meteor passing by, maybe it was fireworks of some sort.. but, come
on.. we all know it's aliens.
4.
Marc Allen Benedict Have you ever been to a city whose planes
fly right over the highway on their way to the runway for landing?
This is similar, but much scarier.
See, this plane was not at all supposed to be flying this low.
It was amateur pilot, Marc Allen Benedict and passenger Gregory Guinee, who luckily,
were both uninjured in the crash.
The plane lost control above Keene Road, just south of Sunset Point Road in Largo, Florida.
Two cops catch the plane on dashcam, first as it descends dangerously close to them,
and then as it sits on the side of the road, wrecked.
Whether you were on the plane or just below, I imagine the entire thing would have turned
you white as a sheet.
3.
Tornado Up Close Natural disasters caught on tape are some
of the best entertainment.
As long as nobody is hurt on video, I can watch trees shake and destruction all day
long.
Whether it’s an earthquake, a hurricane, or as in this video, a huge tornado.
This dashcam video starts out relaxed as it faces a simple landscape in the plains of
the United States, surprisingly calm and quiet.
However, within a couple of turns, we see a tornado growing larger and larger as it
approaches the car.
This Oklahoma highway patroller must have found it very entertaining, as he sat in his
car watching the tornado instead of turning around to head the other way.
He backs up slowly, watching the storm take everything in its path.
He makes it out unharmed, but the dashcam continues to capture the destruction caused
by the tornado as he drives into town.
2.
Fire Lightning This time, the dashcam catches a normal, isolated
road as a police officer patrols it.
It feels a bit like those videos that make you squint into the screen just to get a fright,
but instead of a screaming ghoul face, we get something much more interesting.
Just a few seconds into the video, lightning comes down and actually seems to start a fire.
The officer pulls over after the shock to his eyes, and finds a still hot piece of cement,
hit by the bolt.
1.
Police Officer Down Finally, another reason to be incredibly careful
during a police stop.
This time, the police officer doesn’t have to worry about victims in the trunk, shotguns
pulled by the driver, or, at least for now, extraterrestrials.
This particular police officer was taken down by something he never saw coming, traffic.
As he approaches the car to speak to the driver he pulled over, another car approaches far
too close to his body and takes him down hard.
It’s difficult not to wince as your mind imagines the crunching noise his hip must
have made during that hit.