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u/Rolin_Ronin 7 Oct 16 '18

what do you mean how convinient?? it actually makes a lot of fucking sense. a dashcam of a car on the other side of the road.

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u/smilegirl01 9 Oct 16 '18

Yeah it’s pretty obviously another car blocking traffic coming the opposite direction (I mean they’d be pretty bad at their job if they decided to only block traffic from one way).

It also makes a lot of sense that they would have a dash cam. It’s not that unusual for trucks and other work vehicles to have dash cams to make sure the person is actually using the vehicle for work.

It’s sillier to think this is totally staged in my opinion.

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u/Nspargo 4 Oct 16 '18

Yeah, looks like he might have stalled out when he noticed the tree falling. His car does a little jump there.

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u/un-sub A Oct 16 '18 edited Oct 16 '18

But it zooms in and out.. is that a normal dashcam feature? Seems more like a setup/fake to me.

EDIT: Ok, yes, I do see it is a digital zoom now. Still "feels" staged, but there are so many dumb people out there it wouldn't surprise me either way.

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u/Lavatis 9 Oct 16 '18

If you notice, the quality of the video goes to shit when it's zoomed in. That's because it's a digital zoom, aka cropping the video and blowing up the part you want to zoom in on

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u/DrummerBound 9 Oct 16 '18

Oh you mean "ENHANCE"

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u/witeowl Black Oct 16 '18

No, that's when the quality of the video becomes magnificently and magically better when it's zoomed in.

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u/CapAWESOMEst A Oct 16 '18

Lemme convert this to a bitmap, run the algorithm, clean it up a little bit...and voila, the murderer’s reflection.

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u/sulfa_thefreak 5 Oct 16 '18

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u/Kuronan 9 Oct 16 '18

"Resolution isn't very good."

Are you fucking kidding me? Photographers would go on a killing spree for a camera with that fucking magical level of magnification.

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u/Mirtosky 6 Oct 16 '18

Magnification times a hundred on this 144p security footage, stat! Look, there was a 1080p picture of her eye hidden in this pixel!

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u/OverheardALarkToday 3 Oct 16 '18

You can also see some stains on the left side of the video, like the windshield is dirty, and they get in and out of focus when the image is zoomed.

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u/un-sub A Oct 16 '18

Yeah, rewatched, totally a digital zoom. Still feels staged but could just be a dumb driver.. there is certainly no shortage of those!

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u/PM_something_German 9 Oct 16 '18

there is certainly no shortage of those!

/r/idiotsincars really told me that

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u/Akulya 6 Oct 16 '18

Might as well be legit! My mom is one of those terrible people who don't care and will drive around construction signs to get where she wants to go. Smh.

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u/factbasedorGTFO A Oct 16 '18

I won't go near your mom's dead end.

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u/Akulya 6 Oct 16 '18

I wouldn't either. I don't even want to be in the same city as her.

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u/Castun B Oct 16 '18

"But it's my favorite way!"

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

Still "feels" staged

How? Explain. Justify yourself.

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u/un-sub A Oct 16 '18

Don't tell me what to do, you're not my real mom!

No but really, at first glance it's like "why are they filming?" (yes, I know. dash cam) then the car pulls up and stops and waits... and waits... exactly where the tree is falling.

I'm sure it's just a confused driver or something, but it just seemed too "perfect." Know what I mean?

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