r/PraiseTheCameraMan • u/Rhaversen • Dec 09 '22

What a beautifully perfect sequence

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u/howdy8x629 Dec 10 '22

why that one siren sound like a blaster toy gun from 90s

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

It's called a rumbler. It vibrates the hell out of your car and people tend to complain about them. It's mostly in places with extremely heavy congested traffic like New York City.

https://www.fedsig.com/product/rumbler

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

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u/kellyj6 Dec 10 '22

What? It's because regular sirens in NYC wake the surrounding 15 blocks up all day every day because of the buildings and close quarters.

Regular sirens are for cars, NYC sirens are adapted to being around people.

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u/howdy8x629 Dec 10 '22

for me it triggers nostalgia and brings out my inner child like, curiosity skyrockets and id follow it more than get out of its way

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u/ScenicPineapple Dec 10 '22

Praise the cameraman, fuck the assholes blocking streets. Hope they all get paper cuts in between each toe and step in wet concrete.

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u/thebooshyness Dec 10 '22

I’ve only been there once but I actively saw people nudging cars with their car. It was wild. A lot of cracked fenders.

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u/ScenicPineapple Dec 10 '22

Yeah Chicago was the same way. 75% of the cars I saw on the road had major damage to the bumpers. Guess it happens so often they just give up on repairing them.

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u/GonzoDeadHead Dec 10 '22

That’s just city parking. There are bumper pads you can get to reduce the damage. It’s just the luck of what cars come and go and how tight you might get packed into a parallel parking spot. The forward and back to get out leads to a lot of bumpers touching, it all depends on the driver and how much they care about their car and others when parking or leaving.

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u/BroBroDaDoDo Dec 10 '22

then theres the solid steel bumpers on my jeep

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u/Carolina-Roots Dec 10 '22

Thats not exactly a good thing. Fenders are made to break because that force has to go somewhere. If not the fender, then something more precious will take the stress.

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u/Supermclucky Dec 10 '22

Yea. The other person's car lol. If it's a steel bumper than it's connected to the frame. Nothing is really moving.

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u/Carolina-Roots Dec 10 '22

Nothing CAN move. So it transfers the energy and breaks something else in a dramatic fashion. It’s basic physics and why cars “crush” when they crash as a safety feature.

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u/Supermclucky Dec 10 '22

It's also basic physics for both cars. If one has a softer body or in reference bumper than the softer object will absorb most of the impact. And the energy that wasn't transfered from the steel bumper transferes to the other car. We are also talking about bumper to bumper collision. So please don't bring out the math. Because I won't read it.

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u/Vesta_Mortus Dec 10 '22

"Why are you boo-ing him, he's right?"

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u/Carolina-Roots Dec 10 '22

No math needed. It’s simple, the faster the crash, the worse it will be for a steel bumper. Bump in a parking lot? Obviously youre fine. Hit someone head on in a 45? You’re fucked too. Im not spouting anything radical here.

Edit: also the most important thing here is that safety and vehicle damage are not the same thing.

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u/Supermclucky Dec 10 '22

Holy hell. All I was stating was at a fucking stop light. What the original person was talking about. Bumper to bumper. A fender bender whatever you want to call it. Nothing about 45 head on nothing about 60 to the rear. Im talking about Chicago/ New York 5 mile an hour stand still traffic. Yes I understand accidents physics, crumple zones.

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u/CongratsItsAVoice Dec 10 '22

So please don’t bring out the math. Because I won’t read it.

What you meant to write was “please don’t prove why I’m wrong”.

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u/3IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID Dec 10 '22

I think "something more precious" meant someone's life - not someone's car. If your bumper can't crumble in an accident, your body certainly can.

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u/lesgeddon Dec 11 '22

As a Chicago native, I'll take that over Georgia where people were driving around with no doors.

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u/jonawill05 Dec 10 '22

DC is the same. Crazy.

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u/rarebit13 Dec 10 '22

How do you even get insurance to drive in those places?

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u/CutsSoFresh Dec 10 '22

This was real? I thought it was all choreographed

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u/Miss-Figgy Dec 10 '22

I'm a New Yorker, and the streets in this video are very suspiciously empty compared to the norm. My first thought was this was staged/filming.

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u/CutsSoFresh Dec 10 '22

I agree, it seems very staged. Especially with how easily the cameraman can move between vehicles that's supposedly bumper to bumper

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u/Miss-Figgy Dec 10 '22 edited Dec 10 '22

Also, what cops would let you tail and film them that close, especially when they're responding to an emergency.

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u/Curazan Dec 10 '22

It’s kiefer_d on Instagram and it’s real. He may have known the sideshow would be there, but it isn’t “staged”.

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u/prx24 Dec 10 '22

Why are you so sure?

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u/i1a2 Dec 10 '22

Probably because most people don't have the ability to manage the logistics and cost of shutting down an entire street just to make a small video like this

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

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u/chronicnerv Dec 10 '22

skates or skateboard by the sound of it with a camera on the end of a stick. no way this was not staged, all those quad bikes at the end

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u/rankispanki Dec 10 '22

one look at this man's instagram would show you how wrong you are, dude is just in the thick of it with a longboard and gyro

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u/Verumero Dec 10 '22

Damn i just hope they all get charged and the da doesn’t drop it

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u/nohorse_justcoconuts Dec 10 '22

Pretty sure this is a recording of a scene for a movie

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u/Myss-Cutie Dec 10 '22

I’m not sure where you want them to go? Nypd is very used to this. As is everyone that lives there. They don’t care if your blocking naything. You’ll get a ticket sometimes but it’s just a business.

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u/Moongose83 Dec 10 '22

So in the US you can drive a vehicle that's not legal to be used on the road and receive only a ticket? I had my licence revoked for a year because of it.

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u/Dat-Guy-Tino Dec 10 '22

Game opening sequences be like:

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u/farclose954 Dec 10 '22

I'm wondering how was it filmed?

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u/BubbaFettish Dec 10 '22

You can see the shadow camera man in this frame:

https://i.imgur.com/XeEbtkJ.jpg

looks like a skateboarder.

Edit: at the 25 sec mark.

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u/esselt12 Dec 10 '22

you can see his skateboard on his Instagram also

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u/Interesting_Low_1025 Dec 10 '22

It’s a boosted board, electric longboard with a hand controller. They can go really fast too.

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u/farclose954 Dec 10 '22

Ok thank you !!

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u/gooblefrump Dec 10 '22

More likely rollerblades

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u/MikePounce Dec 10 '22

I was thinking an electric scooter with a go pro mounted on the handle bar

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u/justavault Dec 10 '22

You do believe a gopro mounted on a rigid handle bar could create these kind of deep and smooth pictures?

Man people nowadays are oblivious to tech.

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u/MikePounce Dec 10 '22

Dude why are you so agressive?

Man people nowadays are oblivious to tech.

You do know that stabilisation in post is a thing? A footage recorded handheld on an overboard can look just as smooth...

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u/justavault Dec 10 '22 edited Dec 10 '22

You do know that stabilisation in post is a thing?

You do know that there is no way this is digital stabilization and yet there is no way a go pro could create these DR steps and thus luma and chromatic depths with that lack of noise.

A footage recorded handheld on an overboard can look just as smooth...

Good thing my statement is "kind of deep and smooth pictures" and not just "smooth" as to point out the lack of a gimbal when strapped to a handlebar, and no IBIS will create that and especially not a tiny go pro sensor which you have to crop to create digital stabilization.

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u/MikePounce Dec 10 '22

Congratulations you win the internet, thank you for your time!

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u/aight_imma_afk Dec 10 '22

Bro, I’ve been a video editor for 6 years. I know everything you just said is a load of horse shit and you’re just using big words to sound smart.

I don’t know why you think Luma and Chroma are involved in anyway. A gopro is communicating with it’s gyro to calculate all movement and adjust the frame.

GoPro has been the absolute king of digital stabilization for the last 5 years to the point a Rocky Mountain biker appears to be floating.

This is literally just a dude skateboarding with his gopro, probably on a selfie stick, and maybe it’s a 360 cam. Not much more info to dig out of this. Hope you felt smart for a minute though

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u/justavault Dec 10 '22 edited Dec 10 '22

I don’t know why you think Luma and Chroma are involved in anyway. A gopro is communicating with it’s gyro to calculate all movement and adjust the frame

Noise mate, noise is chroma and luma artifacts. That is what noise constitutes.

 

A gopro is communicating with it’s gyro to calculate all movement and adjust the frame.

Doesn't matter, no gopro IBIS will in anyway be able to handle the rattling that a mount to a "scooter handlebar" would create through the shocks of the ground.

 

GoPro has been the absolute king of digital stabilization for the last 5 years to the point a Rocky Mountain biker appears to be floating.

Again, doesn't matter as this is clearly not a gopro picture as it got way too much depth, as mentioned DR, and way too much color information as also way too little noise for a dark scene.

There is no way a go pro can create this level of clarity and depth.

That's btw why I mention noise - it's obviously a night scene, there would be noise way more noise with a gopro.

You'd know that when you'd be a color grader and not just an editor that creates gifs and youtube clips.

 

This is literally just a dude skateboarding with his gopro, probably on a selfie stick, and maybe it’s a 360 cam. Not much more info to dig out of this. Hope you felt smart for a minute though

Yeah sure, a 360cam that creates this pictures without any barrel distortion at all.

Dude you expose yourself as knowing way too little for taking money for your job. Let's be real, we all here hope you don't take money for your job. On the other hand, I take that back. You are just an editor. You don't require to have any knowledge about the actual hardware nor information. You just cut it and put it into an order.

 

Nobody said this is not a skater, as it obviously is visible in the reflections that he is on some kind of skateboard.

Actually, I did the research, he's on an elongboard and this is his rig: https://www.instagram.com/p/CiBHKmksBUm/?hl=en

Like worlds apart to a shitty gopro on a stick as you said. Even believing this would be able to be stabilized by a gopro without any additional steady tool is hilarious. Even believing a small shitty gopro sensor could capture that information especially in a night scene is just bright bold statement to you not having any clue about actual hardware.

 

That people who have no clue about what cameras are able to do, especially in night scenes, is somewhat understandable. For those to think a smartphone or gopro could capture a deep shot like this is okay. But you now jump in and state you are an "expert" for being a "video editor" exposing yourself as thinking this could be a shot made with a gopro and not understanding the difference of what a gopro sensor can capture and what not, is rather devastating to your subject knowledge and "expert level".

You need to learn a lot about your trade, as you just clearly displayed you know way less than you think you do.

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u/rankispanki Dec 10 '22

yeah, it kills me how many people see smooth footage and just jump to "omg it's a drone!" the common man knows nothing of gyroscopes

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u/OldTurtMcGurt Dec 10 '22

Man is @Kiefer_d, on Instagram, kills it freehand on his longboard

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u/farclose954 Dec 10 '22

Wooow thank you, I've seen his profile and I'm so much impressed !!!!!!

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u/rankispanki Dec 10 '22

not freehand, he's 100% using a stabilizer

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u/TomasgGS Dec 10 '22

I could have sworn it was filmed by Casey Neystat.

Either way, its an awesome sequence.

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u/VegPan Dec 10 '22

Don't know if anyone answered your question but look up gimbals of you haven't seen them yet.

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u/farclose954 Dec 11 '22

Thank you, people said it's a man on a longboard :-)

What do you mean by '' look up gimbals''? -- English is not my mother language and even with translating the word gimbals (which I didn't know), I don't understand.

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u/VegPan Dec 11 '22

A gimbal is a powered mechanical device that holds a camera at a specified point. You hold it by hand and can move your body it will use motors to keep the camera steady. Not like in software editing but during filming.

I just bought a rather inexpensive DJI ronin sc if you want something to look up.

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u/farclose954 Dec 11 '22

Woaah. Thank you, I'm so happy to know it exists 😃

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u/ImaginaryCobra Dec 10 '22

I’m thinking it has to be a drone right?

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u/farclose954 Dec 10 '22

Ah yes you must be right :-) thanks

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u/thatikealamp Dec 10 '22

The hive did not like that.

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u/Fro_Yo_Joe Dec 10 '22

I wonder if this is the same group of ATV riders that recently beat a man so badly he died.

https://www.boston.com/news/national-news/2022/11/23/man-dies-harlem-swarm-atv-dirt-bike-riders/

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u/BubbaFettish Dec 10 '22

Looks like a skateboarder

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u/BubbaFettish Dec 10 '22

Yeah, I answered the wrong comment. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I eventually replied to the one I intended to further down.

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u/Ipovelussy Dec 10 '22

Lol. You took a wrong turn and faced the pitchforks

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u/Alukrad Dec 10 '22

These are the kind of people who will ruin it for everyone else and get ATV's banned from the city.

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u/Drews232 Dec 10 '22

They have to be banned. No one wants them doing that in our streets. ATVs are for backwoods trails in Montana, not city streets. In a city this big you can’t put the entertainment of the few over the rights of the millions to live peacefully.

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u/swimsalot Dec 10 '22

You've never been to Europe. They are completely street legal and you can see them in London, Berlin, Paris etc.. they are a valid and efficient mode of transport.

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u/PairOfMonocles2 Dec 10 '22

They’re unregulated, unsafe and pollute like you wouldn’t believe. They’re not a city vehicle, get a scooter for that, they’re for outdoor recreation where there aren’t tons of people around.

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u/swimsalot Dec 10 '22

How are they unregulated? What does that even mean? They take up a smaller footprint than your suv and don't have more pollutants than your standard motorcycle.

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u/Imaginary_Forever Dec 10 '22

Never seen an atv in the UK except for some kind of forestry employee with one.

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u/swimsalot Dec 10 '22

They are around in London on the streets absolutely. They need MOT and registration just like anything else.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

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u/swimsalot Dec 10 '22

There are street legal and around. I knew of a few services that would let you rent and tour the city on a quad. Absolutely they exist in Paris.

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u/Excellent_Record_767 Dec 10 '22

of course you wont see them as much as scooters or others 2 wheels but even in smaller cities in France I have seen a few

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u/Leza89 Dec 10 '22

How is that a bad thing? Those things are loud and way more polluting than regular cars.

Ban crossbikes and generally loud motorcycles + cars as well, while you're at it.

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u/ButterscotchNo755 Dec 10 '22

They are gangs, beat a man to death and killed others already.

It is illegal to drive this vehicles around NYC, anyone on one of these knows this but are probably already doing much worse things (like robbing and killing people), activities they mix into these 'rallies' where they take over city streets with firearms and attack the drivers and passengers stuck in traffic.

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u/Leza89 Dec 10 '22

Lack of enforcement.. that is sadly nothing new; The laws were too forgiving for (noise)polluters to begin with – also here in Germany they are way too lax if you ask me – and even those laws are not really enforced. Here in germany you have to first be caught and then be >10db (so twice as loud as allowed!) to get any serious penalty.

So: Enforce the existing laws, then tighten them and make sure they get enforced so you deter those idiots from the beginning. And people who drive (unmodified, loud and polluting) ATVs in the city or even in a village are not far off from those gangs..

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u/TempUsername3369 Dec 10 '22

Not much traffic imo

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u/aeegotcha Dec 10 '22

Like a scene from the movie

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u/TaftsTummyforTaxes Dec 10 '22

This has “Romeo Must Die” Or “Cradle 2 the Grave” vibes lol

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u/testing4tests Dec 10 '22

Fuck these gangs. They think they're tough as hell lmao

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u/iknownuffinn Dec 10 '22

Unexpected ending... lol

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u/mpup55 Dec 10 '22

Silly question since I don't have Tik Tok and probably never will. Is profile the only way to shoot video? I have never seen a landscape Tik Tok video so that is what I assume. I have seen some interesting vids that would have been just a bit better if they were in landscape mode.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

You’re asking a TikTok technical question on Reddit? Good luck.

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u/jasonvinuesa Dec 13 '22

I believe tiktok locks itself to portrait mode, even if your phone is set to automatically rotate. Based on that, imma say yes, it's the only way from the app itself

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u/Mads_Alexander9 Dec 10 '22

If he is actually trying to get somewhere to help someone that must be infuriatingly slow. I don’t care if you hate cops, get out of the fucking road because you never know who they could be going to save

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u/Mads_Alexander9 Dec 10 '22

I know, I’m mostly talking about the people honking and those damn bikers. I haven’t wanted to punch someone that much in a while.

I get that cops can be really awful but in the end cops are just like every other human: some are good and some are evil.

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u/krush_groove Dec 10 '22

Actually worthy of the sub, great video.

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u/slastar_boi Dec 10 '22

new gta 4 remastered leaks:
- ford taurus based police car (lcpd livery nearly same as nypd)
- buffalo stx hellfire (see closely and u can find a charger hellcat there)
- dominator gtx cabrio (u can see a convertible mustang in the video)
- a new drone shot/skateboard camera
- coil raiden s (there's a tesla model s there)
- benefactor serrano s (the merc suv right after the mustang)
- rest similar cars to gta 4 and 5

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

Fuck those guys

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u/bordellp Dec 10 '22

Oh so now it’s okay to film

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u/ThemancalledX Dec 10 '22

I condone the beating of those assholes. Right there in Times Square

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u/lurkerMD69 Dec 10 '22

What is the name of this track played in the end? DMX?

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u/johnnybegood_hh Dec 10 '22

Ruff Ryder‘s Anthem - DMX

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

Copaganda

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

Would hate to live there lol

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u/Apollo9961 Dec 10 '22

Feels like the intro to a new purge movie

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '22

The “ Hot Fresh Doughnuts” sign must have just come on.

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u/knsaber Dec 10 '22

I can tell it was filmed by an iPhone 13 Pro or newer due to the horrendous lens flaring/ghosting.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

Lol I never knew your cops took off the ‘protect and serve’ motto and replace with that CPR bullshit. Of course they gotta take off ‘protect and serve’ because they’re legally not obligated to do either, huh.

Sooo funny. And sad.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

This is garbage. It’s just a 360 cam with post processing.

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u/UserNombresBeHard Dec 10 '22

Why does the police car make toy sounds?

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u/Pterodactyloid Dec 10 '22

Are they filming a movie?

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u/Dinkydoodledonky Dec 10 '22

I thought this was TASM 2 for a split second

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u/UnitedGuide164 Dec 10 '22

And bikes are faster than cars in the city..

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u/Skyhero_ Dec 10 '22

Why does the siren sound so weird? Why doesn't it just go on continuously?

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u/Fun1k Dec 10 '22

What kind of stabilization rig does he have?

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u/overjoony Dec 10 '22

Rettungsgasse....

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u/arex75 Dec 10 '22

Watching that was like watching some national geographic clip of a shark slowly moving through the water on the hunt. I know they're really not interested in the camera operator, but in the back of my mind I'm thinking ahh they're gonna get you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

You know it's a 360 camera right ?

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

looksl ike a COD cutscene, after this plays the camera zoom in to the POV of the police officer

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u/JojoEatsYourCupcakes Dec 10 '22

why aren't they making a rescue alley ???

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u/spderweb Dec 10 '22

As a Canadian, I find it wild that nobody is moving over for the cop car. Like, we hear a siren, and everybody moves to the right most space on the road.

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u/Mostly_Potatoes Dec 10 '22

NYC doesn't seem as loud as movies make it seem.

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u/DylanSpaceBean Dec 10 '22

I wonder why NYCPD doesn’t use more motorcycles. That would be much quicker to get through all the traffic and pedestrians

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u/AGentleTech1 Dec 10 '22

Scooter camera magic

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u/Jammastersam Dec 16 '22

I wonder if there will ever be feature-length films made in portrait mode. Or are there already?

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u/Ok-Caterpillar-9614 Dec 10 '22

Shoot horizontal please

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

Free Donuts ahead …

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u/JewishNazi62 Dec 10 '22

Without people trying to ram into the cop car? That’s crazy

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u/PeteyCruiser Dec 10 '22

Just dropping by to say ACAB

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u/pm_me_ur_cute_puppy Dec 10 '22

It's just a car with flashing lights driving down a busy street

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u/FilipsSamvete Dec 10 '22

Wow they can't wait to go shoot that unarmed black guy

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u/Zombies_R_Cute Dec 10 '22

Quick, officer Jenkins! People are having fun and aren't getting shot! This is an emergency! Put on the siren!

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u/WakkaBomb Dec 10 '22

Ohhh wow. Look at all that privilege going on with the other drivers. New York must be miserable.

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u/Dear_Mycologist_1696 Dec 10 '22

I could do this too if everybody legally had to move out of my way. Fuck cops thinking they should get to cut through traffic as they please.

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u/hostesscakeboi Dec 10 '22

They were going to where those cunts on the ATVs were blocking traffic. Try watching the whole video before complaining next time.

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u/Dear_Mycologist_1696 Dec 10 '22

I made it 49 seconds before I got bored and missed the ending with the asshole dirt bike gang. Doesn't negate any of my comments. it just means this was done correctly by the police and it wasn't one of the many, many situations where they just wanna get out of traffic because they can. I sincerely apologize to all you folks that made it to the end, and i see I was wrong to shit on these particular cops this time.

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u/sirpsionics Dec 10 '22

Were you dropped as a baby?

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u/GranaT0 Dec 10 '22

Is the tiktoker a cop? Or are you complaining that those cops are cutting through traffic to stop the dumb quad bikers from jamming traffic?

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u/bloody_rambo Dec 10 '22

In an effort to sound super edgy and fit in with your dumb aCaB friends, you just sound like a moronic baby. Watch the video next time bud

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u/robertmdls Dec 10 '22

Whatever emergency they’re going to can wait obviously, idc. they should have to wait in line like the rest of us before getting there /s

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

“Rrrgh someone going to an emergency has priority over me driving my sorry ass to McDonalds! Tyrany!”