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Hey everyone! It's been a while AGAIN, and trust me, it's not for lack of seeing any bad drivers! I've probably got 2 or 3 dozen clips I could share, but my trusty old Toshiba laptop where they resided has given up the ghost. One of these days I'll pull out the hard drive and salvage them and maybe even share them.

You may have also noticed, my cheapie dash cam had developed a nebula towards the right side. I finally broke down and bought a new rig, which also features a rear view cam. If you're in the market for a dash cam, thus far I would recommend this one, by Zero Edge.

So here's the first clips that actually utilize both cameras! This driver either misses getting into the left turn lane, or doesn't know that's where they are going, and what do they do? Stop in the middle of the traffic lane, of course! I don't know, but I think they may have come to a full stop and waited there if I hadn't been honking. Epilogue caught on the back camera (not great at night, but good enough), they do a half U-turn to get where they really wanted to go, and are blocking cars coming from the other direction as they back up in traffic at the end of this video.

My Windshield!

Driving home from work over the weekend going North on the 710 when this unfortunate event occurred. Keep your eyes on the right lane, you'll see some debris coming across, then bouncing up. While I was driving, I saw a glint to that side lining up with the Jeep's tailpipe, and of course there's a loud bang. I thought it was a backfire, and it was at least 5 minutes later before I realized my windshield was broken!

Here's a few stills of the piece coming up. Looked like a disk in the first couple of shots, then it looks cylindrical, then like a flat rectangle.

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People who don't signal. There's a lot of them out there, and you just have to do your best to try and figure out what they're going to do. So, when you see someone following behind someone else who's turning to the right, then they brake and head off to the right, too, I usually figure they're going to the right. Well, take nothing for granted. Could be they usually drive a semi, where they need to swing to the right before going left! I was trying to get out from behind said slow moving vehicles, and damn near creamed them! Another instance where if there were audio, you'd hear me laying on my horn. I'm pretty sure they had no idea where they were going, because they pulled into the driveway, and then stopped there. I'd bet it wasn't the first time, too, because their back bumper was all banged up, and there's a dent on the trunk lid.

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This driver gets in the lane that picks up for the 60 freeway... then decides he didn't really want to be there, and comes into my lane without looking! You'll notice I waited until the lane they had vacated was completely established before I even got in that lane. If there were audio, you'd hear me on my horn the whole time they are drifting back, but they don't register the fact that they are changing lanes having not checked to see if there is room to do so safely!

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One of the quickest and easiest way I take to get home takes me by General Hospital. That is where this clip is from, and this is not an isolated incident. I don't know if it's because this is a low rent hospital or the caliber of the workers there or what, but it's a magnet for bad drivers! I would suspect this driver is employed there, what with his $60,000+ Mercedes and indifferent demeanor. He rolls right through a stop sign in front of oncoming traffic (must be in a big hurry or something) then goes REALLY slow (decided he wasn't in such a big hurry after all). If I were the upper management at this hospital, I would cross reference this plate and find the employee connected with it and drug and alcohol test them, as well as inventory the prescription narcotics that they have access to!

Runner!

I wish this was a better video, as it is you have to look REALLY close, probably on full screen and more than once to make it out. I hesitated to even put this up because it's near impossible to see, but it's there, just after the sign and just before the overpass. At around the 3 second mark, a pedestrian runs from the right side across three traffic lanes, the two on the interchange and the one on the ramp to the left. It looks a bit like he may be continuing on across the two additional freeway lanes after that, too (and I can't see why he wouldn't be doing just that, there's really nothing on the island he's ended up on!!!) In fact, that's about the clearest you see him, standing on the island at the very end of the clip!

I'm considering trying to find a better quality dashcam...

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A short little clip. The fuzz comes to a full stop in the middle of the lane for no apparent reason. Random.

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I've made mention here before about being in the lane you need to be in in advance. For your viewing here is a prime example of how not to do just that! Coming from the other direction in this clip, you'll see in the right lane of the two that continue straight a car that obviously should have been in the right turn lane. They block that lane for the full duration of the green light coming that direction. At the end of the clip, I added on where I was behind them and you can clearly see the obligatory "USC Alumnus" plate frame!