Dash cams what are your thoughts on this

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(01-27-2019 )Chamberpains Wrote:  A little off subject but just for everyone's awareness. Don't let anyone up on your running boards when parked.

A few years back in Brooklyn NYC I was street delivering hardwood flooring. A guy came walking by my truck and the 1st thing he did was start saying he knew me then he jumped up on the passenger side running board. I instantly started putting the window up on his face. He kept talking and saying he knew me and that I was rude for putting the window up on him. He got down and walked to the drivers side and tried to jump up on my running board. I locked the doors and put the window up most of the way and told him he's gonna get hurt real bad if he jumped on my running board. He stormed off yelling at me called me everything in the book.

The whole point of this story was that he came out of nowhere and never took his eyes off my dash camera. I'm positive he was going to reach in a snatch it real quick if I had left the window down far enough. He probably thought it was a GPS unit. Because of this incident, i now carry an extra camera in the cab that does not record very much of my movements in the seat but will capture images from behind me facing the windshield. This camera is not easily seen or found and neither is the hard drive it DL's to. It's my extra security for when I'm not in the truck or for when the prementioned shenanigans come up.

I carry a Glock, and a Garmin 55 camera... And I did take a brother for a ride on my sideboard, back in the day up in Newark NJ, by the airport... These guys would jump on the sideboard and try to direct you down a street to rob you of your cargo. Oh, the guy on the sideboard, I almost got him with the tandems as I was hammering it on to I-95. Yes, I can be an asshole, and stupid, but in this case, the Glock was not a deterrent. This was back in the early 90's when it was a real freak show out here, drivers getting shot on fuel islands and at docks, it was not a good time to be a driver without self defense.

And I was a bit younger and loaded with testosterone. Today I would just shoot em.

Kidding, but maybe not.