To scream like a little girl when something you're fully aware of, that is behind glass, gets tossed around by the windshield wipers you turned on yourself...that's just fucking sad. How could he not know? It was fucking visible the entire clip. It was the only reason for the clip...

It has nothing to do with how much or little I live. I would say it has more to do with exceedingly bad amateur writing for this script. About as believable as blankfist suddenly turning into Mother Theresa.

Windshield vipers....

Well they were calmer than I would have been.
..and nice windshield wipers.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'cat, car' to 'cat, car, hood, windshield wipers, SURPRISE' - edited by xxovercastxx

@ant - I don't understand. Do you assign channels incorrectly as a joke? It seems like it's something you have always done and always continue to do, but is it honestly just for laughs?

Did you really assign this to "Water" because there are drops of water on the windshield? People visit the Water channel to view content that's actually about water and not just any random video in which something wet might appear somewhere on the screen.

Channel assignments are not supposed to be like a Where's Waldo where you're searching and guessing to figure out why a video's in a channel. Channels are supposed to offer categorization for people who are interested in viewing specific and meaningful content on a particular subject.

Your video, Very Advanced Russian Windshield Wiper Technology, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

It that snow on the windshield? Why is this woman wearing shorts?

OMG nostalgia! I lived not even 20 minutes from there when I was a kid. I almost got killed in the parking lot there on the 4th of July once when a firework exploded right after launch and sent fiery fragments out into the crowd (one of them smashed the windshield of the car next to me). I also remember totally wanting to go on the Cannonball loop but my parents wouldn't let me (in hindsight probably a good decision on their part).

Motorworld there was awesome--it was across the street from Action Park and I think run by the same people. They had these cage-enclosed go-karts tanks equipped with compressed-air tennis ball cannons and sensors that stopped the tanks temporarily if they got hit by a tennis ball. You could pay to drive the tanks around inside an enclosed arena or you could also shoot at the tanks from the outside of the arena using air-cannon turrets that required quarters to operate. Tons of fun.

Mostly, though, I went to the water park, which according to Wikipedia had the most casualties. I got a fair amount of scrapes from the waterslides and I can totally see how people could get seriously injured on some of them.

"....Alice's Adventures Through The Windshield Glass" and "The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot."

Uh, whereas I can't see it turn red, I can definitely tell that it's no longer green.

Within the first 6 seconds of the video, look at the light pole above the "W" and watch the light there closely. At the 6 second mark it goes off, meaning that's the green light. You can safely assume that it's gone to yellow at that point, and it takes a solid 3-4 seconds for that truck to even reach the intersection once the green light has gone off.

Based on the fact that the light turns green in our direction less than a second before he's out of the intersection I'd assume that the light was red. And, people seem to be forgetting that dash cams capture very little of the full view of your windshield, the cop would EASILY have seen what colour the light was at the time.

There was probably debris on the windshield that we couldn't see

what was with the windshield wipers... please tell me the driver is not so stupid that she/he hit them instead of the turn signal? Anyways... /russian dash cam goodness

Good thing they have a windshield wiper.

I would rather hit a bear than a deer any day. Deer tend to come up through the windshield for a kiss.

This may run long, so bear with me.

Law Enforcement employees tend to come from two specific groups of people. The first group is going to consist of people who actually joined up to try to protect people and make things safer for them. They are idealists who may grow jaded over time; because realistically if your only input on what being a LEO is the internet and reality TV, you are not prepared for the type of mental assault you will endure day in and day out. I'm not talking about angry people, but stuff like drawing circles around little chunks of brains on the highway from a teenage girl that went through a windshield.

As an officer at any level (except maybe a small town), you are going to see the absolute worst side of humanity on a daily basis and you aren't on a tour of duty like the military. You don't get to 'rotate' home and put it behind you. This will wear on anybody who is not a sociopath, it will grind you down to a nub. You could see professional help for this, but I will go into that later.

The second type of person who goes into law enforcement is someone who likes authority, a sense of power over someone else, a bully. This person is in the job because it gives them power over others and the law will protect them because it is vaguely worded in SO many cases. This person will shrug off the effects that cripple the first type over time, because they feel in charge of every situation. After a while, if they don't tone it down, they will get caught. Thankfully the cell camera and the internet tends to be helping clean them out due to their own incapability to see they can't ALWAYS be in charge, but it will be a long road because this group is the BULK of the ones that join LE organizations.

Now why do these two groups tend to be the ones that you are going to run into on a consistent basis? The simple, hard answer is that we pay our front line LEO's very little compared to other services that risk their life or experience the mental grind. Your average patrol officer is going to pull a median salary of about 35k with comparable benefits to someone working in a office job. A firefighter is going to pull around 45k and scales up much quicker, not to mention their benefits are beyond good. EMT's make about the same as patrol officers, but their benefits are also very good and they don't have the same stressors. I know that ranges will vary and State LEO's are very well paid on average, but we are talking about the people you are going to encounter most often.

If you have to choose between a job where you are going to be considered a 'hero' or a job where everyone is going to be biased towards you being a 'villain, and the hero jobs pay better, which would you logically choose? Assuming of course that you are not sorted into one of the two groups I described, most are going to run away from serving in LE. In fact, this is why more of the 'bullies' tend towards LE and the 'idealists' don't. So you already have created a situation where the 'stormtrooper' mindset is going to prefer this job and haven't considered options to rectify it. The people you don't run into that much are going to be the people that took college and got pushed through the ranks quickly. If you didn't take college or just took an Associates Degree, you have to beat these people out. It is extremely hard to do that, even if you do your job much better than they did.

The final factor that runs into this is the mental issues I mentioned earlier. If you seek help from your employers for mental stress, they are going to handle it differently if you are a LEO. You are going to find out quickly that you are expendable. If you seek help and get classified as PTSD, you set a chain of events in motion that is inexorable. You will be rotated to a desk. You will see a Psychiatrist who will prescribe anti-depressant or anti-anxiety medication. This person will meet with you for around 15 minutes 3-4 times a week, ask you questions, and ask if the medication is helping. If you return to functional status in a month or two, you get put back on duty. If you don't, they put you on short term disability for up to one year. Your visits drop to once a week, then once a month. One year later, your employment is terminated. They hire a new recruit and start the cycle again about the same time that you start your short term disability. You get to try to salvage your career in anyway possible, hopefully you paid through the nose for long term disability, or you can try to find a smaller department that doesn't bother to dig too deep on background checks.

Other related fields like firefighters/emts comprehend PTSD and work with their people much harder. They have better benefits so you they can see outside therapists as much as needed. There is less stigma if you have a problem, because they understand. You go on the fritz as an LEO and you will overhear people who used to respect you call you weak or a pussy. Sadly this type of thing happens at all levels of LE, even as a State Trooper you are expendable.

In any case, the point to this essay is that the system is flawed and is going to drive out the good LEOs and save the bad ones to protect itself from litigation. Protect yourself at all times with video, be advised of the laws and loopholes in them that bad LEos will exploit, and don't force confrontation with a LEO if there is a loophole. If the man had stepped outside and talked calmly, the incident would not have escalated as it did. In this case he did not inform himself of the loopholes correctly and got tasered (which was improper, they didn't warn him correctly or anything), and the LEOs look like villains again.