Over the past couple of months we've been inundated with dash cam videos from Eastern Europe. While we expect folks in the former Soviet Union would have a need to protect themselves against fraud, we would like to think that we have nothing to worry about here in Canada. Sadly, as this video shows, that is not the case.

Our hero was traveling on Ontario's busy Highway 401, in stop and go traffic, when the Acura in front of him began to roll backwards into him. In the ensuing conversation, the Acura driver asked for $500 cash to repair the damage to his bumper. We'll let the original poster tell his tale:

What happened at the end? Well, he called the cops because he thought that installing dash camera is illegal and told me I'm not allowed to do so. Obviously it's LEGAL! He also warned me not to hide the cam until the OPP arrives SURE y not! The OPP arrived and copied down all of our info but I told him I have footage that can prove everything. He refused to look at it because this is a minor accident. I showed the RAW footage to my insurance company and I'm 0% at fault.


As it was a minor incident, the Ontario Provincial Police had no interest in investigating the video further. The moral here is that motorists had best protect themselves, because our town may not be called "Toronto the good" for too much longer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZJjDLnZ5ZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcGAKqANOzE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TQN8B8Jb9k

Well done

looks like a great defense - as you say, lacking evidence like this it's automatically assumed that a rear-end shunt is the fault of the car behind.

Props

This news was so hot recently in Toronto. The video went viral and the scammer's information was leaked to the public.

http://www.thestar.com/news/crim ... e-not-what-it-seems

the news article is pretty informative on the aftermath

These cameras that are built into cars are quite popular these days in showing who was at fault in an accident. Local media stations and newspapers love them. Last time that on taxi driver was beat up by Makio's Japanese Boyfriend it happened to also be caught on tape as there was a car nearby that had one of these cameras in their car that caught quite a bit of the action on tape. This was great for the poor taxi driver that got beat up but bad for Makio and her boyfriend who are now looking at jail time.