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[Danny]

Had the dash cam running on my way home from work about an hour ago. Skip to 20 seconds in, i stop at the zebra crossing for a man and his dog and then become aware of an ambulance coming towards us, the man with the dog is also aware as he looks at it before i'm even stopped!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fRWyPIciP4

[Dishevelled Den]

What sort of unit is that Danny?

[Proz]

Looks good quality ... might invest in one of these aswell .
Which one do you have 

[Danny]

cheap chinese one off ebay, paid about £36 i think, plugs into the cig lighter and records onto SD so i have an 8gb card in it, and it chops the files every 5 minutes, overwrites the earliest file when it's full, and when its disconnected it'll continue to record for 20 more seconds

managed to witness a crash after i'd forgot to plug the damn thing in though!

[Proz]

cheap chinese one off ebay, paid about £36 i think, plugs into the cig lighter and records onto SD so i have an 8gb card in it, and it chops the files every 5 minutes, overwrites the earliest file when it's full, and when its disconnected it'll continue to record for 20 more seconds

managed to witness a crash after i'd forgot to plug the damn thing in though!

Do you have the egay sellers details ...?

[Danny]

my unit is this one, but mine's all black

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vehicle-Car-Mini-DVR-Camera-Cam-Video-Road-Recorder-h62-/280641089075?pt=UK_CCTV&hash=item4157832e33

the seller i bought mine from is http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/estore009 but they dont appear to do it anymore

There are alot available under £40 now, many have screens, i stayed away from screens as there's less to go wrong, and at £40 i'm not expecting 30 years use out of it

[Lazydocker]

That's a tidy little unit... I'd be tempted to hard wire it in if I had one though as I only use the cig lighter when I have to for the sat nav.

[Danny]

my cig lighter's always live when the car's off and although i've left it connected for a couple of hours by accident, i wouldnt chance it being on all the time, and i change my cars too often to have it hard wired

back to the vid though, what sort of idiot crosses the road when there's an ambulance coming!

[Lazydocker]

my cig lighter's always live when the car's off and although i've left it connected for a couple of hours by accident, i wouldnt chance it being on all the time, and i change my cars too often to have it hard wired

If I were to hard wire it I'd take a switched feed and run a wire around the windscreen/above the roof lining so that it was invisible and just popped out in the right place

back to the vid though, what sort of idiot crosses the road when there's an ambulance coming!

Indeed... Must have seen it, like you say, because he was trying to run across! You'd have thought that with a dog that's obviously curious and should be on a lead when walking in the street he would have thought twice

[Lizzie_Zoom]

my cig lighter's always live when the car's off and although i've left it connected for a couple of hours by accident, i wouldnt chance it being on all the time, and i change my cars too often to have it hard wired

If I were to hard wire it I'd take a switched feed and run a wire around the windscreen/above the roof lining so that it was invisible and just popped out in the right place

back to the vid though, what sort of idiot crosses the road when there's an ambulance coming!

Indeed... Must have seen it, like you say, because he was trying to run across! You'd have thought that with a dog that's obviously curious and should be on a lead when walking in the street he would have thought twice

Yep that was the problem, and could have been an even bigger one!  Some dog owners are so stupid and do not seem to understand how dangerous an untethered dog is next to a road!   Dohh!!

[Lazydocker]

my cig lighter's always live when the car's off and although i've left it connected for a couple of hours by accident, i wouldnt chance it being on all the time, and i change my cars too often to have it hard wired

If I were to hard wire it I'd take a switched feed and run a wire around the windscreen/above the roof lining so that it was invisible and just popped out in the right place

back to the vid though, what sort of idiot crosses the road when there's an ambulance coming!

Indeed... Must have seen it, like you say, because he was trying to run across! You'd have thought that with a dog that's obviously curious and should be on a lead when walking in the street he would have thought twice

Yep that was the problem, and could have been an even bigger one!  Some dog owners are so stupid and do not seem to understand how dangerous an untethered dog is next to a road!   Dohh!!

I'm a great believer in walking dogs "off lead" but only when they are trained to a suitable standard. I hope that our dog (when it comes) will be trained to standard where that is possible... I know of at least 2 friends with Labs trained to a standard that they can be walked everywhere "off lead" with no hesitation whatsoever

[Banjax]

I love OOF - dramatic footage of one man and his dog nearly getting splattered by 2 ton of ambulance up the jacksie and everyones like "nice camera" "wow good quality vid there" "where'd do you buy it the camera?"
 


ps - really good quality - i thought it was footage from a cop car 

[albitz]

Imo the owner needs tethering, rather than the dog.

[aaronjb]

I don't think well trained children should be allowed out without a leash on, let alone dogs.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I don't think well trained children should be allowed out without a leash on, let alone dogs.

Let alone some of the adults Aaron!!