who knew

I thought it was easier than my hometown Chicago, which is pretty ridiculous in some spots. However, Panama City, Panama was too nutty for my taste. Seems India, Russia and S.E. Asia are the scariest places, from what I've seen.

Funny thing is, I live in a largely Puerto Rican neighborhood here, and the tempers and driving are just horrendous at times. A good PR friend of mine told me there are a few troublemakers, who just ruin it for all the rest of them. I found pretty much everyone down in PR itself really nice, and mostly the same in my neighborhood. There are idiots of all kinds here.

Unbelievable that no one got killed, I think even the dog survived.

I can not BELIEVE some of those people just got up or walked away. Theres some lucky motherfuckers in Russia.

I can't believe the person in that second to last crash climbed out of that car.

And he could not understand why people here are arrested for driving drunk. He said that cops there would just drive him home.

on black ice around here, so the people wrecking out and doing doughnuts aren't that impressive.

However, that biker at 2:30 is astonishing. He must've been the drunk one, he not only survived, he got up and he was ANGRY!

... would we have similar videos about the US?

In Russia, people use dashcams to deal with insurance claims and as some say, it is nearly a requirement if you have a car, hence a popularity of close-call video collections.

The Russian traffic cops are corrupt and useless, and there are a lot of scammers out there doing slip-and-fall schemes and cut-you-off-and-brake scams designed to extort money from insurance companies. Hence the dashcams, and hence the dashcam videos.

An acquaintance of mine who visited a car manufacturing plant in Russia told me that "Little attention is paid to quality control there. Even new cars in Russia are like used cars."

And then there are those idiots who watch "rally" videos on Youtube and think they can do the same thing on regular Russian roads