{"id":32529,"date":"2013-02-15T09:39:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/russians-dash-cams-and-meteor-strikes.html"},"modified":"2013-02-22T15:47:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T22:47:41","slug":"russians-dash-cams-and-meteor-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/russians-dash-cams-and-meteor-strikes.html","title":{"rendered":"Russians, dash cams, and meteor strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Margie's first thought was that the dash cam footage she was seeing of the Russian meteor strikes was from cops. Turns out, though, that a lot of Russians have dash cams in their own cars — mostly to protect them from<\/i> cops.\u00a0(via +<\/span>Scott M. Baron<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\/\u00a0http:\/\/www.youareatree.com\/?p=1287<\/a>)<\/div>\n

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Why So Many Russians Have Dash Cams–And Why They Caught a Meteor<\/a>
\n Almost a million Russian drivers have dashboard cams. At least two of them caught video of a 10-ton meteor crashing to earth.\n <\/p>\n

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Margie's first thought was that the dash cam footage she was seeing of the Russian meteor strikes was from cops. Turns out, though, that a lot of Russians have dash cams in their own cars — mostly to protect them from cops.\u00a0(via +Scott M. Baron\u00a0\/\u00a0http:\/\/www.youareatree.com\/?p=1287) Why So Many Russians Have Dash Cams–And Why They Caught … Continue reading “Russians, dash cams, and meteor strikes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129584,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/when-police-accountability-is-in-the-hands-of-unaccountable-police.html","url_meta":{"origin":32529,"position":0},"title":"When police accountability is in the hands of unaccountable police","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 31-Jan-16 12:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, dash cams are really valuable in confirming whether or not police have behaved appropriately. 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