Some quite baffling dashcam footage has emerged on social media, showing what is described as “roadside madness” in the video’s caption. The clip involves a Chevrolet pickup truck seemingly intent on brake-checking the dashcam vehicle as it tries to change lanes.
The footage, shared on the r/dashcams subreddit, begins normally, when a pickup truck suddenly appears on the left of the dashcam car. It suddenly decides that, rather than play nice, it wants to swerve into the lane on its right and shove its way in front of the dashcam vehicle. That meant the car we were on board with had to slam on its brakes.
If that wasn’t bad enough, the truck then proceeded to slam its own brakes to brake-check the dashcam vehicle. The vehicles appear to be going through traffic, and the dashcam vehicle then tries to get away from the truck by going into the next lane on the right.
The truck driver, though, had other ideas. It also moves over, further slamming the brakes. Clearly, the driver is determined to annoy the car behind it as much as possible. When he gets out to confront the dashcam car, however, karma quickly came back to bite him.
The Pickup Truck Was Driving Aggressively
Sadly, the dashcam doesn’t include any audio, such as honking horns or reactions from the dashcam car. But it is clear from the footage that the truck is driving very aggressively. The truck swerves right in front of us, even though there is more space for it to move forward and not risk an accident.
The driver of the dashcam car clearly wanted to get away, hence the move to the right-hand lane. Yet for some reason, the pickup truck decided to block them off, and they moved at the same time. We can imagine horn honking going on at this point, and that is likely what annoyed the driver of the truck, turning this event into road rage. What the dashcam driver probably didn’t expect was for the truck driver to step out of his Chevrolet.
Clearly riled up, the truck driver steps out of the Chevrolet and walks over to our vehicle. But karma hit him pretty quickly. A second later, a police officer appears, having watched the whole thing unfold right in front of him. He duly tells the man to get back to his truck before any form of confrontation can take place between him and the car he has cut off twice. The driver of the car the video was filmed from was probably enjoying the spectacle in front of him, as were Reddit users.
Reddit Users Loved the “Instant Karma”
Naturally, whoever was watching the video loved watching the truck driver get pulled over. “Instant karma,” said the top comment, which summed up the clip beautifully. “What do you think the truck’s driver said? Well, he started it?” joked another user in response to the top comment. Even if you could apportion some blame to the other driver, they weren’t the one being cut off twice or getting out of their vehicle to confront the other driver.
“Yep, you can see him point the finger at the other car: ‘ Well, he did bla bla bla first; no fair!!,” said another Reddit user. Another comment simply read “Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha,” which really does sum it up. It was lucky and convenient for the dashcam car that a cop was right behind to see what the pickup driver was doing.