Top 10 Surveillance Videos of the Week: Car Plunges From Parking Garage
Other top surveillance videos of the week include the world’s dumbest criminals, a not-so-sneaky child and more.
In this week’s Top Surveillance Videos…
Cars falling off of parking garages is a more common occurrence than you may think. Google it and you’ll be surprised.
In fact, more than 9,000 pedestrians are injured or killed in parking lots and garages every year, according to the NHTSA.
While that may make this week’s featured video less surprising, it’s still no less shocking to watch.
Surveillance footage from an Austin, Texas parking garage shows the moment a car plunges seven stories onto a passing SUV.
Miraculously, the woman survived. The driver of the SUV suffered no injuries.
Police say the woman drove through retention wires on the seventh floor and hit a building across the street before plunging to the street below.
Last September, an SUV plunged from the ninth floor of the same parking garage.
Also this week…
How many dumb criminals does it take to steal a video doorbell? Apparently two.
You would think it is common sense that if you steal a camera, your face is going to be seen.
However that logic wasn’t enough to deter two criminals in Las Vegas.
Make sure to check out these videos, plus a vigilante cyclist, garage-intruding bear and more in this week’s top surveillance videos!
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Steven A. Karantzoulidis is the Web Editor for Security Sales & Integration. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a degree in Communication and has a background in Film, A/V and Social Media.