@@JadawinL I was trying to demonstrate the result of no gun control causing the need to carry a handgun for everyday protection. It's completely different now, but back in the 90's anyone could buy a handgun from almost any street vendor. It was common for 2 guys on a motorbike to pull up beside any foreigner, mainly working expats and rob them of cash, passport and car. In Australia, that's not even a need for consideration whether to carry a gun in your car for protection. Should have explained it more but was in a rush.
11:30 - the blue one is a Toyota HiLux, and the white one is a Nissan Patrol. They are a bit smaller than the Tacomas and the Titans you get in the US. 4wd 'utes' (trucks) are extremely common over here, but the full-size F-trucks, RAM, and Silverado are quite rare, and incredibly expensive.
In WA, those big American "Trucks" are getting more and more popular, you see them everywhere. The issue is our roads and carparks are not built for them.
You may be surprised to know that here in Australia, we use the emergency break A LOT. Every time we park, break goes up. It's rare for people not to actually use it. We just call it a handbrake here.
Joel, I am afraid stupidity does not know about geographic boundaries. Every day I cross a road near my home. I never cross without having the green walk sign in my favour. I am now up to eighteen times that I have gone close to being run down by drivers who want to turn right despite a no right turn red arrow. Someone suggested to me that Kellogg's put driver's licences in Corn Flakes packets. I heard a joke some time ago that the most depressing job in the world is installing turn indicators in cars knowing that most of them will never be used. If you think Australians are bad watch the Russian RUclips clips. Love your work mate. Keep it up.
As much as any random Dash Cam Owners Australia is great to watch, if you really want to get a sense of Aussie driving culture with it, you might want to check out their Best Of Reactions series, their Road Rage Compilation, and Good Deeds On The Road videos. If you're into driving related stuff, check out some videos about Australian road trains. They're what keeps Australia moving, and we've got the largest ones in the world, makes the trucks in the USA look like toys.
Your excitement at seeing a kangaroo in the traffic made my day. They can be pretty dumb on the road. Sometimes they'll just sit there watching you get closer. I live in a temperate rainforest area in Victoria, so we have a lot of wildlife on the roads. As I come home from work late at night, sometimes I have to follow a wombat down my road - at wombat speed.
4:15 - the best selling brand in Australia is Toyota. Year-to-date, the top 10 best selling brands in Australia are: Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Kia, Hyundai, Ford, MG, Isuzu, Subaru, and Mercedes-Benz. The three top selling car models, year to date, are the Toyota HiLux, Ford Ranger, and Toyota RAV4.
the bike that got hit at 6:35 should have been ok as the red car is driving down something that is not even a car lane...they've just made their own lane to try to get to the next turn...check the road markings...thats the start of a filter lane
5:10 The thing here is that us Aussies use our hand brake whenever we put our cars in park. We don't trust ours cars transmissions like you guys do over in the US so it would have just been the same learned behavior that we all have😂
Just to reference where you said 'yeah you need your emergency break there' (sarcastic as if he didn't). In Australia, we always put our handbrake (emergency break) on when we stop the car. I understand that's not the done thing in America which is why we get to laugh at American dash cam videos where you see people chasing their car down the street when they get out due to road rage or whatever.
Hi Jps, you were curious about the larger vehicles? We call them Dual-Cab Utes (Utility). They are designed to be used by tradies (trades people - sparky (electrician), plumber etc) Dual cabin as it has seats in the front and behind. A standard ute would have front seats only, not as tall a flatter slightly longer tray on the back. Some popular dual cab utes are the Ford Ranger, Toyota HiLux, Holden Colorado
Some of those big trucks are Toyota hilux, Nissan pathfinders or VW Amarok. The occasional ford ranger, be rare to see a ford raptor only if it’s imported same with UK. You’ll also noticed that some of the white lines in the middle of the road are solid two solid white lines that means drivers can’t overtake. Sometimes it’s solid on one side and broken up on the other side, that means one lane of traffic can overtake & the other can’t.
Great commentary Joel. As a Canadian, I'm glad that we don't have a monopoly on stupid drivers, whew! Way to go my Aussie cousins. I've tried driving in the UK and Jamaica, impossible - my brain just won't adjust to the doppelganger reversed world of right-hand drive cars. It's like driving in a mirror. So, now it's walk, bus, or rail for me in the UK.
and of course you're only seeing the recorded ones.....I see stuff like this ever single day. Apparently turn signals are optional and if a sign says no entry it only means it's no entry if nobody sees you do it
Bear in mind of course that this is NOT how the average person drives in Australia - it's a dashcam compilation of incidents captured over the month across most of Australia...
In the last clip, the guy that got out of his car is a reporter for Channel 9 as he stated himself so that is why the dashcam owner said "ill contact Channel 7"
here in Australia it is illegal to carry a gun with you for self defense and if you do happen to own a gun I am pretty sure you have to keep it locked up
I think the white hatchback that ran off the road might’ve had a brake failure? And white van drivers are famous everywhere. It’s relatively easy to own a gun in Australia, but you certainly can’t carry one in your car in an easily accessible way. You can own for sports shooting, hunting and farm work (for pest control, etc), but the gun has to be stored at your gun club or in a proper gun cabinet. Never stored loaded, and never stored in the same place as ammunition.
i am not too sure if America has this. but when you have a license you have a point system. for example when you first get your licence you have 12 points under your name (profile) if you break a road law such as speeding you get 3 points taken away. when you have 0 points you will not be able to drive for 1 year and your license will be taken away from you until the 12 points are back along with a fine depending on your crime. Another example is if you are caught drinking and driving or under any substance. Depending on how much you are under the influence at the time. You can also get your licenced taken away as well as probation and "classes" where you learn why doing such crimes on the road is bad and their outcomes.
Morning Joel, if that driver queue jumping, at 1:25, and holding the lane up, is the worst driver you've ever seen, you should come out with me in my parcel van!
Thanks for the reactions. It's always interesting to see other people's reactions to us and also their reflections on themselves. With respect to Aussie gun laws, people who require guns can usually get some types of guns, unless they have a ban for some reason, like criminal history or mental illness. Hand guns are generally banned and only police, highly-qualified security guards, body guards and jewelers (because they may have to carry extremely valuable objects in public) can get 'concealed carry' licenses to carry hand guns. There may be other occupations like jewelers, who can get concealed carry licences, but I don't know of any myself. They're hard to get and complicated to maintain, so you would have to need it to bother. People who are competitive shooters or professional hunters can get gun licences for the types of gun they need. Fully automatic weapons are generally completely banned and even the police don't carry them, unless they are an elite unit in special circumstances. Some competitive weapons and hunting weapons are semi-automatic, but are mostly rifles, not hand guns. You can get licences for semi-automatic hand guns if you legitimately compete in shooting those weapons, but you can't carry them in public and they are usually stored at the gun clubs. Farmers can get gun licences for pest control on their property, but generally only rifles and shotguns. Again, they are only for use on their property, must be stored appropriately and can't be carried in public. Weapons can't be carried openly, unless you're police, security or protective services. That's the same for things like knives and swords. If you compete in a sport that uses those things you can't carry them openly. You have to have them in a bag. Police also have to carry non-lethal alternatives, like capsicum spray and tasers, and I think, unless they are directly threatened and in danger of being killed themselves, they are supposed to try the non-lethal alternatives first, before using their firearm. The laws vary from state to state. Some types of drugs make people somewhat immune to the non-lethal modes, so if a police officer is alone and confronted by someone they can't stop, they may have to use their gun. There are still occasionally police shootings in Australia, but they are rarely fatal. Victoria (a state) seems to have had more than other states, so their procedures may be different. Weapons must be stored in locked containers that have to meet certain standards. Most people use safes. Weapons are not supposed to be stored loaded and ammunition is supposed to be stored separately to the weapon in a different container. A friend of mine, who was a competitive shooter and gun collector had a large safe for all of his weapons and a separate safe for ammunition. He had to compete every month in an official competition with each type of weapon to maintain his licences for each. When he stopped competing, he had to sell all of his weapons. The Australian government bought back a lot of weapons when the new laws came in, but it's estimated that there are still over a million unlicensed firearms in circulation in Australia. Although the Federal laws are quite strict, the policing is mostly done by the states and state laws have been watered down a bit from their original status due to the influence of powerful political interest groups on lawmakers. That is currently being reviewed. My father was a professional shooter / hunter before the new gun laws came in. After he passed away, I cleaned out his bedroom and found all of his rifles hidden behind a cupboard. The police told me to bring them all in in a bag, which was a bit nerve-wracking, walking into the local police headquarters with a bag full of high-powered rifles, but I just had to fill in some paperwork and hand them all in. It would also be relatively simple to smuggle weapons into Australia if you have the resources because so much of the coastline is remote. The criminal elements in Australia obviously still have guns, but shootings are relatively rare and usually gang-related. Any firearm-related crime triggers a massive public outcry and response from the police. Most Australians do not want guns in our lives. Armed robberies with firearms are virtually unheard of now. Any armed robberies or assaults these days are usually done with knives or machetes, and they are infrequent enough that they almost always make the news nationally when they happen Most shootings tend to be internal gang-related hits or murder-suicides in rural areas. There are some knife-related attacks, but the typical Australian way of settling grievances is to get drunk and have a really awkward, unco-ordinated brawl in a public place, where people get more injured by falling over than actually hitting anyone. Then everyone goes back inside and has another beer. Thanks again for the reactions.
We don't normally carry gun's in our car's unless we have a shooters licence and we are going to a shooting range we are not allowed to have concealed weapons at any time
If you're looking for a video about Australia's gun laws, how and why they came about, and have a giggle at the same time, try this one: ruclips.net/video/4dVcaWyNN-Q/видео.html and the part 2 ruclips.net/video/mG_nBB6UbcA/видео.html. It does vary slightly by what state you're in, but generally speaking, semi-automatic and fully automatic firearms are illegal, you have to go through a background check, there's a 28 day waiting period for approval, and you have to specify why you want a firearm. The only acceptable reasons are hunting and sport. Self-defence is not an acceptable reason for carrying any kind of weapon, including knives, pepper spray, etc. Self defence laws are different here, you're allowed to defend yourself only in so far as you can avoid being harmed, that is, attacking is not defending. Self-defence is also about fair level of force, that is, you can't defend yourself against a knife with a gun, can't defend yourself against an unarmed attacker with a knife, etc. Once you have a firearm, you have to keep it locked up when you're not using it, you can't just carry it around or keep it in your car.
the trailer where the 'reach-truck' just fell off was because the driver had missed the lane he needed to be in se turned too sharply and the trailer tipped up
road rage is super common in Australia. people will try run you off the road, swerve at you, throw things from their car at yours, pull over and physically fight each other.... just the other month there was one that lasted over half an hour and ended up in one of them speeding ahead to pull over and get something from their car (to presumably throw at the other persons); which ultimately ended up at the other person swerving at him and killing him. happens way too often
We had a nut job go off with two different types of firearms down in Tasmania in the 1990’s I think, so the Australian Government immediately cracked down and had an amnesty for people to hand In unregistered firearms of which thousands upon thousands were handed in and then they were banned , unless your job deems it necessary or your a farmer or you belong to a Gun club, and I believe when you in a Gun Club you still have attend a certain amount of hours . They are very strict here. But we have not had another massacre here like the one at Port Arthur in Tasmania.
4:55 Something fell out of a sedan while crossing the train tracks and the crossing activated. 5:34 The ute 3-point-turned into the car behind it. 5:51 Swerved and coasted into an embankment. Despite the colour white, double line means don't cross whatsoever and solid line means don't pass. So the u-turner and the overtakes broke the law also.
The main people in Australia with guns are the police and some farmers, to get a gun there's inspections and tests to go through which makes it hard to obtain.
G'day mate, iv'e lived in a Asian Country for years, Hahaha. Aussies are magnificant drivers. As a matter of fact, most Aussie drivers have taken and passed a drivers test. Hahaha.
first truck you see is call an Attenuator or aka bump truck, its basically a big spring, its to protect the workzone from vehicles, stops a car at 150km/h
one of those roads at the start is rally close to where i live. i once saw a car turn in to the wrong lane and nearly crash in to a truck trying to turn.
gun ownership in australia for road rage 3 years ago in the northern suburbs melbourne 2 drug dealers in a car cut off someone in his car road rage happened and one of the drug dealers shot at him hit his car so criminal have the guns here not the law abiding citizen
The sad thing is, we are so used to the way people drive that we grow accustom to learning to avoid them. Whenever driving through a roundabout or going at a green light, I look all ways regardless. You get some interesting people with knives or their own selves to deal with.
In New South Wales it is illegal to do a U-turn. Every state is different in road rules. Not sure anyone has explained yet but Channel 9 and Channel 7 are commercial free to air tv networks. They are 2 of the largest in Australia.
These sorts of videos show some of the *real* idiots on the road over here, but as someone who's nearly died because of dumbassery from other drivers, it still shocks me how moronic some people will be.
I watch these dash cam videos every week and I must admit I'm glad I don't drive much now days. It seems everyone has gone mad on the roads. Road rage is definitely on the increase. Lucky the gun issues has not been a problem here as we don't have guns. Gun laws in Australia are very Strick and guns are harder to buy and are expensive. The Jim Jorden video does really cover why we don't have guns. As he stated we had one mass shooting and the government of the time said, "that's it no more guns". The government did buy back guns and they were destroyed. We do still have shootings from people who buy guns illegally but in comparison to American these shooting total in a year what you guys have in one hour. Keep up the videos .
They’re LutesL those trucks. I guess they’re close to your pickup trucks? Ute = utility vehicle. A cabin (single or dual cab) with a tray. Very, very common in Australia.
Hi Joel! I'm from the UK and can tell you the majority of vehicles in Australia and New Zealand are Japanese and Korean e.g. Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Hyundai and Kia
You want to see how the kangaroos (we shorten every word, so call them Roos) jump out of the bush (especially at dawn and dusk) and demolish a car! I knew someone who hit a roo (killed it) and the roo meat came through the air vents (the car was of course a write off, meaning can’t be fixed). Also we don’t have driving classes at school like you do in the USA. I think road rage happens more in big populations. You have a much bigger population.
In Australia, we call ""trucks"" utes (pronounced "YOU-TS") not to be confused by actual big trucks, we do say truck for the big rigs like semis and stuff.
Nice to see you shaking your head in amazement at exactly the same moments as myself Joel. There's some very entitled drivers here in Oz, along with some who have clearly exceeded their capabilities. Thankfully, the risk for us getting shot from a road rage incident is extremely low, but we might get a baseball bat wrapped around our heads for our efforts. 🙃
Can't own one without a licence and if you do have a licence you can't have the bullets and the gun in the same place nothing have to be locked away but most the time it's just people using them at gun ranges or hunting or police I have never even seen a real gun in my life
We have speed limits. Max is 110 km/h everywhere except Northern Territory. I think it’s 130 up there. Dash cams have wide angle lenses which makes speed appear faster.
We do and they're pretty strictly enforced (lots of speed cams and fines), though what exactly they are tends to depend on area: 20 to 30 km/h for school zones, 50 to 60km/h is generally about the max within a town's streets, most 'urban' highways tend to be about 80 or 90km/h with some variation depending on the kinds of roads they are (twists with nearby cliffs might go down to 70 for example) and then the 'rural' sections of highway, which are usually long, straight and flat, tend to allow 100 to 110km/h since well. You'll generally want a lot of speed given how far you'll probably be travelling.
yes. driving is pretty bad in Australia. Gotten worse since texting and my personal favorite VIDEO CHAT while driving. Everyone is always in hurry. Slow drivers taking up the right lane, holding up traffic. Foreigners driving using road rules from their own country. More restrictions are needed for foreign drivers.
most common car brands in australia (at least in WA, and in no particular order): toyota ford holden mitsubishi honda subaru hyundai kia honourable mentions: jeep volkswagen volvo
You looked a bit confused about the Ferrari, its illegal to overtake on double centre lines. Most common cars are fod/holden (we use to make them here as well, factories are closed now, but thats why we have the australian style side utes (like ford falcon)) and japanese cars like mazda, suzuki, mitsubishi. We have euro cars of course but i dont see them as much.
@6.30 I'm pretty sure that red Ferrari is in a suburb called Narellan in NSW. I live near that suburb and its rare to see those sports cars there. You would usually see a lot of Nissan GU/GQ patrols, Ford Rangers/Raptors, Suzuki Jimnys, Landcruiser 79 series, Toyota Hilux and Mitsubishi Pajero (which is what I drive :) ) done up with cool mods and custom accessories in my area. You should totally do a video about the different kinds of 4WD cars in Australia, I highly recommend watching 4WD/27 they're a popular 4WD youtube channel from Australia.
Notice the size of some trucks, plus hauling multiple trailers. You should check out vids on outback truckers. Leaves the Stater for dead with what they haul.
Carrying a gun for self-defence is illegal in Australia. Licenses for handguns are extremely restrictive and usually only the police carry them.
I lived in Thailand working for a yacht builder and it's perfectly legal and recommend to carry a handgun as long as the clip is separate.
@@zalired8925 that might be legal in Thailand but not Australia.
@@JadawinL I was trying to demonstrate the result of no gun control causing the need to carry a handgun for everyday protection. It's completely different now, but back in the 90's anyone could buy a handgun from almost any street vendor. It was common for 2 guys on a motorbike to pull up beside any foreigner, mainly working expats and rob them of cash, passport and car.
In Australia, that's not even a need for consideration whether to carry a gun in your car for protection.
Should have explained it more but was in a rush.
Exactly. Basically only cops and farmers.
@@jessbellis9510 and Sporting shooters.
11:30 - the blue one is a Toyota HiLux, and the white one is a Nissan Patrol. They are a bit smaller than the Tacomas and the Titans you get in the US. 4wd 'utes' (trucks) are extremely common over here, but the full-size F-trucks, RAM, and Silverado are quite rare, and incredibly expensive.
just to add: ute is an abbreviation for utility vehicle
In WA, those big American "Trucks" are getting more and more popular, you see them everywhere. The issue is our roads and carparks are not built for them.
@@gregmccallum3124 So expensive too.
@@gregmccallum3124 I can see a use case for them in WA, NT and pretty much anywhere rural. Having them in a suburban area or city is just bonkers.
Navara not a Patrol
You may be surprised to know that here in Australia, we use the emergency break A LOT. Every time we park, break goes up. It's rare for people not to actually use it. We just call it a handbrake here.
"hand-brake"... the word "break" is what you do when you break a glass or break into a house.
Joel, I am afraid stupidity does not know about geographic boundaries. Every day I cross a road near my home. I never cross without having the green walk sign in my favour. I am now up to eighteen times that I have gone close to being run down by drivers who want to turn right despite a no right turn red arrow. Someone suggested to me that Kellogg's put driver's licences in Corn Flakes packets. I heard a joke some time ago that the most depressing job in the world is installing turn indicators in cars knowing that most of them will never be used.
If you think Australians are bad watch the Russian RUclips clips. Love your work mate. Keep it up.
The guy telling the driver from Channel 9 he’s gonna call Channel 7 🤣🤣 Cracked me up! 🤣🤣
As much as any random Dash Cam Owners Australia is great to watch, if you really want to get a sense of Aussie driving culture with it, you might want to check out their Best Of Reactions series, their Road Rage Compilation, and Good Deeds On The Road videos.
If you're into driving related stuff, check out some videos about Australian road trains. They're what keeps Australia moving, and we've got the largest ones in the world, makes the trucks in the USA look like toys.
Yes, a good one that ✔️
No we certainly don’t carry guns in our cars for these situations 😂
Such an American thing to say.
I love at 10.41 the car horn made you jump LMAO
I always enjoy your road reactions Joel. You are right, there is no need to lose your shit with others.
Your excitement at seeing a kangaroo in the traffic made my day. They can be pretty dumb on the road. Sometimes they'll just sit there watching you get closer.
I live in a temperate rainforest area in Victoria, so we have a lot of wildlife on the roads. As I come home from work late at night, sometimes I have to follow a wombat down my road - at wombat speed.
4:15 - the best selling brand in Australia is Toyota. Year-to-date, the top 10 best selling brands in Australia are: Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Kia, Hyundai, Ford, MG, Isuzu, Subaru, and Mercedes-Benz. The three top selling car models, year to date, are the Toyota HiLux, Ford Ranger, and Toyota RAV4.
the bike that got hit at 6:35 should have been ok as the red car is driving down something that is not even a car lane...they've just made their own lane to try to get to the next turn...check the road markings...thats the start of a filter lane
5:10 The thing here is that us Aussies use our hand brake whenever we put our cars in park. We don't trust ours cars transmissions like you guys do over in the US so it would have just been the same learned behavior that we all have😂
Just to reference where you said 'yeah you need your emergency break there' (sarcastic as if he didn't). In Australia, we always put our handbrake (emergency break) on when we stop the car. I understand that's not the done thing in America which is why we get to laugh at American dash cam videos where you see people chasing their car down the street when they get out due to road rage or whatever.
Hi Jps, you were curious about the larger vehicles? We call them Dual-Cab Utes (Utility).
They are designed to be used by tradies (trades people - sparky (electrician), plumber etc)
Dual cabin as it has seats in the front and behind.
A standard ute would have front seats only, not as tall a flatter slightly longer tray on the back.
Some popular dual cab utes are the Ford Ranger, Toyota HiLux, Holden Colorado
I am curious why Aussies change words like "traders" to 'tradies'. It is not even shorter, so I don't get it. 🤔
We would call them Tradesmen here so tradie is easier for us
@@adrianhempfing2042 OK, fair enough mate. But it is still swapping two syllables for two other syllables. Why does it have to be easier, lol?
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@@79BlackRose It's a culture thing I don't think you would ever understand. It's not about it being short.
Yes Joel, would love to see your reaction to our gun laws from your USA perspective.
There is one like that
Some of those big trucks are Toyota hilux, Nissan pathfinders or VW Amarok. The occasional ford ranger, be rare to see a ford raptor only if it’s imported same with UK.
You’ll also noticed that some of the white lines in the middle of the road are solid two solid white lines that means drivers can’t overtake. Sometimes it’s solid on one side and broken up on the other side, that means one lane of traffic can overtake & the other can’t.
Most road accidents outside of the city involve people who are not experienced with speed and our roads.
At least they drive on the Correct Side of the Road!
True.
As I've always said. America might drive on the right side of the road, but here in Australia we drive on the correct side
Great commentary Joel. As a Canadian, I'm glad that we don't have a monopoly on stupid drivers, whew! Way to go my Aussie cousins. I've tried driving in the UK and Jamaica, impossible - my brain just won't adjust to the doppelganger reversed world of right-hand drive cars. It's like driving in a mirror. So, now it's walk, bus, or rail for me in the UK.
and of course you're only seeing the recorded ones.....I see stuff like this ever single day. Apparently turn signals are optional and if a sign says no entry it only means it's no entry if nobody sees you do it
JP when you come to Australia and on the roads you must learn this important phrase "nice blinker dickhead" when they don't use a blinker
Bear in mind of course that this is NOT how the average person drives in Australia - it's a dashcam compilation of incidents captured over the month across most of Australia...
I drive for a living and I see this shit daily!
In the last clip, the guy that got out of his car is a reporter for Channel 9 as he stated himself so that is why the dashcam owner said "ill contact Channel 7"
here in Australia it is illegal to carry a gun with you for self defense and if you do happen to own a gun I am pretty sure you have to keep it locked up
and give 1 year in jail
not a video to but a song, very special to all australians, its called "i was only 19" by redgum
I think the white hatchback that ran off the road might’ve had a brake failure? And white van drivers are famous everywhere.
It’s relatively easy to own a gun in Australia, but you certainly can’t carry one in your car in an easily accessible way. You can own for sports shooting, hunting and farm work (for pest control, etc), but the gun has to be stored at your gun club or in a proper gun cabinet. Never stored loaded, and never stored in the same place as ammunition.
I fucking hate those drivers who try to turn left or right from the middle lane...
We have “road rage “ here too, but we don’t have guns in our glove box!
Driving standards are the same as the U.K.
Really enjoying your channel, thanks!
i am not too sure if America has this. but when you have a license you have a point system. for example when you first get your licence you have 12 points under your name (profile) if you break a road law such as speeding you get 3 points taken away. when you have 0 points you will not be able to drive for 1 year and your license will be taken away from you until the 12 points are back along with a fine depending on your crime. Another example is if you are caught drinking and driving or under any substance. Depending on how much you are under the influence at the time. You can also get your licenced taken away as well as probation and "classes" where you learn why doing such crimes on the road is bad and their outcomes.
We swear like maniacs when people do something crazy infront of us but we don’t get out of the car holding guns.
Morning Joel, if that driver queue jumping, at 1:25, and holding the lane up, is the worst driver you've ever seen, you should come out with me in my parcel van!
Thanks for the reactions. It's always interesting to see other people's reactions to us and also their reflections on themselves. With respect to Aussie gun laws, people who require guns can usually get some types of guns, unless they have a ban for some reason, like criminal history or mental illness. Hand guns are generally banned and only police, highly-qualified security guards, body guards and jewelers (because they may have to carry extremely valuable objects in public) can get 'concealed carry' licenses to carry hand guns. There may be other occupations like jewelers, who can get concealed carry licences, but I don't know of any myself. They're hard to get and complicated to maintain, so you would have to need it to bother.
People who are competitive shooters or professional hunters can get gun licences for the types of gun they need. Fully automatic weapons are generally completely banned and even the police don't carry them, unless they are an elite unit in special circumstances. Some competitive weapons and hunting weapons are semi-automatic, but are mostly rifles, not hand guns. You can get licences for semi-automatic hand guns if you legitimately compete in shooting those weapons, but you can't carry them in public and they are usually stored at the gun clubs. Farmers can get gun licences for pest control on their property, but generally only rifles and shotguns. Again, they are only for use on their property, must be stored appropriately and can't be carried in public.
Weapons can't be carried openly, unless you're police, security or protective services. That's the same for things like knives and swords. If you compete in a sport that uses those things you can't carry them openly. You have to have them in a bag. Police also have to carry non-lethal alternatives, like capsicum spray and tasers, and I think, unless they are directly threatened and in danger of being killed themselves, they are supposed to try the non-lethal alternatives first, before using their firearm. The laws vary from state to state. Some types of drugs make people somewhat immune to the non-lethal modes, so if a police officer is alone and confronted by someone they can't stop, they may have to use their gun. There are still occasionally police shootings in Australia, but they are rarely fatal. Victoria (a state) seems to have had more than other states, so their procedures may be different.
Weapons must be stored in locked containers that have to meet certain standards. Most people use safes. Weapons are not supposed to be stored loaded and ammunition is supposed to be stored separately to the weapon in a different container. A friend of mine, who was a competitive shooter and gun collector had a large safe for all of his weapons and a separate safe for ammunition. He had to compete every month in an official competition with each type of weapon to maintain his licences for each. When he stopped competing, he had to sell all of his weapons.
The Australian government bought back a lot of weapons when the new laws came in, but it's estimated that there are still over a million unlicensed firearms in circulation in Australia. Although the Federal laws are quite strict, the policing is mostly done by the states and state laws have been watered down a bit from their original status due to the influence of powerful political interest groups on lawmakers. That is currently being reviewed. My father was a professional shooter / hunter before the new gun laws came in. After he passed away, I cleaned out his bedroom and found all of his rifles hidden behind a cupboard. The police told me to bring them all in in a bag, which was a bit nerve-wracking, walking into the local police headquarters with a bag full of high-powered rifles, but I just had to fill in some paperwork and hand them all in.
It would also be relatively simple to smuggle weapons into Australia if you have the resources because so much of the coastline is remote. The criminal elements in Australia obviously still have guns, but shootings are relatively rare and usually gang-related. Any firearm-related crime triggers a massive public outcry and response from the police. Most Australians do not want guns in our lives. Armed robberies with firearms are virtually unheard of now. Any armed robberies or assaults these days are usually done with knives or machetes, and they are infrequent enough that they almost always make the news nationally when they happen
Most shootings tend to be internal gang-related hits or murder-suicides in rural areas. There are some knife-related attacks, but the typical Australian way of settling grievances is to get drunk and have a really awkward, unco-ordinated brawl in a public place, where people get more injured by falling over than actually hitting anyone. Then everyone goes back inside and has another beer.
Thanks again for the reactions.
We don't normally carry gun's in our car's unless we have a shooters licence and we are going to a shooting range we are not allowed to have concealed weapons at any time
If you're looking for a video about Australia's gun laws, how and why they came about, and have a giggle at the same time, try this one: ruclips.net/video/4dVcaWyNN-Q/видео.html and the part 2 ruclips.net/video/mG_nBB6UbcA/видео.html. It does vary slightly by what state you're in, but generally speaking, semi-automatic and fully automatic firearms are illegal, you have to go through a background check, there's a 28 day waiting period for approval, and you have to specify why you want a firearm. The only acceptable reasons are hunting and sport. Self-defence is not an acceptable reason for carrying any kind of weapon, including knives, pepper spray, etc. Self defence laws are different here, you're allowed to defend yourself only in so far as you can avoid being harmed, that is, attacking is not defending. Self-defence is also about fair level of force, that is, you can't defend yourself against a knife with a gun, can't defend yourself against an unarmed attacker with a knife, etc. Once you have a firearm, you have to keep it locked up when you're not using it, you can't just carry it around or keep it in your car.
6:17 Thats a rare situation where they are both idiots who are in the wrong.
the trailer where the 'reach-truck' just fell off was because the driver had missed the lane he needed to be in se turned too sharply and the trailer tipped up
road rage is super common in Australia. people will try run you off the road, swerve at you, throw things from their car at yours, pull over and physically fight each other....
just the other month there was one that lasted over half an hour and ended up in one of them speeding ahead to pull over and get something from their car (to presumably throw at the other persons); which ultimately ended up at the other person swerving at him and killing him. happens way too often
love the vid man, you should consider reacting to the Australia's deadliest animals song if you haven't already!
10:39 Toukley, Central Coast (AKA home). Across the road from Canton Restaurant (shown) is the Beachcomber Hotel... A common hot spot for trouble
Definitely check out Jim Jeffries - Gun Control. He is an Aussie comedian.
yes do it it! hes hilarious and right on the money
Well he was a comedian, he's just a miserable drunk now...
the one with the kangaroo is on my daily commute
Lots of tourists and Asian drivers!! 😳
We had a nut job go off with two different types of firearms down in Tasmania in the 1990’s I think, so the Australian Government immediately cracked down and had an amnesty for people to hand In unregistered firearms of which thousands upon thousands were handed in and then they were banned , unless your job deems it necessary or your a farmer or you belong to a Gun club, and I believe when you in a Gun Club you still have attend a certain amount of hours . They are very strict here. But we have not had another massacre here like the one at Port Arthur in Tasmania.
my road rage will depend on the type of car, they more likely to bring a tyre iron out of the car and go wild than shoot you
I sub to the Aussie dash cam, always something funny or annoying or jaw dropping, but they normally end on a good one.
You mean, "Ronnie Pickering." "Who?" "Ronnie Pickering." "Who?" "RONNIE PICKERING!!!!!" "Who's that then?" "ME!!!!" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
John Oliver did a great series on the daily show about gun control in Australia. Also Jim Jeffries gun control is really funny.
4:55 Something fell out of a sedan while crossing the train tracks and the crossing activated. 5:34 The ute 3-point-turned into the car behind it. 5:51 Swerved and coasted into an embankment.
Despite the colour white, double line means don't cross whatsoever and solid line means don't pass. So the u-turner and the overtakes broke the law also.
i think you should go to Australia next
Take a look at some of our road train driving on road without speed limits
We don’t have to be worried about being shot though lol
who do you thing you are. Ronnie Pickering!
Who?😂
The main people in Australia with guns are the police and some farmers, to get a gun there's inspections and tests to go through which makes it hard to obtain.
"I'm Ronnie Pickering"
Who? 🤣
@@79BlackRose Ronnie Pickering!
@@martinscott-reed5379 Haha.
I don’t think he missed the turn, I think he was arrogant and decided he shouldn’t have to wait in line like the others.
G'day mate, iv'e lived in a Asian Country for years, Hahaha. Aussies are magnificant drivers. As a matter of fact, most Aussie drivers have taken and passed a drivers test. Hahaha.
As you would know from experience, it's the Asian drivers we look out for.
It's illegal to overtake on the left. It takes patience and observation to deal with merging traffic knto a freeway.
first truck you see is call an Attenuator or aka bump truck, its basically a big spring, its to protect the workzone from vehicles, stops a car at 150km/h
@3:50 it's a case of unsecured load, going to fast, and bumping the kerb... Newton's 3rd law, that of rotational movement.
Yep we've got road rage here to, luckily gun ownership here is very low.
That's why go by train when I can!!
Definitely should react to road rage videos, it’s hilarious how much us Aussie’s swear😂
Just going to scrape a dingo off my roo bar
one of those roads at the start is rally close to where i live. i once saw a car turn in to the wrong lane and nearly crash in to a truck trying to turn.
They drive similar cars as they do in the U.K.
gun ownership in australia for road rage
3 years ago in the northern suburbs melbourne 2 drug dealers in a car cut off someone in his car road rage happened and one of the drug dealers shot at him hit his car so criminal have the guns here not the law abiding citizen
11:51 we don't call them trucks. both of these ar 4X4 but our Toyota is a hi-lux, Nissan is a Navara, Ford is a Ranger, Holden was a colorado
Also the Ute's you see a lot of are Toyota Hilux, Mazda BT50, Nissan Navara, Toyota Landcruiser, Isuzu D-Max, Ford Ranger, Holden Colorado.
Hi Joel , it's a great video. (pierre)
The sad thing is, we are so used to the way people drive that we grow accustom to learning to avoid them. Whenever driving through a roundabout or going at a green light, I look all ways regardless. You get some interesting people with knives or their own selves to deal with.
In New South Wales it is illegal to do a U-turn. Every state is different in road rules.
Not sure anyone has explained yet but Channel 9 and Channel 7 are commercial free to air tv networks. They are 2 of the largest in Australia.
5:16 that is LITERALLY my local shopping centre 😂 shoutout to Plumpton Marketplace
6:17 just so everyone one knows.
That was actually the red car’s fault.
Here in Australia if a motorcycle can fit ->safety
These sorts of videos show some of the *real* idiots on the road over here, but as someone who's nearly died because of dumbassery from other drivers, it still shocks me how moronic some people will be.
I watch these dash cam videos every week and I must admit I'm glad I don't drive much now days. It seems everyone has gone mad on the roads. Road rage is definitely on the increase. Lucky the gun issues has not been a problem here as we don't have guns. Gun laws in Australia are very Strick and guns are harder to buy and are expensive. The Jim Jorden video does really cover why we don't have guns. As he stated we had one mass shooting and the government of the time said, "that's it no more guns". The government did buy back guns and they were destroyed. We do still have shootings from people who buy guns illegally but in comparison to American these shooting total in a year what you guys have in one hour. Keep up the videos .
That channel 9 dude was Martin King. He used to shove cameras in peoples faces. Too funny
They’re LutesL those trucks. I guess they’re close to your pickup trucks? Ute = utility vehicle. A cabin (single or dual cab) with a tray. Very, very common in Australia.
Hi Joel! I'm from the UK and can tell you the majority of vehicles in Australia and New Zealand are Japanese and Korean e.g. Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Hyundai and Kia
You want to see how the kangaroos (we shorten every word, so call them Roos) jump out of the bush (especially at dawn and dusk) and demolish a car! I knew someone who hit a roo (killed it) and the roo meat came through the air vents (the car was of course a write off, meaning can’t be fixed). Also we don’t have driving classes at school like you do in the USA. I think road rage happens more in big populations. You have a much bigger population.
11:20 that is called a Ute mate. Holden (used to R.I.P Holden) make Utes that go up to 200 km/h
I mean we all make driving errors in our lives but those ones are questionable like how they even got their licence.
In Australia, we call ""trucks"" utes (pronounced "YOU-TS") not to be confused by actual big trucks, we do say truck for the big rigs like semis and stuff.
Nice to see you shaking your head in amazement at exactly the same moments as myself Joel. There's some very entitled drivers here in Oz, along with some who have clearly exceeded their capabilities. Thankfully, the risk for us getting shot from a road rage incident is extremely low, but we might get a baseball bat wrapped around our heads for our efforts. 🙃
Can't own one without a licence and if you do have a licence you can't have the bullets and the gun in the same place nothing have to be locked away but most the time it's just people using them at gun ranges or hunting or police I have never even seen a real gun in my life
SEE WHY WE HAVE RANDOM ALCOHOL AND DRUG TESTING ?
Do they have speed limits on their roads I wonder. They seem to travel so much faster than the UK!
We have speed limits. Max is 110 km/h everywhere except Northern Territory. I think it’s 130 up there. Dash cams have wide angle lenses which makes speed appear faster.
@@zwieseler - not too many 110kph roads, 100kph is the common max.
@@DD-wd7ku I’m in Western Australia…. Lots of 110 kph outside Perth.
We do and they're pretty strictly enforced (lots of speed cams and fines), though what exactly they are tends to depend on area: 20 to 30 km/h for school zones, 50 to 60km/h is generally about the max within a town's streets, most 'urban' highways tend to be about 80 or 90km/h with some variation depending on the kinds of roads they are (twists with nearby cliffs might go down to 70 for example) and then the 'rural' sections of highway, which are usually long, straight and flat, tend to allow 100 to 110km/h since well. You'll generally want a lot of speed given how far you'll probably be travelling.
Looking forward to you learning about our gun laws
The general rule for the round about is give way to right, that’s why you usually see the person on the left causing the accidents
yes. driving is pretty bad in Australia. Gotten worse since texting and my personal favorite VIDEO CHAT while driving. Everyone is always in hurry. Slow drivers taking up the right lane, holding up traffic. Foreigners driving using road rules from their own country. More restrictions are needed for foreign drivers.
there's some classics in there. That last dude in the fancy car, what a tool!
12:05 the white car is trying to cause an accident to scam the other driver. Unfortunately way too common in australia
most common car brands in australia (at least in WA, and in no particular order):
toyota
ford
holden
mitsubishi
honda
subaru
hyundai
kia
honourable mentions:
jeep
volkswagen
volvo
You looked a bit confused about the Ferrari, its illegal to overtake on double centre lines.
Most common cars are fod/holden (we use to make them here as well, factories are closed now, but thats why we have the australian style side utes (like ford falcon)) and japanese cars like mazda, suzuki, mitsubishi. We have euro cars of course but i dont see them as much.
@6.30 I'm pretty sure that red Ferrari is in a suburb called Narellan in NSW. I live near that suburb and its rare to see those sports cars there. You would usually see a lot of Nissan GU/GQ patrols, Ford Rangers/Raptors, Suzuki Jimnys, Landcruiser 79 series, Toyota Hilux and Mitsubishi Pajero (which is what I drive :) ) done up with cool mods and custom accessories in my area. You should totally do a video about the different kinds of 4WD cars in Australia, I highly recommend watching 4WD/27 they're a popular 4WD youtube channel from Australia.
Notice the size of some trucks, plus hauling multiple trailers. You should check out vids on outback truckers. Leaves the Stater for dead with what they haul.
I can't believe the ones who quite brazenly cross the double lines on some of those roads...
I'm literally always scared of other drivers, you never know who is behind the wheel. At least 60% (if not more) of drivers need more driving lessons.
The confusion 5:00 😂😂