American Reacts to Aussie Dashcam Good Deeds, Lending a Hand 

Glad you liked it, Take it easy on the Tim Tams!

I once left my wallet on the roof of my car at a shopping centre. I got home and realised what I'd done and was getting ready to retrace my steps to try and find my wallet. As I was about to leave, a gentleman came into the property asking for me. He'd found my wallet on the road and checked the license, then drove 5km to my place to return it. Bloody legend.

Queensland is the Sunshine State. Our catchphrase is Beautiful one day, perfect the next. That car that broke down is Coronation Drive in Brisbane. It runs beside the Brisbane River and if he continued in front of him is the Brisbane CBD. It is an extremely busy road. And yes that was an ambulance and we call the ambulance drivers and medics ....ambos. We shorten everything. Brisbane is my hometown and I ‘m glad a few of those videos were from Brissie, did it again. Lol

Ian this is how Aussies are dosen't matter where you are or who it is we're always there for one another, given there are a few Bad Apples that won't show the Love but there's not many

My sons tyre blew last week and I stayed with the car while he went to get a new tyre, the car was jacked up and in the 20mins I was waiting I had 6 different people stop and ask if they could help, made me so happy to know even in hard times Aussies will stop and help and even have a friendly chat while you wait :-)

Oh man you were talking so much during the clip of the guy hoping out of the van you didn’t notice the snake haha love your content mate

You guys seen that Oz highway patrol where a kid gets a speeding ticket and gives the cops heaps of attitude? He speeds away and on cop says “he’s doing 60 again. Should we give him another ticket?” Laughs - yeah, ---- it, why not!”

For a vehicle, in Aus we say-> Hood= bonnet. Trunk=boot. Great video amongst so much negativity. Thanks!

Our (in Victoria anyway) highway patrol cars are colourful so that they easily stand out if they have someone pulled over in the service lane so you know to slow down near them and not hit the officer

Yes the balloon saver was a Police Officer. Sunshine state is Queensland who also carry the tourism slogan “beautiful one day, perfect the next”. In Australia, we refer to good deeds as mateship. Cheers from Down Under 😉🇦🇺

13:55 They were jump starting the bike, when a car or bike doesn't start (and it's manual) you hold the clutch in, get someone else to push it as fast as they can and then dump the clutch in second gear with the ignition on which causes the car/bike to start.

when someones in trouble...always count on an Aussie to lend a hand...and expect nothing but a thanks or a hand shake in return..its just how we are wired... the rest of the world could learn a thing or 2 from us

One thing I can positively guarantee you, mate. Australians are one of the nicest people in the world. I came to Australia in the late 80s as a teen and was the only Asian in my school, not once did I ever felt an outsider. In my very first day during lunch time sitting all alone a couple of students came up to me and offered me an apple and an orange then asked me if I wanted to join them in a game of basketball. I couldn't refuse since I love the game, that, and they were twice my size 😛😁. Those two big Aussie blokes became my best friends till these days. Also, one thing I love about the Australian people are their brutal honesty, humour, and non-pc attitude. 🙂

Interesting fact about motorcycle riding in New South Wales. When you get your licence to ride a bike in NSW, you have to do a course first. The first thing you have to be able to do is pick your bike up off the ground by yourself. If you can’t do it, they fail you and send you home right then and there. When I did my course it happened to a kid in my group, he tried to pick up the bike (a little Honda 250cc) for what felt like a really long time but just couldn’t get the thing upright. The instructor gave him so much time but the poor kid just couldn’t do it.

Good deeds warm the cockles of our hearts. No matter who or where you are. Even telling a stranger that their outfit looks nice on them brings happiness. It all helps in passing it forward.

Loved the cheer you gave the two lads getting the forby up onto the median strip.

12:08 chin wagging and completely missed the snake 😂

We don't have Dashcam but My Sister and I live about a 15 minute drive from Atherton. Where The Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland (it's up a Mountain Range behind Cairns) gets it name from. While still a Country Town it's pretty busy, everyone does their shopping there. If the Flow Of Traffic isn't to heavy My Sister will stop the car for Pedestrians Trying To Cross The Road. So they don't have to stand around in The Sun or Rain too long. It also a Popular Tourist Destination you get practically everything except The Great Barrier Reef that you'll find on Coast. With Cooler Temperatures, many Tourists visit both. Every year plenty of visitors decide they like the area so much they'll move here. In general we're pretty considerate. Except when someone is driving Too Far under the speed limit, even then We generally won't Yell About it. We'll usually say "Hello!", stop to talk to people or Help Others. At Supermarkets it's common for a customer at a checkout to put a divider in place for next customer. I'm 5'9 with a long reach and was raised to be A Lady. With Simple Elegance as well as being Good to others. I routinely hold doors open for people. If someone does that for Me, I make a point of Thanking Them. In Shops and Supermarkets I regularly help people who can't reach items they want. Sometimes if I see that items on higher shelves are too far back I'll pull them closer for other customers.

I was on crutches a few months ago If I was in a shop I was constantly stunned by home many people offered to help me or carry things to my car. Mostly Australians are good people It restored my faith in humanity

Australian ambulances are Mercedes Sprinters (normally) Edit: that type of fence looks like a wire fence, wooden posts with 4 or more runs of wire horizontally strung.

It’s called Hungry Jacks in Oz because when they came here there was already a business named “Burger King”, so they had to call it something else, ala Hungry Jacks. We call them Highway Patrol cars “Candy Cars” because theyre so colourful like a bag of Skittles. Mate you know enough about us now, youd pass the citizenship test easy as…. Imo you are an Aussie already mate

'Aye the fkn kindness of people make ya cry' and me in tears haha

The guy at the start with the black Triton, well done, that clips almost gets me every time.

That adorably polite and posh "thank you very much" in the first clip always gets me 😭❤

Thats why sheep are called Wooly JUMPERS and also why we call "sweaters" jumpers as they were all originally made of wool. Whereas yours are apparently made of sweat 😂

You really need to check out Jimmy Rees who has been doing "Meanwhile in Australia" clips which are comical skits about everything happening over here.

Hi Ian, l live in the remote part of the country and thought all city drivers were mad, but this video's shown that there are good people on the roads, cheers mate, Neil.

I'd love to see you react to another one of these, they're great videos and they're uplifting which is what we need in the world these days

That spider on the Blue Ford Falcon was the Huntsman Spider (non venomous just big). And the Sunshine State is Queensland. Cheers, Scotty.

Always makes me proud to see so many Aussies helping each other out and being wholesome. You look after your mates and they'll look after you. And if we're all mates then that makes it true unity ^-^

Yes Coles is a major supermarket here and you did indeed spot the Holden logo at the dealership.

I was told on visit to NYC that Aussies were great never complained and would push the bus on tour if it broke down. I was very happy to hear this.

This is very common here. We all look out for each other. I’m glad you got to see Aussies taking care of Aussies

I'd like to see of these types of videos on youtube. Get tired of the road rage and stupidity (Darwin Award potentials). Cheers for the vid.

I remember when there was severe flooding in my area (extremely rare in wa) and some guy with his off-road modded ranger was towing a hydrolocked civic out of a traffic light intersection. The actual tow truck was stuck in the queue about 300m away but had no way of getting there. Really made my day when i saw it

That's the Aussie way!! Same as when you're in a queue of busy traffic and someone wants to enter from the side road, most Aussies will signal them to move in and then that driver would signal with a type of thank you wave/hand signal. It's just how we were raised.

I've watched a bit of your videos, and you are Awesome, you respect us Australians and understand us.

Love dash cams Aus, the channel that makes me remember to drive safely and better to be late than to speed 😝

You know what mate, I'm grateful that you put the effort in to learn our culture. Every time you paused the vid to point out signs, I was amazed by what u related said sign to the right place of business, even though you've never been here before.. All it takes is some RU-vid videos and a solid aussie community to keep one motivated to learn. Kudo's to u mate! :D

I’m loving all the Aussie slang mate 👍🏻, you’ve been doing your homework 😂🇦🇺👍🏻

This is my favourite DashCam video, which I have watched a number of times already. Watching it with you was even more fun and heart-warming. Thanks Ian, you rock!

One morning I was driving to college in an old Ford Telstar, stuck in peak hour traffic (middle lane, 3 lanes), Gympie rd, Brisbane. Suddenly a huge huntsman spider (large as the span of your hand) crawls accross the windscreen and onto my open drivers side window, onto the top of my seatbelt bracket and thankfully back out the window.....I almost had a accident, panic attack, freaked out completely and to make matters worse, I had to use a set of pliers to wind the window back up as the handle had fallen off....I have arachnophobia ..... scary stuff 😅

The Burger King trademark name was already taken in Australia. So they called it Hungry Jacks. Hungry Jacks tried to purchase the Burger King trademark, but failed. In the late 90s the Burger King trademark expired in Australia. In 2001 Hungry Jacks finally got their Burger King trademark in Australia, but after years attempting to acquire the Burger King name. The fast food company made a surprise decision. They ended up keeping the Hungry Jacks name in Australia because it was already well established. But now they own the Burger King trademark so nobody else could take it.

Completely talked through the 2m python working it's way through traffic 😂

17:07 Drakes Supermarkets, Caltex Woolworths, Target and Nissan Drakes used to be Drakes IGA but they split off to start their own Woolworths-like chain. But that one used to be a Woolworths as Woolworths moved up the road to a new shopping centre they built. Speaking of phasing out, Woolworths sold Caltex Woolworths to Euro Garages and Caltex Australia was fired by Chevron who re-entered the market by buying Puma Energy Australia, so now they are phasing out the Caltexs in favour of AMPOLs (their co-predecessor) and probably EGs.

Wow, that sheep got some major hops. Dude made a great catch. With those skills he could have played cricket, footy, rugby or American Football. "Fair catch", that's one of the best I have ever seen. Then again that is the first time I've seen someone catch a flying sheep. I'm guessing he is a sheep farmer. But he would have been a great fullback or keeper. Wicket keeper or Goalkeeper.

The Sunshine State is Queensland mate , or more commonly known as gods country

I rode motorcycles for many years and suffered a few accidents. Every time, people would rush over to help me and make sure I was alright. If you have ever helped anyone on the road, thank you! Your kindness makes a great difference and is not forgotten.

Sunshine state is Queensland, I was once riding a bike from Sydney to Cairns one time and just as I was crossing the boarder into Queensland there’s a large sign saying welcome to the sunshine state just as it started to rain , not ordinary rain but heavy tropical rain and it didn’t stop for the next four days and nights 😂😂😂😂🐨🦘🇦🇺

Once was leaving a parking complex in Tassie and my Volkswagon Polo decided to shut down on the way out. It was night and a kind stranger came out of nowhere and helped push my car onto the side of the road to avoid disrupting the entrance. It's stuff like that you just don't forget.

In my experience Aussies will always stop to help anyone. Last week I pulled over to take a phone call, 4 cars stopped to ask if I was ok - I live in the mid-north of South Aust and was in the middle of no where!

Queensland is the Sunshine state. The black VW was broken down on Coronation Drive in Brisbane, which is the state capital city. A major road into the CBD. Not where you want to have car trouble.

Another great video, and yes for the better part, Australians will go out of their way to help another. Which as you have said is Great to see in these times. So yes the Sunshine State is Queensland. Coles is a Major Supermarket here in Australia, We all so have Woolworths, Independent Grocers of Australia (IGA) and Aldi, of and Private Grocers as well You are also correct about that being a Holden Dealership, and yes they are becoming Less and less, as the Parent Company in the US said it was too expensive to continue manufacturing the with us being Right-hand Drive. Our Holden Dealership saw the light and is now our Ford Dealership (Plus many more). I also wanted to say I was watching one of the last Mail unboxing, and saw that you got some stuff from Bunnings. These guys are really only new to Australia (possibly last 10 years, maybe longer in the Capital cities) But we also have Mitre 10, Which has been around for a very longtime, I am sure there are others but not out in our Rural Areas, that I have seen. Anyway I hope and Pray that you and your Family are all doing well. I think it really adds that extra personal touch and shows that the whole family are involved and agree whole Heartedly with you and your new experiences with Australia. Keep up the Great Content. Take Care Gordon - NSW

Love seeing Aussie’s being Aussie’s 😝 As a teenager a friend had a car that had to be pushed to start funny enough us girls never had to push 😅 guys would always be jumping out their cars to help us

Great video, IWrocker. You really are showing your knowledge of all things Australian. I think we may have to induct you as an Honorary Aussie soon, mate! Cheers bloke! *salutes*

2:35 that dudes a real legend, if it was me, most i could do is go behind, get out of my car and run to the truck and get in to stop it. He literaly let his ute get real ended, depends on what car u own but if i got real ended, it would probably cost around 10-15k in repairs. 4:10, i live pretty close to that location and that first car probably went to fast and stopped in the middle on the red light so they couldnt go further because that would be running a red light. There was once when there was a huge spider on my car window and just in time i closed the window or it would have crawled in and bit me. Ive seen spiders many times in home even though my house is pretty clean and tidy. 16:14 is the same intersection on 4:10. the sheep takdown was awesome! 17:40, u are correct, that is a coles, holden dearlerships are still open but the company is not making anymore new vehicles. they just service and sell used vehicles. 20:51 the dude who got the ballon is a cop, most likely nsw police

A spider on the roof isn’t too bad, it’s when spidey is hiding on top of your sun visor and decides to drop in your lap when you put the visor down that the trouble starts. It’s not uncommon for huntsman spiders to crawl into your car and hide there, particularly if you’ve parked under a tree.

Made my day :) . Queensland is The Sunshine State. In the vicinity of sheep stations out west, there can be thousands of sheep being shepherded (like) across the road. Roads are often private property so you just have to wait. Cheers.

"Dunno what happened there" He bump-started the bike.

the clip around 13:33 what they did was push-start the bike, its what you do if you have a flat battery, busted ignition or cant kick-start. its easier to do down hill because you roll the bike while its in 1st or 2nd gear with your hand on the clutch and when you pick up enough momentum you let go of the clutch and this cranks your bike over to start it

The Sunshine state bloke looks like he's in Towong Brisbane along the river leading into the city. Very busy multilane road.

In today's nutty world, so happy to see decency is still well and truly alive down under! Stay safe, mate!

Love Dash Cam Aussie..... My swearing is off the charts whilst watching this haha

well said mate us aussies love people like you who love our beautiful country, respect to you

I love the spiel about the community and your videos ❤ Buuuttttt You totally missed the big ass Brown snake slithering on the road at 12:00 another indication you're in Australia 😅

Ambulance vehicles used to be f150 and f250 and also has a few GMC ones. Back in the 80s-90s bbut now they are Mercedes sprinter vans.

Great videos! CARING kind considerate drivers!

You took the words out of my mouth mate. Warms ya heart.

Queensland id the " Sunshine State ". Holden has shut down it's assembly plants and no longer builds cars ,they do however still re-badge imported cars and sell them as Holdens . It seems the name still has that magic Capitalist power , gotta stay on the gravy train Ian.

The clip with the blue ford and the spider crawling on it is my home town Coffs Harbour. Home of The Big Banana.

Sunshine State is Queensland mate, 17:32 Ian the guy is wearing a Bob Jane Tmarts Mount Panorama tracksuit zip top

I love this Dash Cam, I've seen it before and never tire of it! 💕

We call those brightly colored police cars, candy cars.

Aww this was awesome! Makes me proud to be an Aussie ❤️🇦🇺 Also I am impressed by your knowledge of Australian business signage 👍

I'm in a wheelchair, have to say people are incredibly helpful especially in Tasmania... We're good people.

17:07 it is a Holden Dealership, It's Duttons in Murray Bridge, South Australia..

12:10 I hope everyone saw the snake being given right-of-way across the road.

Thanks mate, nice change of pace sitting back and absorbing some wholesomeness! take care.

Queensland is the sunshine state.

You talked right through the clip with the snake on the road 😂😂 Haven’t you ever clutch started a bike or car? Put it in second gear, hold the clutch in, get someone to push you till you get a bit of speed up then drop the clutch to get the car/bike started. Done that a million times in my life lol

you missed the guy that stopped traffic to let the snake cross the road

The cord hanging out of the boot of the Highway Patrol car is the power lead to keep the battery charged up when the car is parked overnight. Old mate forgot to unplug it before heading out for the day haha.

8:48 Burger King and Hungry Jacks did partly coexist originally, until the early 2000s when Burger King attempted to fire Hungry Jacks and lost on grounds of fraud, then Burger King sold their assets to a franchisee then to Hungry Jacks.

I loved this adventure of yours here in Australia we do help out when we can .

12:00 no comment on the giant snake? Not sure if you missed that one Ian.

I love the strength of your knowledge of Australia, pointing out all of the signs etc hah

The premier state is New South Wales.....the Sunshine state is Queensland.....the garden state is Victoria.....Northern Territory is the Outback Territory, The Australian capital territory, is the capital territory, South Australia is the Great southern state....can't remember western Australia tho.....hope that hepls

From the 70's till the early 2000s we had ambulances based of the Ford F150 or F250 platform and around 2005 we moved to the Mercedes sprinter.

Sunshine State is Queensland

Aussie mate ship is the way we live...we help each other, and we don't yell motherxxxxxxx, or eff you at each other. Queensland is the sunshine state. The stalled motor cycle may have had a flat battery and needed a clutch start for it to restart.

Sunshine state is Queensland

Yep, that's the Aussie spirit for ya. Always help your mates, and remember; everyone's a mate. :)

can you please watch Jimmy Rees who has been doing Meanwhile in Australia clips which are comical skits about everything happening over here?

I had a 3inch wide huntsman run out from my motorbike handlebars, then up my arm, then it sat on my back, in between my shoulder blades. Only due to the guy in the car behind me who jumped out and brushed it off was I able to get it off.

Lov you mate

I think we forget there are more good people than bad and it's nice to have a reminder thanks Ian .

It's funny that spider doesn't phase me. You just grow up with it and get used to it here. It happens to me at least twice a year where there is a huntsman in my car. They are pretty much harmless. A bite is not much more serious than a bee sting. Huntsman spiders keep other more venomous spiders away. If I have one inside my house I just leave it be.

Hahaha! The spider was in my home town of Coffs Harbour, glad that’s all there was crawling over the car 🤣🤣

It’s just a Huntsman, but when it walks across your windscreen, it can startle you enough to cause an accident.

This isn’t in a car or anything but when my now teenage kids were small I went grocery shopping with my 6yr old 3yr old and newborn baby. I always had them hold the trolley tight when we were out in the parking lot. But this particular time my baby woke up and started crying at the checkout. And 2 nice firefighters helped unload my trolley at the checkout and then into the trolley and even helped me load them into the boot of my car! I’ve had some rude people being pregnant and having a small baby but this really made me smile. That’s what being an Aussie is all about. Helping people. Being a mate. I love these people on the road helping out other people. 🙂❤️