Macquarie Centre carpark: Dashcam catches man throwing himself onto car bonnet over parking row

Dashcam footage has captured the unusual way a frustrated shopper showed his anger towards another driver during the pre-Christmas rush.

The motorist was navigating the chaotic underground carpark at the Macquarie Centre, in Sydney’s northwest, on Sunday after 4pm. 

The shopping centre is one of the biggest in Australia and would have been packed just one week before Christmas. Australians are expected to spend $66 billion over the festive season this year despite the cost-of-living crisis.

The video showed the driver waiting for another car to exit when man wearing a navy polo shirt and thick black glasses quickly appeared on the right of the screen, looking furious with the dashcam driver.   

‘The bloke got mad because I didn’t let his wife through when he had to give way to me in Macquarie car park,’ the video poster wrote. 

The man (pictured) suddenly appeared from the right of the screen in a move captured on a dash cam

‘So he decides to jump out of the backseat and ragdoll on top of my car.’

The video showed the man flopping onto the car bonnet as it moved slowly towards the exit.

He then quickly got up – maybe satisfied that he had made his point – gave a glance into the car and walked back in the direction he had come from, presumably rejoining his wife. 

The very strange video ended there, leaving commenters keen to find out more. 

‘What did he want to achieve?’ asked one, speaking for many. 

Another answered that, saying he ‘probably tried to claim for injury insurance’.

Others pointed out that such a claim was unlikely to succeed due to the video.

‘Lucky you got a dash cam, best insurance ever,’ a viewer wrote. 

‘Oh, he wouldn’t even know this footage exists until we met again in a courtroom,’ the video poster replied.  

He flopped ‘like a ragdoll’ onto the car bonnet (pictured) as it moved very slowly towards the exit

One watcher used it to make a reference to football players sometimes feigning injuries, asking ‘Does he play soccer?’

Some posters expressed concern for the health of the car bonnet flopper, or the car. 

And some were concerned about both, such as the viewer wrote that ‘People like that never learn until they die. I hope your car is OK.’

One watcher used what happened to make a reference to football players sometimes feigning injuries, asking ‘Does he play soccer?’

Others thought the short clip was not the end of what happened. ‘Hmmm … me thinks there is more to this story,’ said one.