Here's another video at a different angle with a much better view, and a bit of commentary (not graphic) This happened on St Laurent st, Montreal; the clubbing district I believe; so they're also drunk probably lolz. I was actually in Montreal the weekend this happened- kinda wish I was there, but not really.
But yeah, I'm on the cab driver's side for this type of shenanigan.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:47 am
by Tasdik
And for those of you wondering, thats Car - 1. Crazy guy who tried to get in a fight with the car - 0.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:50 am
by Mirosuke
JACKPOT! He hit the right guy isn't? Well, nice. Hate to see those kind of stuff but, get your own medicine... even stronger.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:10 am
by Gaigemasta
well fuck, I'm planning to go see majorharper this summer, which he lives close to Montreal, lol I'll be careful
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:34 am
by Tasdik
Gaige, if you get killed by a crazed taxi driver, dibs on your avatar. And internet speed. *is jelly*
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:34 am
by Skyve
Car drivers in general don't give a **** in Montreal.
After living my first 13 years in Montreal; Jaywalking Skill : Level 99.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:48 am
by Tasdik
Skyve wrote:Car drivers in general don't give a **** in Montreal.
After living my first 13 years in Montreal; Jaywalking Skill : Level 99.
I knew you were too young. This means I'll have some explaining to do with the local law enforcement tomorrow...
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:02 am
by Skyve
Tasdik wrote:
Skyve wrote:Car drivers in general don't give a **** in Montreal.
After living my first 13 years in Montreal; Jaywalking Skill : Level 99.
I knew you were too young. This means I'll have some explaining to do with the local law enforcement tomorrow...
I've moved away, 4000 km away. Away from you, from your grasp.
I won't let you interfere in my new life. This one will remain untouched.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:08 am
by penfold1992
the problem is... the cab driver will be punished for hit and run regardless of what happened...
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:34 am
by woutR
Is it still a hit and run if people are kicking your door and jumping on your roof? Isn't self defense applicable here?
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 10:59 am
by Majorharper
The cab driver has been granted the right to work again just not in that area ill explain more when i get the chance going to school now. And gaige ill take you to the mafia
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 1:42 pm
by CrimsonNuker
I swear all drivers in Montreal have balls of steel.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:25 pm
by I Am Vegeta
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:11 pm
by *BlackFox
OMFG The taxi driver was clearly... trying to use his car as a weapon.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:51 pm
by jyushinshuu
what's the story behind all this? The way I see it, the cab driver was just trying to get himself to safety, those guys think they are concrete walls. Are they speaking french or something?
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:38 pm
by *BlackFox
jyushinshuu wrote:what's the story behind all this?
MONTREAL—A grotesque scene captured on video early Sunday of a taxicab running over a young man in Montreal has led to charges being laid against the driver.
The driver appeared in court Monday afternoon while the 23-year-old victim, who is in stable condition in hospital, could also be charged, along with another man, police said.
The video shows a taxicab driving wildly while a group of young men violently attacks the vehicle.
The incident happened before 4 a.m. Sunday in Montreal’s Plateau-Mont Royal borough, when an argument broke out between the cab driver and his clients.
If the commentary by the person filming from a nearby building is to be believed, the conflict began when one of the men slammed the taxi door too hard.
The video begins with the car, a Toyota Camry, making a circle as the 23-year-old man kicks the driver’s side door. The arguing escalates and harsh words are exchanged. Someone throws what appears to be a broken piece of the vehicle at the cab’s back window. Other people enter the scene and begin to argue with the driver.
The young man then kicks the driver’s side door again, twice. The cabbie reverses, and the man kicks the door again. The driver then moves forward aggressively, narrowly missing some of the people assembled. “He’s sick,” someone can be heard saying.
A different man in a white baseball cap kicks the passenger door, pounds on the trunk and then hops on to and stomps on the roof and windshield.
It’s at this point that the 23-year-old, positioned at the front of the car, is hit and thrown to the ground as the cab hits the accelerator. Both the front and the back of the car can be seen to bounce as the tires roll over his body.
The cabbie does not stop. He continues to flee the scene.
Guercy Edmond appeared in court where he was charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, hit-and-run and dangerous driving. The 47-year-old taxi driver will remain in prison until his bail hearing on Wednesday.
Another 42-year-old man has been released from custody on a promise to appear should police decide to charge him.
The young man in hospital could also face charges, said Const. Raphaël Bergeron of the Montreal Police Service.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:47 pm
by Skyve
jyushinshuu wrote:what's the story behind all this? The way I see it, the cab driver was just trying to get himself to safety, those guys think they are concrete walls. Are they speaking french or something?
Yeah they're speaking french (Montreal).
Thing is, I still think running over someone is overkill for "self-defense".
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:08 pm
by Majorharper
You think he knew he was running over him? In panic mode anything is doable, would you rather get your face punched like no tomorrow or running away?
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:46 pm
by Swindler
GTA irl
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:49 pm
by Skyve
Majorharper wrote:You think he knew he was running over him? In panic mode anything is doable, would you rather get your face punched like no tomorrow or running away?
Yes he did. You're gonna tell me he didn't think of the consequences of pressing down on the pedal when you have so many people around your car?
Even a punch in the game wouldn't justify running over someone.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:08 pm
by *BlackFox
Skyve wrote:Even a punch in the game wouldn't justify running over someone.
Indeed! Seriously, what the taxi driver did "was clearly NOT self defense" And he could have easily driven away.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:25 pm
by Majorharper
I'd like to see your reaction when you got a baboon jumping on your windshield and smashing your car windows, i'll film you while its happening... Come on guys you're being stupid, the 3 drunk guys (including the camera man) had been racially insulting the black taxi driver before the event. I seriously hope the guy is OK but too fucking bad for jumping on a car. Never mess with big metal shit. Never.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:22 pm
by Shomari
so this guy runs his 1,000 kg car on top of some guy. Unless he is literally hitler I see no reason to farking run somebody over.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 10:09 pm
by cpinney
Yes because telling some people who are smashing on your car to please move will totally work. The driver had every right to do everything in his power to got out of that violent situation, and if one of the idiots was in the middle of the Farking street and got hit, sucks to be him, don't be in the middle of the Farking street trying to attack someone in their car.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 12:55 am
by Skyve
Majorharper wrote:I'd like to see your reaction when you got a baboon jumping on your windshield and smashing your car windows, i'll film you while its happening... Come on guys you're being stupid, the 3 drunk guys (including the camera man) had been racially insulting the black taxi driver before the event. I seriously hope the guy is OK but too fucking bad for jumping on a car. Never mess with big metal shit. Never.
Kk no.
No point in arguing furthermore if you're oblivious to the fact that running him over was overkill. In this situation I would of do anything but run him over. Worst case scenario I'd put up a fight. And when did they say any racial slurs? (I speak french fluently)
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 1:11 am
by Majorharper
Before the video, read the whole article
Oh and edit: they were 3 drunk guys, you would really put up a fight against 3 people?
double edit: I watched the video again, did you see how many people were surrounding the taxi? He would have been beat (not to death but close). It was a stupid fucking drunk idiot who thought he was god.
That put him in his place, and serves the others as a life lesson.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 1:17 am
by Shomari
cpinney wrote:Yes because telling some people who are smashing on your car to please move will totally work. The driver had every right to do everything in his power to got out of that violent situation, and if one of the idiots was in the middle of the Farking street and got hit, sucks to be him, don't be in the middle of the Farking street trying to attack someone in their car.
implying that the only option was to run somebody over. I honestly don't know why he didn't just drive away at first. I'm guessing cuz he stupid and felt compelled to continue aruging and then it escalated and the taxi driver went ape-shit stupid and purposely ran the poor SOB over. It was 100% possible to just drive away without running any of those tools over.
I wouldn't really call that a violent situation. at least not directly for the taxi driver. Maybe I would if the car had feelings. I don't think the guy jumping on the car was the hulk posing a huge threat to the driver. At most the car would be heavily dented.
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 2:44 am
by Majorharper
Shomari wrote:
cpinney wrote:Yes because telling some people who are smashing on your car to please move will totally work. The driver had every right to do everything in his power to got out of that violent situation, and if one of the idiots was in the middle of the Farking street and got hit, sucks to be him, don't be in the middle of the Farking street trying to attack someone in their car.
implying that the only option was to run somebody over. I honestly don't know why he didn't just drive away at first. I'm guessing cuz he stupid and felt compelled to continue aruging and then it escalated and the taxi driver went ape-shit stupid and purposely ran the poor SOB over. It was 100% possible to just drive away without running any of those tools over.
I wouldn't really call that a violent situation. at least not directly for the taxi driver. Maybe I would if the car had feelings. I don't think the guy jumping on the car was the hulk posing a huge threat to the driver. At most the car would be heavily dented.
Ya but 15 people flipping the car over is possible, dont need 15 people either...
Re: In Canada, cab drivers just don't give a fck.
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 2:49 am
by Shomari
Majorharper wrote:
Shomari wrote:
cpinney wrote:Yes because telling some people who are smashing on your car to please move will totally work. The driver had every right to do everything in his power to got out of that violent situation, and if one of the idiots was in the middle of the Farking street and got hit, sucks to be him, don't be in the middle of the Farking street trying to attack someone in their car.
implying that the only option was to run somebody over. I honestly don't know why he didn't just drive away at first. I'm guessing cuz he stupid and felt compelled to continue aruging and then it escalated and the taxi driver went ape-shit stupid and purposely ran the poor SOB over. It was 100% possible to just drive away without running any of those tools over.
I wouldn't really call that a violent situation. at least not directly for the taxi driver. Maybe I would if the car had feelings. I don't think the guy jumping on the car was the hulk posing a huge threat to the driver. At most the car would be heavily dented.
Ya but 15 people flipping the car over is possible, dont need 15 people either...
This one will remain untouched.