Sunday, August 27, 2006
A Brush With Death
Sort of. Well, I got a big scare anyway, but didn't get hurt. Last night at Marc's bachelor party (good time, btw!) we had to hail a cab to head back home. Ivan called down one and was trying to talk the driver into letting all 6 of us get in. No question, that's over capacity and cabbies shouldn't be letting people do it, but Ivan tried anyway. Now, I had the rear passenger door open while this conversation was going on, and I couldn't hear it too well. But I did hear Ivan say, "Ok, let's get in". I put my foot inside and that's when the cabbie decided to floor it. I mean, he just shot off like a jet. So I'm bouncing alongside the cab with my foot stuck in it, scared that I might get thrown under the car. I was stuck for about 2-3 seconds (but it seemed longer) and luckily nothing happened except my heart rate going up as I was able to push myself away from the cab. I know cabbies don't have the best job and they have to talk to a lot of drunken, irate people over the course of a shift, but there's no need to put someone's life at stake over it.
# posted by SBP : 4:31 PM
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Holly COW! Glad you made it out of that one. Were you left standing there by yourself? What happend next?
# posted by 
: 10:09 PM, August 27, 2006
: 10:09 PM, August 27, 2006
Sorry Ben glad nothing happened and I wish he would have been stuck in traffic at that light...I contemplated running after him but he was gone when he got around that corner.
# posted by : 8:50 AM, August 28, 2006
: 8:50 AM, August 28, 2006
Yikes. Glad to hear you're OK pal.
Sounds like a crazy action/stunt scene with you in the leading role. All that's missing is Van Damme or Seagal to the rescue followed by a fully throttled cab driver.
Sounds like a crazy action/stunt scene with you in the leading role. All that's missing is Van Damme or Seagal to the rescue followed by a fully throttled cab driver.
# posted by : 2:04 PM, August 28, 2006
: 2:04 PM, August 28, 2006
At the end of it, the guys came up to me to see if I was ok, I was just beside the curb on the road and there weren't too many cars around (it was about 3:30am).
I think the cab company was Blue Line, from memory they were the same ones that had that accident last year where a girl got dragged under one of their cabs in Kanata and died.
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I think the cab company was Blue Line, from memory they were the same ones that had that accident last year where a girl got dragged under one of their cabs in Kanata and died.
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