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Old 05-10-08 | 10:42 AM
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Flimflam
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From: Toronto, ON, Canada

Bikes: 70s Leader Precision w/Shimano 600 (road), IRO Rob Roy (Fixed)

Thanks pyze!

Had an interesting altercation with a Beck cab last night - was around 6pm or so, my buddy and I riding together in the curb lane on Danforth, the guy honks us (he was trying to race the gap between traffic and the parked cars) - so I gave chase a little to see what his problem was... He swerved right into me (I had time and backed out) and belted off, my buddy saw this and gave chase himself. Cabbie went into the LTO lane at Coxwell (westbound we were) and then promptly swerved into the straight lane and ran the red light. H ewas stopped at Monarch Park and my buddy barracaded him in while I was on the phone with Beck (turned out the guy was suspended, they advised me to call the police) so as I was calling 54 Div, one of their cars rolled up.

Sadly, one of my other buddies who was behind us caught up and was a bit drunk and spat on the cabbies car - had that not happened, I'm pretty sure the cabbie would've got tickets right there. Was nice and exciting, though.

I let a lot of stuff go on the road, but this guy was blatently causing us trouble - and pretty dangerous trouble, I've never been so viciously swerved into before. The only thing the cops said to us was "don't try and stop cars when you're on a bike - that's crazy" heh.

Cab # 2271 FYI.
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