Surrey man dies after being hit by reality TV Cash Cab

[The Straight Story]

A 61-year-old Surrey man is dead after being struck by a replica taxi, after the vehicle finished production for the television show Cash Cab, in downtown Vancouver late Friday night.

The man was taken to hospital but died shortly after, said VPD spokesman Const. Lindsey Houghton.

“There were no witnesses,” he said, adding that investigation is ongoing and “there is a potential for charges.”

He said the driver of the vehicle remained at the scene of the accident, and the fake taxi is now in possession of investigators.



http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/year+pedestrian+killed+Cash/5114043/story.html

[Tunkamerica]

1. to clarify it was a member of the technical staff driving the car after production

had ceased. The game show wasn't going on.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Although not in the linked article, there's late word that the man's last words were...

..."Hey... isn't that the Cash Cab?!"

[Bluebear]

4. I heard it was "Mobile shout-out, please!"

OK, bad boy.

[Common Sense Party]

3. Cash Cab isn't "reality TV." It's a game show. And a darn entertaining

one at that.

[Bluebear]

5. One of the best!

[ebayfool]

6. Careful now! Someone else posted this & got hit with ...

"And in the meantime the US government spends four hundred fifty seven trillion dollars on a new machine gun. Your point?"

Seems we are expected to make it all politics, all complaining, all the time now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1505762


Smelling the roses or reading news that isn't political is so passe!

[Raine]

7. Yeah we should never enjoy anything or

have any kind of life at all, always go around with long sad faces. :eyes:

[ebayfool]

8. Yup! All angst ... all the time! n/t

[Tunkamerica]

9. you're enjoying a person hit by a car?

[Vinca]

10. What's the Cash Cab doing in Vancouver?

I'm a bad person . . . that was my first thought. It is sad about the pedestrian.