WTF - pics of guy going berserk on female courier at Kensington Market

[diddy321]

Boingboing is linking this now, way to go Toronto!

WTF is wrong with people. This dude apparantly threw a coffee cup out of his car, and she threw it back in. He gets out and goes nuts. What a low life.

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:...ient=firefox-a

* Google cache as main site seems to be overloaded

Totallycrap has the pics and a summary hosted here:

http://www.totallycrap.com/media/motoristvscourier/

[D-Sisive]

what kind of lowlife beats on a female

you can see in one of the pics another guy suckerpunches him though so good for that

so did he throw out a cup of coffee that hit the courier so she threw it back or she picked it up and threw it back in (if the latter, she has some issues too)

[duckdown]

Wheres this magical hardcore suckerpunch?

[frogger]

I only see him beating on her bike.

[duckdown]

No kidding, and that courier looks like a bee hotch.. If she threw some nasty messy coffee cup into my leather interior SUV like they are fighting in front of I'd be pretty ticked off too

[Binden]

if the dude threw the coffee cup and hit her... thats totally what i would do.


If it was cause he was littering or something like that... i would have just handed the cup back to him

[spm24]

read the comments .

the dude littered so the girl threw the garbage back at him . he then threw his coffee on her . she keys up his window and the attack you see was him acting on her keying up his car .

kinda stupid when you think about it if she didnt key his car he wouldnt have done nothing .if she so much cares about the litter she should have thrown it away . not everyone uses garbage cans even though they should ,

[Ojam]

i did not see the beginning of this, but the report goes as follows:
motorist throws food out of window. courier, disliking littering, picks up food and throws food back in car. motorist dumps coffee on courier. courier scratches car with key. road rage ensues.

the courier is female. i 'got away' with taking pics by just doing it openly. nobody noticed me because the focus is obviously on the altercation at hand.

i followed the motorist back to his car to photograph his license plate number. he proceeded to open his trunk, take out a baseball bat, and charge me. i walked away, and was one of only two witnesses to stay at the scene and give a statement to police.

Quote from photographer.

[x86asm]

for some strange reason I can't get to the site. Can anybody post a pic?

[hyperion]

I don't know on who's side to stand on, both did a wrong.

Guy threw his coffee on her...
Chick keyed his car..

[steve.m]

while i am waiting for pics to show up i noticed this:

Hello all! I am the girl in the pics. My name is Leah and although I am a courier, I was WALKING my bike up Agusta when the incident took place. He was driving and opened his door (while driving) and yelling profanities he threw his beef patty on a bun out of his door. I walked over to his car, and right or wrong, I opened the door and "gave" him back his food (which he MUST have dropped by accident!) He then lost it, and jumped out of his car and threw 2 large Timmies at meand then grabbed me by my helmet and tried to toss me around a bit.It was at that point that my bike lock key (that I wear on a bracelet around my wrist) scratched his car. I have read all the postings about people sympathetic to the car driver due to the expense of repairing the scratch but sorry folks, i doubt that it will cost him anything to repair as it was a 1.2cm mark in the clearcoat only(did not damage the paint) but regardless a scratch none the less. Then with some "encouraging" from some helpfull bystanders he got in his car and drove away...or so I thought! People were comming up to me and saying that I should have him charged but at that point I just figured I had made my anti-littering point and and eye for and eye with the coffee shower, I mean I did throw that patty right. But just as I was getting on my bike to ride home he came running back and thats when the photos start. He had driven half a block and decided that the scratch was worthy of a more thorough beating I guess.
Now for a bit of clarity on a couple of things...
The blonde girl is his girlfriend...she also makes a pretty good shield from an angry mob!
I was NOT punching anyone! especially not with keys in my hand! I was just trying to save my bike (I just built it a week ago!!)
And as for the police charging him....
He took off in his car as soon as he heard the sirens....they chased him down but it is not a crime to leave the scene. They were going to charge him with a variety of things including assult with a weapon x2, mischief x2, aggravated assult, etc, but the police informed me that if I went ahead and placed those charges then they would have to charge me with mischeif for the scratch.
So in the interests of good karma (and my own sanity) I have opted to "let it go" and allow the universe to repay this angermanagement case in its own way.
And finally to those who say that i must have had a sudden case of self ritousness in regard to littering.....YOU ARE WRONG! I hate littering and NEVER do> In fact I am constantly picking up litter and make my son pick up litter at the park. I just feel that it is such a fixable issue in the world today. If everyone would not throw their own piece of litter then there would be none!! What a concept eh!?
enjoy the beautiful winter riding!


edit: tried a few times but:

[hyperion]

Ok. Never mind, definetly guy's fault. What a douche. He doesn't deserve a girlfriend that looks like that.

[ledorky]

They were both wrong.
But the dude has some serious issues. If I were the chick, I'd have him charged.

He pays for the damage to the bike (and the fines for littering) and she pays for his car damage.
Oh and the brave little dude is hilarious.

[steve.m]

reading near the last few post I found:

"h00l: 29th Jan 2006 - 23:35 GMT

OK folks. It's time for me to reveal that this whole stunt was an attempt to gauge public reaction
to a hypothetical scenario. I hope that none of you feel that you have been fooled or abused by this
project. Thanks for taking the time to comment."

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When I look at the OP of the pics name it is the same username
eg:
"hool: 26th Jan 2006 - 07:58 GMT

the first few are dark because i was set to manual exposure for a bright shot before this suddenly appeared across the street."

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so is this all BS?

maybe because i am thinking he had pics and could have easily sold them to city tv or the sun and made some money , at least a few hundred dollars for the story if it were real. Also how come the story was not in the media?

this hool is a prick for duping ppl and getting them worked up if the story is fake.


edit2: wait a sec this is confusing I just noticed something in the detail of the hool username. one is spelt h00l and the other is hool. One uses zeros and the other uses o's. So this is not the same username.
oh crap is this story real or fake?

also "They were going to charge him with a variety of things including assult with a weapon x2, mischief x2, aggravated assult...So in the interests of good karma (and my own sanity) I have opted to "let it go" "

she says she decided not to press charges but I know that with serious charges the police will charge you even if the victim does not want to press. how can the police not charge him for weapons charge (ie baseball bat). hmm story smells funny.

[Truth]

The Rick James guy in Kensington would have beaten them both down for stomping on his turf.....