Cabbie plows into crowd outside nightclub; mob attacks driver - Polidicks

[release]Nearly two dozen club hoppers were injured after an out-of-control cabbie plowed into a crowd outside a San Diego nightclub after closing time early Saturday, cops said. Police said the cabbie told them that he blacked out before veering off the road and crashing into the Singaree club in San Diego's trendy Gaslamp district. Fire officials said 23 people were taken to the hospital and one woman had to have her leg amputated below the knee after the car pinned her against a wall. Dozens more suffered scrapes and bruises, including the cabbie, who was attacked by an angry mob after the crash and suffered a broken nose, police said. Clubgoers said it was typical for people to hang out outside the club after closing time, but the scene quickly became chaotic after the taxi jumped the curb and rolled over people. "We saw a girl crying and we saw a female with a tooth missing, bloodied up and crying," clubhopper Jerel Duncan told San Diego's KSWB-TV. "We were like, what's going on? It was just hysteria, crazy and then we saw the actual cab on the curb." Police said the 48-year-old driver, who was not named, may have fallen asleep. They don’t think alcohol was a factor. More than 60 cops, medics and firefighters arrived at the scene, which had erupted into a late night melee. As many as 100 people swarmed the area after the crash, police said, and an angry mob pounded on the cab and dragged the dazed driver out of the car when he tried to back his vehicle away from the building. Stingaree owner James Brennan told the San Diego Union-Tribune that during the scuffle, the frightened driver grabbed a pair of scissors and swung them at one of the club managers. San Diego Police spokesman Lt. Todd Jarvis told the Tribune the cabbie was going about 15 mph at the time of the crash. At one point, crews had to clear victims from the scene after officers spotted what they thought could be a bomb inside the taxi. Jarvis told the Tribune that officers were concerned when they saw a bag with wires coming out of it on the seat of the taxi, but it turned out to be a massager. Investigators said they were treating the incident as an accident and had not pressed charges against the driver. The club was reopened on Saturday night. [img]http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/02/14/alg_san_diego_cab_crash.jpg[/img] [url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/02/13/2011-02-13_dozens_injured_after_cabbie_plows_into_crowd_outside_nightclub_mob_attacks_black.html#ixzz1Dslo1hpB]Saucy Sauce McSauce[/url][/release] In before hilarious GTA pun.

I bet that really [I]wrecked[/I] his night. :suicide:

That actually sucks a lot for the girl who got amputated, everyone else was lucky, but...her life will never be the same.

[QUOTE=Tetracycline;28036549]That actually sucks a lot for the girl who got amputated, everyone else was lucky, but...her life will never be the same.[/QUOTE] One moment she was dancing and the next she was missing a leg.

[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cEMtoJanH-g/TKIovuh3H9I/AAAAAAAAAZM/YDUTwkJy43k/s1600/taxi_driver.jpg[/img] He just got distracted staring at a pretty lady across the street.

I guess you can say, he crashed the party.

[QUOTE=MasterG;28036783]ITT: People make puns about a travesty which caused a girl to become an amputee.[/QUOTE] People have made puns about things far more disturbing. Such is life in forums.

[QUOTE=MasterG;28037043]I guess, i just expected a little more compassion. 4chan this ain't[/QUOTE] Facepunch isn't a charity.

[QUOTE=MasterG;28037043]I guess, i just expected a little more compassion. 4chan this ain't[/QUOTE] Welp, you know anon is fucked when they're supposed to be compassionate.

I guess everyone hailed the same taxi, he must have gotten confused.

Puns keep depressing news like this from making me sad.

[QUOTE=MasterG;28036783]ITT: People make puns about a travesty which caused a girl to become an amputee.[/QUOTE] have you never been in this section before

The driver was planning to go to a club, meet a nice girl and sweep her off her feet.

[QUOTE=MasterG;28036783]ITT: People make puns about a travesty which caused a girl to become an amputee.[/QUOTE] not ITT: artificial compassion

[QUOTE=^-^;28037159]Welp, you know anon is fucked when they're supposed to be compassionate.[/QUOTE] meanwhile in /b/... [quote=Anonymous]Check em'[/quote] ... Life goes on.

I bet they had a [i]smashing[/i] night

[QUOTE=MasterG;28037143]I just feel kind of bad for everyone involved. The girl having to live with her totally new life, anguishing and tormented by the crises of what could have been; had she not gone out that night, had she been a little more sober and jumped out of the way more quickly. And then there's the driver, tortured by the thought that he may have drastically saddened the life of a girl through his own, arguably unavoidable, problems, driving him slowly to a state of sobered madness in which his own thoughts seem to accuse him of forever destroying what semblance of a life the meaningless denizons of the night, more specifically one girl, had left in them before they were cast off the mortal coil by their own strange, unavoidable and irrational mortality. That's what I mean by it being sad :smithicide:[/QUOTE] smoke some weed and you'll feel better son :2bong:

Well I wouldn't said this is the best example of breaking a leg, but it seems like he had a rather smashing time.