Did anyone see the lead story on CBS news in NY at 11:00pm? It was a story about a MINI involved in a road rage incident and had video of a MINI driving down a NY street with someone hanging on to the windshield for dear life. Unfortunately, my TIVO turned off just when they were explaining what happened.

 

Oh no!! Hadn't heard about this incident yet. UGH!


Clover

 

ROFL

Either:
1. MINI got stolen and MINI owner was like "YOU AINT TAKIN THIS MINI PUNK."

or

2. MINI owner was driving, after trying to run down the attempted car jacker for trying to steal their MINI.

 

http://www.cbsnewyork.com/

Click the link under CBS 2 Video titled:
"A traffic dispute turns into road rage, all caught on tape. Lou Young reports."

According to the report the police arrested the driver of the MINI. His name is Salvador Caruso.

 

Any link to just a story? I couldn't find one on that page and that windows media BS never works for me.

 

this is why they need to interview people who want a Mini....there should be a process to eliminate guys like that

 

good thing it was an S.... he had a nice hand grip there!!!

 

Ah yes, remember you're adopting the car and need to be pre-qualified for M.O.D. prior to taking ownership of a MINI.

 

Here's the link, but not the link to the video clip itself since this stuff is normally protected from downloading.

http://wcbs.dayport.com/launcher/205...Category_ID=48

 

That dude is a idiot, but he's got a pretty good looking car.

 

But did you see how easily that MINI maneuvered through the jammed up traffic and out into the open street!

 

Nucking Futs man, nucking futs. Poor MINI is in the impound now...., no more motorin for awhile.

 

Ok I'm kinda slow, and I'm still trying to figure out what happened. The guy that was hanging on (call him Hang Man) to the MINI was trying to keep the guy in the MINI(Call him Convict MINI) from fleeing.

So Hang Man was in the taxi cab first, some angry people came and started attacking the cab he just got in.

The reporter says that Hang Man got out of the car to confront this Angry guy and said he would call the police.

One of those angry people was the Convict MINI and drove off while Hang Man held on for dear life.

Cabbie got the license plate and another bystander happened to have a video camera rolling to catch the whole thing?

Hang Man was the hero with only a few minor scrapes. It didn't appear that the MINI was going very fast.

Hmmmmm, kinda looks like a MINIUSA guerilla marketing stunt to me.

 

Slava and Salva .... Hmmmmmmmmm ... Sounds like brothers to me

 

I also saw a commercial last night that was selling a video to teach you how to spot a 'fake' MINI. It did feel like a Batboy item. Here's a link http://mini.tmp.com/merchant.mv

 

I never could get the video to play. Maybe to many MINI owner wanting to see it crashed the site.

 

I still dont get it.

Quite frankly, if some lunatic grabbed my MINI, I would get out and smash him. If I know I can't smash him, I dont want him pulling on my car, so I'm on the gas outta there.

I am not saying the MINI guy didn't do anything wrong, all I'm saying is we don't know the whole story. The guy grabbing the MINI could have been the loonie too.

 

classic case of MINI abuse. Its sad to see that a bad driver was put behind the wheel of such a great car. But his car was good looking indeed, darrk silver all the way!

 

The lunatic got in the cab. The MINI owner was angry with the cabbie (reason unclear ) and got out and kicked the doors of the cab . The lunatic got out and confronted the MINI owner , who tried to drive away. The lunatic grabbed onto the MINI to try and hold him for the police , and got dragged down the street.

The wicked police arrested the innocent MINI owner, and let the evil lunatic go free.

 

Watching the video, did you notice how the cab had backed up when the
"good samaritan" jumped out, probably almost striking the MINI. This would tend to upset someone. I am still trying to figure out what that guy was holding onto. Another excuse to polish the car - to allow whackos to slide off the bonnet smoothly. I am sure that if you ask the cabbie what happened,(who mysteriously was not interviewed), he'll say he was "just minding my own business, when all of the sudden - for no apparant reason....." This is usually how SUV drivers start their tale of roadrage when they cut someone off and wonder why the other guy's so mad!

The best part of the whole clip is the commercial at the begining:
"People do stupid things."

 

he was hanging on to the inlet scoop for the s/c intercooler.... that's why I said he was lucky it was an S

 

If the MINI driver was arrested for kicking the cab, the other guy should
be arrested for damaging the MINI by jumping onto it. I'm sure it got scratched somewhere. Criminal damage is criminal damage. Plus add a
charge of aggravated stupidness and impersonating a superhero. :smile:

 

Grr looks like my web proxy is preventing me from viewing the video. Anyone find it on another site?

 

The mini driver should have either accelerated to warp speed, (and if the creature hadnt flown off)he then should have slammed on the brakes-hard
Nobody is going to touch my MINI, or anyone elses.

 

Maybe I am wrong but two wrongs don't make a right. If I were the MINI driver and I kicked a cab (or whatever) and then someone came after me. First it is stupid to go after someone that is that in-raged (making the situation worse). And second If someone came up to my car (and I am as pissed off as that MINI driver was)...well things would not be pretty. It is not that I am justifing what the MINI driver did but it was a stupid move on hanging guys part to escalate the situation and put his life in danger. We have all had road incidents that have made our blood boil but it is not worth it to lose life or limb to prove who's got the bigger NUTZ.