Yesterday in Toronto, taxi drivers staged a mass protest against Uber by forming a blockade at Bay and Queen Streets, one of the city’s busiest intersections, located between the old and new city halls, near the large downtown shopping mall, and just north of the financial district.
One protesting cabbie, while talking to reporters, spotted and UberX car and started to pound against the driver-side window and tried to open the driver’s door. The driver of the car attempted to leave the area, but the cabbie would have none of it — he gasped onto the side of the car, and ended up being dragged a short distance. He finally let go, and it appears that no one was hurt in the incident.
You can watch what happened in the video below:
That cabbie probably sees himself as the taxi analogue to the Tiananmen Square Tank Man, but in the publis’s eyes, he’s more like Grampa Simpson:
I’m probably not the first person to make this observation: this may be the first time I’ve seen someone literally dragged kicking and screaming into the future.
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