Se sube encima del coche y el taxista lo pisa

MONTREAL – A taxi driver accused of running over a pedestrian, in a morbid scene circulating on the Internet, was afraid during the incident that he was under attack, his lawyer said Monday.

Four charges were laid Monday against a Montreal cabbie allegedly involved in the incident. Guercy Edmond appeared in court where he was charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, hit-and-run and dangerous driving.

The 47-year-old taxi driver talked quietly with his lawyer, Yves Vaillancourt, who said his client had been certain he would be released Monday. To his surprise, the court ordered that Edmond remain in custody until his bail hearing Wednesday.

"He seemed to act more like a victim than an accused," Vaillancourt later told reporters.

"For him, he was under attack – that's about the only thing he told me," Vaillancourt said.

"I asked him what he was accused of and to that he replied: 'I was attacked.' He did not say, 'I hit something.' He said, 'I was attacked."'

Videos posted on the Internet show a taxi driver involved in a late-night weekend dispute with several people – and then show the cabbie's vehicle running over one of the pedestrians.

The 23-year-old pedestrian is in hospital with serious – but not life-threatening – injuries.

One video posted to YouTube shows the conflict escalating, with a group of men kicking at a car and one man jumping on its roof. Moments later, the vehicle drives right over one of the men. The car then darts away, down the street.

Edmond's friends and family came to the courthouse to show their support during his brief appearance Monday. One man, who described himself as a close family friend of the driver, expressed sadness for everyone involved in the events that occurred early Sunday morning.

"The incident is unfortunate and my whole heart is with the family," Steven Joseph told reporters.

"I'm deeply sorry for the victim," Joseph added. "It's very sad, very sad."

The accused was also getting sympathy from the community of cabbies.

Archulus Mamu, a 57-year-old taxi driver, said he didn't think his peer would have deliberately run someone over. Mamu, who has been driving a taxi in Montreal for 12 years, said he has also had trouble in the past with customers who would get aggressive.

"When it happened to me I just took off and it ends there," he said. "We can't report things to the police because it takes time for them to come."

Karl Hofbauer, a cabbie for 54 years, said he has never worked during the wee hours, like when the weekend incident took place.

"You never know what you can expect at four o'clock (in the morning)," he said while waiting for a fare outside the Montreal courthouse.

"I think (Edmond) got scared because he was only one person and they were more," Hofbauer said. "I feel sorry for him, that's for sure."
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Guys this incident happened in downtown Montreal last night. I'll translate it here for you guys.

At first the guy with the camera was laughing that the car was so damaged from the guy (who was eventually ran over) jumping on the front of it. Then he asked the guy if it was him who did that and another guy from the side stepped in saying that it wasn't that guy and that the car had actally flew into the wall, that the guy driving the car charged into the wall. Then the guy with the camera starts telling the guy who eventually got ran over to get up and start jumping on the car. Then the guy behind the camera starts laughing and saying to himself that that guy is crazy. Then the guy jumped up on top of the car and the guy with the camera was dying laughing to himself saying "check that out he's crazy, he's crazy jumping on the car". Once the car turned and ran the guy over the cameraman changed his tune and started freaking out saying "oh, oh, you ok, you ok? What happened, what happened here?" Then he kept asking the guy if was ok over and over. Then the guy with the camera looks up in the direction of the car speeding away and says "he's crazy, man". Then the guy with the camera again says "you ok, man?"...."You're not ok, are you?". Then you can hear bystanders on the side saying "call 911" then the cameraman and people out of the screen start telling him "don't move, don't move" and then they told him "let him breath, let him breath!" Then you can hear them on the phone yelling to the 911 operator the location of where they are. They're telling the operator the corner of the two streets they're on in downtown Montreal. Then the cameraman yells to whoever is on the phone to tell 911 that he's been completey ran over. Then from the side you can hear an english girl say "keep him awake". Then everyone just keeps telling him "don't move" and to keep breathing and then the footage cuts.[/QUOTE] ahh thanks i saw it was french but i knew it sounded gayer than normal thats why , canadian french is actually gayer than standard french - what a gay language.