'They have the right to be safe': Taxi drivers left shaken after woman smashed windshield
CTV
A widely shared video showing a woman jumping on top of a taxi cab and smashing through its front windshield has raised concerns for taxi drivers in Winnipeg who say violent incidents are becoming all too common for drivers in the city.
A widely shared video showing a woman jumping on top of a taxi cab and smashing through its front windshield has raised concerns for taxi drivers in Winnipeg who say violent incidents are becoming all too common for drivers in the city.
"Drivers, they are really frightened from this scenario," Gagandeep Brar, the general manager of Unicity Taxi in Winnipeg, told CTV News.
Brar said the incident happened on Sunday morning when a Unicity driver picked up some people who had requested a trip to the Tim Hortons on Maryland Street.
He said while the passengers were ordering in the drive-thru, a woman came up to the cab and tried to jump inside. When the driver and the passengers asked her to leave, Brar said she stood in front of the taxi, blocking its exit and then climbed up on top of it.
"This frightened the driver, the driver left the car," Brar said. "She just kicked very hard on the windshield and broke the windshield."
Brar said that is when the driver started recording what was happening.
The video – since shared across social media – shows the woman jumping and dancing on the roof of the taxi. She then is seen stomping through the windshield and climbing inside, where Brar said she ripped equipment from the dashboard of the taxi.
