Posted on 11/24/2020 4:16:21 PM PST by simpson96
A Queens parking spot dispute exploded into a wild road rage rampage, with one driver sucker-punching the other before crashing his car through the glass storefront of a newly-opened bakery, police said Tuesday.
An enraged Jie Zou jumped from behind the wheel of his white Audi as another vehicle angled for the coveted space, slugging the other driver in the face before ruining the grand opening of the Rainbow Bakery by plowing his vehicle six feet inside the fledgling business, cops said.
Terrifying cellphone video captured Zou making a U-turn and slamming his car into his rival, who went bouncing off the Audi’s hood as the car accelerated across four lanes of traffic and through the glass — with one terrified customer exiting through the rubble while another lies dazed on the sidewalk.
Zou’s bat-wielding passenger, Jonathan Zhang, whacked in the arm a 34-year-old man defending the other driver in the 3:55 p.m. ruckus. The rival driver, identified as Zong Li, 35, of Belford, N.J., at one point managed to wrest the bat away and smashed it against the Audi’s hood before he was nearly run down, the video shows.(snip)
Once the punching ended, cops say, Zou climbed back into his car and hit the gas, hitting Li before jumping the curb and crashing into the bakery.(snip)
“It’s just for a parking space,” said devastated bakery owner John Lo as he stood Tuesday in the wreckage. “It’s like a movie, right?”
Lo, who hopes to reopen in a month, returned to survey a business reduced to shattered glass and twisted metal. The ruined store is now shuttered with a metal grate pulled down over its front.
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Mask on, fedora pulled down...and texting on the phone on her lap! Drifting all over the lanes is no longer a sign of drunk. It’s usually a sign of texting or emailing or finding new music or .... or ....
LOL...GREAT pic sequence!
Sorry, Dad!
One of our younger male relatives in his early 50’s is one of the least racist people we know.
However, after riding bikes in Portland and the SF Bay area for decades, he is a firm believer in DWA.
He got an early inheritance of an OJ Simpson Bronco. He puts a bike in the back rack, then he drives a couple of miles to work. If the weather is good, he will drive the Bronco to private roads to ride his bike, during lunch hour or after work in the DST months.
After the ride during DST, he puts his bike in the Bronco rack and then drives home.
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