VANCOUVER -- A man was struck and killed Saturday in Vancouver by a replica taxi used in the Canadian version of the game show "Cash Cab," TMZ reported...."Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim and his friends and his family," said Andrew Burnstein, president of "Cash Cab" producers Castlewood Productions. "My heart also goes out to the driver of the vehicle, a member of our technical staff, who is shaken and devastated by this tragic accident, as is our entire team." No charges have been filed yet in the incident. Burnstein said the producer who was driving the vehicle and the rest of the "Cash Cab" production team are cooperating with Vancouver police.
I'm sure the families settlement with Cash Cab will be paid after answering 10 or so fairly simple trivia questions.
Boy, who could have ever seen this one coming? A cab with a flashing disco floor as its ceiling and a driver who's job it is to read questions to his passengers off an in-dash television? Perfectly safe.
Though it is worth pointing out that the American version of Cash Cab has operated in the overly populated streets of Manhattan for a few years without killing anyone, so maybe the cab itself isn't that dangerous, maybe the real problem was putting a Canadian behind the wheel.
