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I was just listening to a story on a local radio station in Canada (St.Catherines) about a confrontation between a motorist and a female courier in downtown Toronto. (up there in Lee country wink ) The basic story is that the motorist (in his SUV) threw out a meat pattie (probably a burger right? wink ) from his SUV out on to the street. Where upon seeing this the courier was incensed and grabbed hold of the pattie and opened his door and threw it back into the SUV. There was some altercation between the two and after having this bust up, the motorist must have left and parked his SUV and then went back and confronted the courier again. He tried to stamp on the courier's bike and after the courier's screams for assistance and the motorist was tackled by a few bystanders.

Now the thing is, this was captured by a photographer and was posted on this website http//www.citynoise.org/article/2770 and the site has had over 100,000 hits, and the Toronto Star has done an article too. http//www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1138661412479

It definitely took some gumption by the courier to do that but do you think that throwing the sandwich back into the SUV was going a bit too far? What do you think?
Well , when we used to have Jack and we'd witness people not picking up after their dog, we'd pick up their dogs poop, follow them home and leave it on their doorstep....

Once back in the UK, I was following on my motorcycle behind some guy who threw a cigarette butt out of the window and due to the airflow behind his van, the butt actually went into my helmet (what are the odds eh?), and so I did stop, take it out of my helmet, ride up along side and threw it back into his van...

...then I took off..

Andrew :)
What an ass that guy was and too bad - she should get some civic award or something. Not sure if I'd be quick-thinking enough to do what she did but the thought would definitely cross my mind at some point, if I saw it.

Bet he thinks twice before doing it again which is the whole point of the story I guess.
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