'Cash Cab' strikes, kills pedestrian in Vancouver

[Judi Lynn]

'Cash Cab' strikes, kills pedestrian in Vancouver
TV game-show taxi knocks down 61-year-old Canadian after filming
msnbc.com
updated 1 hour 0 minutes ago 2011-07-17T00:57:57

-VANCOUVER, Canada — The production company for a TV game-show filmed inside a fake taxi offered condolences Saturday after its vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian, The Canadian Press news agency reported.

Andrew Burnstein, president of Vancouver-based Castlewood Productions Inc., said the team with Discovery Channel's "Cash Cab" sends thoughts and prayers to the 61-year-old victim from Surrey, B.C., and his family.

Vancouver Police said the unidentified man died of injuries suffered when he was struck just before midnight in the Downtown Eastside. The victim's name is not being released at the request of the family, police said.

No charges have been filed but the incident remains under investigation.

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[krawhitham]

1. The Canadian version of Cash Cab

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. And in the meantime the US government spends four hundred fifty seven trillion dollars

on a new machine gun.

Your point?

[ebayfool]

4. Does there have to be a point? Really?

And what does the price of machine guns have to do with what the op posted?

Your point?

[Raine]

5. Point? I don't understand your point

what does a Canadian pedestrian being run over have to do with the price of machine guns. :shrug:

[demosincebirth]

3. I guess he was too busy handing out cash.

[provis99]

6. oh, we killed some one? Sorry!