Blackhawks' Kane busted for robbing, assaulting cabbie

[wgauci]

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/stor...-arrested.html

All the hassle he's going to go through now for $15. Silly Boy.

[spensar]

Actually the issue was over $.20. The cabbie could only give him $1 instead of $1.20 back in change. That was without any tip as well.

Kane's new nickname - 20 cents!

[smootherator]

These guys are making millions ....just makes no sense...did he think he was on the ice? lol

[DSgamby]

There is more to the story than that.

Some interesting quotes from the cabbie's lawyer downplaying the whole event.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2...blown-out.html

"It's pretty much been blown out of proportion," LoTempio told WGN. "It's a dispute over the cab fee and unfortunately Mr. Radecki didn't recognize Mr. Kane and just thought they were a couple of college kids."

So he's saying it would have been alright if he recognized him?

"Some of the cab drivers here have a policy of not unlocking the doors until they get paid because they get beat on their fees by the college kids and that just kind of blew up."

This one has me puzzled quite a bit. Why would the lawyer be mentioning this at all if the whole incident was just about the 0.20 cents. Could it be there's more to this, such as the cabbie refusing to let them out which resulted in the altercation?

LoTempio added that he believed the charges would "absolutely not" rise to the level of a felony, calling it a "regular kid incident." The lawyer also said, "I think we should be able to work things out" with Kane.

The obvious quote of looking for a nice pay day now since he's a celeb.


"Incident is overblown"
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=4389932

More details
http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/news/story?id=4391488

the cab driver didn't even have a valid license.

[jayoldschool]

Did you see the video of the cabbie? He had some pretty good bruising/lacerations on his face and neck. Apparently one of them was choking the driver while one punched him in the face...

[DSgamby]

Then explain how the victim's lawyer is downplaying the whole incident?

[jayoldschool]

To keep it out of the media while the negotiate a big settlement?

[DSgamby]

or they know that the driver left out some important info or the timeline is wrong. We don't know the whole story

[haystack]

Then explain how the victim's lawyer is downplaying the whole incident?

Kane's agent, Pat Brisson, said. "The cab driver's attorney in recent media reports was quoted as saying that the incident has been blown out of proportion

[DSgamby]

Radecki's lawyer, Andrew LoTempio, said on WGN radio on Monday that he didn't believe the case would end up as a felony, and that the incident had been blown out of proportion.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/news/story?id=4391488

The driver's attorney, backpedaling on his client's accusations a day before, said the incident had been "blown out of proportion

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2...blown-out.html

[haystack]

Sounded to me like the cabby's lawyer only indicated the robbery portion of the charges filed may be "overblown" but did not back down on the statement his client filed that led to Buffalo police laying assault charges.
Robbery is a felony and a convection would more than likely keep him out of Canada

[DSgamby]

it sounded to me like the whole incident is overblown. Like I said, we don`t know what really happened.

Robbery for 20 cents is felony and can`t get into Canada
Beating the crap out of a guy is not and can get into Canada

something is wrong there

[HT gearhead]

In this country monetary crimes are almost always treated harsher than assaults on your fellow human being.

[vmpv]

"Money Talks"