Only in New York. Well, maybe just The Bronx.
A violent fight worthy of a playoff hockey game broke out at a Hunts Point gas station yesterday when a pedestrian exchanged harsh words with two cranky livery-cab drivers as he tried to cross a busy street.
One of the angry motorists made a U-turn and confronted the pedestrian while the other driver snapped off his own car’s antenna and started swinging it like a saber, witnesses said.
Matthew Gonzalez, 26, a building manager at a homeless shelter, said he was crossing the street at Hunts Point Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard at about 10 a.m. when the two livery cabs came flying out of the gas station’s entrance.
“I said, ‘Whoa, whoa.’ I said, ‘You gotta learn how to drive,’ ” Gonzalez recalled. “And he said, ‘I’ll show you how to pay attention.’ ”
Before he knew it, he was on the losing end of an Mixed Martial Arts brawl.
Cops came and broke up the melee, and took them all into custody. Gonzalez was later released.