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NYC cabbie ‘lucky to be alive’ after Knicks maniacs trashed taxi #shorts
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0:34Now PlayingThe cab driver whose taxi was destroyed in a Knicks mania-fueled melee last week said he’s “lucky to be alive” after the mob ripped him from the vehicle.
Noureddine Bitat, 59, says he has no plans to return to the chauffeuring gig following the ambush outside Madison Square Garden on June 11 — a beatdown he said he was handed just for driving through the wrong place at the wrong time.
“The crowd came and they attacked him. They grabbed him out of the cab. They grabbed him by the neck. Someone punched him in his head,” a translator explained for Bitat, of Algeria, on Wednesday.
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