51-YEAR-OLD DRUGGIE CARJACKS CAB WHILE NAKED

Naked man who is 'high on drugs steals a cab, crashes, and does a burnout' before being dragged from the vehicle by bystanders

BY Jordan Gass-Poore

DailMail
February 12, 2017

A naked man allegedly hijacked a cab and drove it through a crowded Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia before crashing into a curb.

At 3.30pm the unidentified 51-year-old man weaved the cab through the popular area. Pedestrian Kyra Howell had to dart for cover.

'I honestly saw my life flash before my eyes', Howell told Action News.

He struck two parked cars before finally crashing into a moving vehicle and then a curb at 18th and Walnut streets.

A handful of people dragged the driver out of the smoking cab.

Brandon Thompson was one of the witnesses who pulled the man out of the cab and held him down until police arrived at the scene.

'I ran up and grabbed the wheel and he was still trying to fight', Thompson told Action News.

'The only thing on my mind was that he needed to be stopped'.

Josh Schonewolf told Philly Mag that he was in the park running errands at the time of the incident.

'It was pretty effing scary', said Schonewolf. 'People were running inside and stuff. When they pulled [the man] out of the cab he was all red and naked and crazy'.

Police said the man stole the car around 3pm from cabdriver Michael Emmanuel, 42, who was dropping off a customer on the 2000 block of Locust Street.

The man allegedly pulled a 49-year-old woman out of the idle cab by her hair and threw her to the ground.

When Emmanuel got out to help the woman, the suspect jumped into the driver's seat and drove off.

'When she paid me, he came to the passenger side door, and grabbed the lady from her hair, from her collar, and dragged her on the street', he told Action News.

'He took off his clothes, opened the door, ran in the car, and drove off'.

The man, who police said appeared to be under the influence of some sort of substance, was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries.

No other injuries were reported.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Now if that had been a naked woman, all kinds of cops would have shown up in a New York minute.