Labor Day Weekend Fight Leads To Truck Fleeing On LYNX Tracks
So how was your Labor Day weekend? Did you do anything exciting like catch a concert or a football game? Maybe an afternoon at the pool or the lake? How about a little shopping followed by a backyard cookout with family and friends? Or, then again, you could have gotten into a street fight and hightailed it out of town by driving your truck down some train tracks? Anything like that?
Labor Day Melee
Over the Labor Day weekend, a group of young adults had a bit of a disagreement and fists were flying. According to Queen City News, the incident occurred outside of a new Colombian tapas restaurant called Muraya that will be opening this month in South End. It’s in the space formerly occupied by Hot Taco where the light rail crosses Bland Street.
After some of the street fight participants decided they had had enough, they hopped into a black Chevy truck. However, rather than take a predictable route home (because where’s the fun in that?), they turned right from Bland Street directly onto the LYNX Blue Line tracks. Video posted on the Barstool 49ers Instagram page shows the truck bouncing down the tracks toward Park Avenue.
Aftermath
No word if the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department will pursue this matter but, if they do, it shouldn’t be too hard for them to find the driver of the truck-turned-train. A lot of people captured video of the unorthodox journey on their phones.
As for any possible damage to the LYNX tracks, CATS said in a statement: “We were alerted to the video yesterday morning and promptly dispatched our Maintenance of Way team to inspect the area of concern. Their thorough inspection confirmed the safety and integrity of the rail tracks”
Based on the CATS statement, it appears that all of this went down on Saturday (9/2) night. The video of the truck driving down the light rail tracks is posted below. If you want to see the full NSFW (violence, language) video that includes the fight, CLICK HERE. My favorite comment is “Haha. That’s not how train tracks work.“