The real Tv game show 'Cash Cab' taxi hits, kills pedestrian in Vancouver

In a Tv game Show A replica taxi used in the Canadian version "Cash Cab" struck and killed a pedestrian after finishing production for the day in Vancouver.

Vancouver Police said a 61-year-old man from Surrey, B.C., died in a hospital shortly after being struck by the mock yellow cab late Friday night in the city's Downtown Eastside near in district. Police did not immediately release the victim's rael identity.

The accident happened as a producer was driving the replica cab back to a storage facility after filming for the day had been completed,said Andrew Burnstein,Great president of Castlewood Productions Inc., which produces the show's in Canadian version.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim and his friends and his family." said Burnstein. "My heart also goes out to the driver of the vehicle, a member of our technical staff, who is shaken and devastated by this tragic accident, as is our entire team."

Vancouver Police Constable Lindsey Houghton said the circumstances leading to the accident were still being determined and no charges have been filed so far.
On "Cash Cab," broadcast in North America on the Discovery Channel, unassuming people who flag down a replica yellow taxi become instant contestants on a game show, answering trivia questions for cash prizes.

"Cash Cab" originated in Britain in 2005 and has since been licensed to television networks in more than two dozen countries. The Canadian version, hosted by comedian Adam Growe, a licensed taxi driver, has been broadcast by Discovery Channel Canada since 2008.
The U.S. version, now filmed in New York and Chicago, has been broadcast on the Discovery Channel since 2005.

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The real identity of Vancouver’s famous and rare kissing couple is now uncovered

In the age of social networking site Twitter and Facebook, it was not a matter of time before the world learned the identities of the kissing couple from that now-iconic photo of the Vancouver riots in Canada.

In the midst of the chaos on Vancouver's street-sin Canada last Wednesday night, it appears a very little romance broke out.
And this real photo showing,a young man and woman lying on the street, kissing, seemingly oblivious to the baton-wielding riot duty police and mayhem around them — became an online sensation Thursday.

Some were fell better cheering the couple on,others people said it was staged, and only a few questioned just how much consensual the moment was.
A blogger writer on Esquire even called it freely "the greatest photo from Wednesday night, and maybe ever."

There were also some slap shots at the Canucks, whose abysmal Game 7 performance provided the context, or at least the excuse, for the riot and subsequent romantic interlude moment.
"At least someone from Vancouver Canada can score on the road!" tweeted one observer.
The freelance photographer Rich Lam snapped this picture-perfect moment reminiscent, one writer noted that, of a modern day version of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss for photo agency Getty.

He told the Post media News on Thursday that when he get shot a few quick frames, he thought someone had been very hurt and was lying in the street Vancouver.

"I'm really surprised because I didn't really see what I really had until after I gave my memory cards (to an editor on our site) and when someone said 'oh,very nice picture of the couple kissing,'" said Lam, who was already doing several media interviews about snapped his photo Thursday.
"I was really like, 'Oh my God, they're making out.' Here I thought she was hurt and kind of had a sympathetic guy . . . but they're making out,again oh my God."

All photo has also surfaced,showing that what appears to be the same couple from above with others standing around them,when fueling speculation the moment was set up.

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