Police: Suburban man gets up to ramming speed on Lansdowne Street

Officers on patrol near closing time on Lansdowne Street early this morning arrested a Norfolk man after watching him "running at full speed, run smack dab into the side of a cab that had stopped to pick up a fare," denting the vehicle.

Police say the man then tried to blend into the crowd, but he proved no match for the fleet footed officers, who arrested him on a charge of willful and malicious destruction of property. Police did not hazard a guess as to why he decided to throw himself at the cab.