He Tried to Make Sushi Outta This Guy!

[3113]

A wild road rage incident on Staten Island could've been a scene right out of a movie. An angry sushi chef is accused of slicing up another driver during a dispute on the side of the road. But as CBS 2 HD found out, both drivers are facing charges.

"I thought I was dying," Jack Zaiback said. "I actually said a couple of prayers in the EMS." One minute Zaiback was driving to work; the next, he said, he was fighting off a knife-wielding sushi chef.

"What he did to Mr. Zaiback was he treated him like a slab of tuna. I'll put it that way," attorney Alex Grosshtern said. Zaiback, 23, was commuting from Brooklyn to a cell phone store he owns in New Jersey when he crossed paths with 37-year-old Yao Zhou and an incident of road rage went off the deep end. The two men were driving south here on the Western Shore Expressway. Zaiback said he pulled over after accidentally cutting off Zhou. That's when he said Zhou started cutting him. Zaiback said Zhou first approached the car, but when Zaiback tried exchanging license and insurance information, the attack began.

"He kept trying to reach for my neck and he actually got me right here," Zaiback said pointing. "He did it like seven, eight times." Zaiback received 100 stitches.

Police have filed assault charges against Zhou and Zaiback, but Zaiback's lawyer said his client's wounds should convince the court his client is a victim. "This could have easily been a homicide and in my opinion should be charged as attempted murder," Grosshtern said. Zhou's lawyer declined to speak on camera but told CBS 2 HD there are two sides to every story and, "the truth will come out in time."

Zaiback said he sees meaning in his brush with death. "I guess God did make a miracle," he said. "Maybe he's trying to make me wake up to something that I'm not doing the right way." But, he said he has no idea what struck a sushi chef's raw nerve that day. Zaiback said if it weren't for a passing highway NYPD unit that intervened he could have been killed.

Spicy Tuna Roll anyone?

 

[Elianna]

Spicy Tuna Roll anyone?

My dad always made the mistake of driving like ass and then flipping off the guy with the gun rack on the back of his pickup truck. For some reason he gets behind the wheel and becomes a devil.

There were times when I just remember my mom grabbing him and going... "stop"

However, with the gun rack guy, it was more "guns, Guns, GUNS!!"

The sushi knives are much more difficult to spot at first, of course.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

One of my mantras on the SoCal freeways is "Damn, it's a good thing I don't drive around armed."




Defend your right to arm bears!

 

[Safe_Bet]

What I don't get is why they charged the unarmed guy who got a hundred stitches and why the guy with the knife wasn't charged with attempted murder? WTF is with that?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

What I don't get is why they charged the unarmed guy who got a hundred stitches and why the guy with the knife wasn't charged with attempted murder? WTF is with that?

It's Brooklyn.

 

[michchick98]

That's crazy!

I actually find myself getting pissed at the idiot drivers on the roads, but not to the point of violence like that.

In one incident quite a few years ago, I was on my way to work on the freeway. I merged into the right lane from the left to pass a guy who was creeping along at well below the speed limit.

I used my signal and made sure I had enough room to get over. I began to accelerate when a red van came up behind me and started flashing his lights and honking for me to get out of the way. Well, I couldn't. I had the guardrail for a bridge overpass on one side of me and the car I was passing on the other.

When I didn't immediately get out of the guy's way, he rammed into the back end of my car and nearly sent me flying through the guardrail. Caused a pretty big traffic jam since it was near an interchange. Thankfully, the guy got hauled off to jail cuz there were obviously several witnesses. Too bad. If he would've been patient and waited a few more seconds for me to get by the slower car, he would've made it to where he was in such a hurry to get to.

I was scared shitless, I can only imagine how that guy who got hacked up by the sushi chef must've felt.

 

[3113]

It's Brooklyn.

LOL! Maybe the guy attacked the Sushi Chef and the Sushi Chef was just defending himself? We haven't heard his side of the story after all.

 

[Safe_Bet]

LOL! Maybe the guy attacked the Sushi Chef and the Sushi Chef was just defending himself? We haven't heard his side of the story after all.

Oh I don't doubt that the Sushi Chef was defending himself. Obviously, Zaiback kept attacking the poor guy's knife with his neck.

 

[rgraham666]

And some people wonder why I don't drive.

 

[DesertPirate]

In the early 90s there was a semi-truck that ran I25 South 3 times a week. He had a habit of going 8MPH over the limit and never moving out of the right lane. He would tailgate like crazy but managed to avoid the cops. Until one Sept. morning when he came upon a pick up with 4 guys in the back. He got 2 feet of the bumper and stayed there. Do you have anyidea what 4 rounds of 12 GA. birdshot will do to a radiator? They had just come in from dove hunting


Don't be stupid around country boys.