Hacks take whacks at pedestrian

TOMAS E. GASTON

1: YOU TALKING TO ME? One of the angry cabbies confronts Matthew Gonzalez (back to camera) after they traded harsh words outside a Hunts Point BP gas station.

Only in New York. Well, maybe just The Bronx.

A violent fight worthy of a playoff hockey game broke out at a Hunts Point gas station yesterday when a pedestrian exchanged harsh words with two cranky livery-cab drivers as he tried to cross a busy street.

TOMAS E. GASTON

2: A BAD CASE OF WHIP-LASH: As Gonzalez wrestles with the first angry hack (shirt pulled up), a second driver joins in the fracas, swinging an antenna at the 280-pound pedestrian. The driver snapped the antenna off his own car.

One of the angry motorists made a U-turn and confronted the pedestrian while the other driver snapped off his own car’s antenna and started swinging it like a saber, witnesses said.

Matthew Gonzalez, 26, a building manager at a homeless shelter, said he was crossing the street at Hunts Point Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard at about 10 a.m. when the two livery cabs came flying out of the gas station’s entrance.

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3: A BRONX TALE: Bystanders look on as Gonzalez manages to pull a shirt off one of his attackers. But he is overpowered by the duo, and wrestled to the ground.

“I said, ‘Whoa, whoa.’ I said, ‘You gotta learn how to drive,’ ” Gonzalez recalled. “And he said, ‘I’ll show you how to pay attention.’ ”

Before he knew it, he was on the losing end of an Mixed Martial Arts brawl.

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4: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: Cops slap the cuffs on the hulking Gonzalez after breaking up the brutal brawl. The cabbies were also arrested, and Gonzalez was released.

Cops came and broke up the melee, and took them all into custody. Gonzalez was later released.