If the incident below is the first big overstatement of 2004, then here’s the biggest understatement of the year so far, about a man who rammed a truck into the Bell Centre during last night’s hockey game:
“He called me and said, ‘You wouldn’t believe what happened. A guy just backed into the (Bell) Centre with an old pick-up,’ ” Makarios said.
“You can’t be very brilliant to do that,” said Guy Bergeron, as he filed out of the Bell Centre.
No, I don’t suppose you can.
Was his name Poupko?