Chaotic scenes like a takeover on Interstate 90 left drivers shocked and scared even to be out overnight on weekends in Cleveland.
It was like something out of a thriller.
“I had 12 passengers panicking,” Tim Beck said.
Beck drives a party bus for PST LLC.
He was on I-90 at 4 a.m. Sunday, taking people home from a night out downtown when a masked mob took over the interstate and attacked the party bus.
“Within a few minutes we had people hanging on the windshield, we had them hanging on the side mirror,” Beck said.
Beck said he came up on orange barrels blocking his path. Just ahead, he said, there were about 100 people doing donuts and pouring gasoline to start fires. The highway was gridlocked.
“We dialed 911 immediately. I got a voicemail recording that took six minutes for them to call me back,” Beck said.
During that wait, they were surrounded by the mob banging on the windows and door.
Beck said it took about 30 minutes before he saw police lights, but by then, he managed to escape.