Nothing to see here folks, just a cabbie and a pedicab driver brawling in a Midtown Manhattan street right in front of David Letterman’s Ed Sullivan Theater, so just move along, okay! Read more »
Though New York City cab drivers are banned from using cell phones, even the hands-free variety, a quick survey by the Times found more than a third of drivers making calls. It’s not surprising considering the NYPD barely ever enforces the law, issuing less than two tickets for every million cab rides. |NYT|
It doesn’t take much to excite out of towners: “Until you get used to it, riding in a New York cab can be harrowing. There’s an aggressive style of jackrabbit starts and abrupt stops, a “that’s my lane” attitude and a strange ability cabbies have of veering left and right across lanes in synch. Gets the heart going the first few trips.” |Freep|
While most reasonable New Yorkers would probably agree that news anchors shouldn’t be dropping f-bombs at will, the idea of fining and suspending cabbies like Zbigniew Sobczak for it is more repugnant than the worst explicatives. “The Taxi & Limousine Commission promised to slap big fines on cabbies who swear and possibly revoke their licenses, The Post has learned. Sobczak was suspended for 30 days and fined $1,000 – even though he was found guilty only of verbal harassment, not assault, after a hearing before administrative-law Judge Alessandra Zorgniotti.” |NYP|
This designer Asprey pill case was found in a cab yesterday afternoon packed with a colorful assortment of pills. Not being big on legal prescription drugs we have no idea what the pink and blue ones do, but they look the most effective. We can only assume that someone must have had a pretty stressful afternoon without their trusty case and the only one who made out in all of this was the therapist.
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