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When A Cadillac Escalade Pretends To Be A Cab
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Jen Chung
Published May 10, 2011
Modified May 10, 2011
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Sure, taxi drivers now have the option of getting a $51,000 Mercedes Benz yellow cab, but one Cadillac Escalade wasn't quite a legitimate, Taxi and Limousine Commission-licensed vehicle. According to the Post, a TLC agent trying to bust drivers who aren't licensed as taxi or livery drivers was picked up by a driver of that luxury SUV in Midtown: "He got in and told the driver he'd get a summons." Only, instead of just accepting the summons, the driver decided to drive off...with the agent in the car.
The Escalade driver took the agent from Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street all the way to East 138th Street in the Bronx, with another agent following. The Post reports, "There the agent smashed the Escalade's window so he could shut the ignition. The bogus driver was charged with reckless endangerment."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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