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    Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie

    NYC Cabbie Demands iPod as Payment, Remains at Large

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    11/13/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    Maybe they were shooting the new Super Mario Bros movie? #marioandluigiassault
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    Loved the music and sound effects...lol. #marioandluigiassault
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    I'm more interested in that magical vanishing truck. #marioandluigiassault
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    Revenge? #marioandluigiassault
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    It's-a-me! Mario! Give-a me my fuckin money! #marioandluigiassault
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    They must have been on shrooms. #marioandluigiassault
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    11/12/09

    @Software_Goddess: Well that explains why their tall. #marioandluigiassault
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    I love how that idiot just stands around and watches.
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    11/12/09

    @Noobs-R-Us: He was one of the guys in the cab, so, he may just be like, whatever dude, you can fight the hack if you want. #marioandluigiassault
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    Amateurs. You're supposed to jump on his head, and kick him so he slides away. #marioandluigiassault
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    11/12/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: But you have to make sure you jump over him when he bounces back towards you. #marioandluigiassault
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Video of Mario and Luigi Assaulting NY Cabbie
    Is that guy in a white suit with white patent leather shoes and a pimp cane? Only in Staten Island. #marioandluigiassault
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    11/12/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking: hilarious and he walks away like nothing happened. #marioandluigiassault
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    01/18/09

    In reply to NYC Cabbie Demands iPod as Payment, Remains at Large
    What generation of iPod was it? I mean this is a viable question... I had a ride yesterday from Vandam street to 139th and Lennox which ran me about 48 bux because of some ass on the Hudson ... I mean, you can get an older iPod these days for around 30 bux on ebay... she might have made out with a deal. Hell, maybe she was just "playing dumb" and this was all a ploy to get the cabbie to demand the iPod. The FOOL! Can you believe this guy fell for it... poor cabbie I say! This woman must be stopped!!! Think of all the tourist terrorism she is committing in other cities around the world under the guise of a naive unravelled tourist pawning of cheap outdated technology for viable expensive services...


    Its shit like this that makes me take the subway... I swear.

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    01/18/09

    @nystreetfilms: I should walk around with a pocket full of dead iPods and use them as currency. "Aw man I forgot my wallet. Here, have an iPod!"
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    01/18/09

    In reply to NYC Cabbie Demands iPod as Payment, Remains at Large
    Words cannot describe how much I hate New York City, that festering cesspool of corruption, crime and filth. I live 60 miles north of it, and I go there as infrequently as humanly possible. That stinking pit is dragging the rest of New York right down into a hole with it. New York City should become its own District and stop sucking the rest of the state dry.


    New York Charm, as summed up by Eddie Dean of the Dark Tower series:


    "Can you tell me how to get to Lexington and Fourth, or should I just go fuck myself?"

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    01/18/09

    @gadjitfreek: You were bitten by a crackhead as a child, weren't you?
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    01/18/09

    In reply to NYC Cabbie Demands iPod as Payment, Remains at Large
    Haha. I'd love to get in this guy's cab. While we're driving I'd start cursing about how my iphone battery just went dead and I'd be holding it up to make sure he gets a good look at it. When we reach our destination I'd fumble around for a minute, then say I forgot my wallet. Naturally he'd demand my iphone as payment, which I would sheepishly hand over to him before hastily exiting the cab. As he drives off with a smirk on his face I would be laughing my ass off for giving him one of these...


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    01/17/09

    In reply to NYC Cabbie Demands iPod as Payment, Remains at Large
    "Can we use Apple products as currency once our money isn't worth the ink used to print it?"


    Dunno. Give Zimbabwe a call and see what they have to say on the matter (they reported just printed a 100 trillion dollar bill...which was, at the time, worth roughly $300 USD, and now probably wouldn't be worth more than half that).

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    01/17/09

    In reply to NYC Cabbie Demands iPod as Payment, Remains at Large
    I wonder about this. According to the article, they can't get the names of the officers. Funny, you would think the airport would have footage of the arrival and departure areas.


    Also, hopefully she bought her music through iTunes, cuz this guy will be SOL listening to her DRM music.

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    01/17/09

    @EducatedFlea_GitEmSteveDave: Wow, wonderful argument for buying stupid DRM lossy garbage with my hard earned money. Just in case my iPod gets stolen the thief can't listen to my stupid lossy DRM garbage.


    Like anyone in their right would give a flying fck about the music on the device, especially the kind of crap listened to by 20 year old girls.


    Keep the DRM power alive.

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    01/18/09

    @sxr7171: It wasn't an argument he posited, but merely a statement.


    On the other hand it could be argued that you're a bit of a d-bag based on your statement though....

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    01/17/09

    In reply to NYC Cabbie Demands iPod as Payment, Remains at Large
    This obviously did not happen. Certainly not how the girl is claiming. The only real crime I can possibly detect in this imagined story is horrendous parenting. To raise an utterly naive and incapable 20 yr old and then allow her to travel alone? That is criminal.

    Everyone knows NYC cab drivers are quite famous for returning bags of cash and valuable items. Oh and getting shot by assholes.

    All to earn a meager living.

    Your daughter lost her iPod and is embarrassed to tell you. Buy her a new one.
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    01/18/09

    @Rajesh Sampathkumar: If you're a native NY'er, taking the train is pretty much a quick and simple way to travel about (though, as previous respondent says, it's frakkin' cold out). To tourists and such, simply getting into a cab and saying where you need to go is a lot faster, even if more expensive. I'm assuming that this was just one of those trips that wasn't going to be taken often, so cost is not as much of an issue.
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