Tamara Perez tells CBS 2 HD she still can’t believe it happened.

The incident happened Tuesday after Perez ran to her East Village home to pick up some papers. Once in the cab, the 35-year-old realized she had no cash the pay the $10 fare. Instead, she pulled out a credit card, but the cabbie wasn’t having it.

“He wouldn’t let me use the card, he wouldn’t press the button,” she tells CBS 2. “I said, ‘You have to press the button,’ and he’s like, ‘No, no I don’t know, I don’t know how to use it.'”

Perez says the driver got out of the cab and told her to go get cash. She refused, said she wanted to use the machine and would tip well.

“I already have people coming over,” Olsen replied, according to police sources.

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Twenty-four hours after the sudden and stunning death of the 2006 Oscar nominee, police detailed a bizarre sequence of events that included Wolozin setting up a massage table near Ledger’s body.

1 p.m.: Housekeeper Teresa Solomon, on her regularly scheduled Tuesday stop at Ledger’s home, hears him snoring while she’s changing a bathroom light bulb. She looks into the room.

2:45 p.m.: Wolozin arrives at the $24,000-a-month Broome St. apartment 15 minutes early for a 3 p.m. appointment.

3 p.m.: Concerned when Ledger doesn’t appear, Wolozin dials his cell-phone number — and when he doesn’t answer, she walks into his bedroom several minutes later. He’s lying facedown, with the covers pulled up to his shoulders.

3:11 p.m.: Thinking the actor is asleep, Wolozin calls his name while pulling the massage table from a closet. Wolozin then grabs Ledger to shake him awake, but his body is cold to the touch.

3:12 p.m.: The frightened masseuse — who knew Olsen and Ledger — takes Ledger’s cell phone and hits the speed dial for Olsen in California. Olsen instructs the masseuse to hold on, promising to send her security guards.

3:26 p.m.: When Ledger doesn’t respond to a second round of shaking, Wolozin calls back to tell Olsen she is calling paramedics. She dials 911, and the operator instructs her to perform CPR.

Although the club brought the lighters to a City Hall rally in November against legislation proposed by Brooklyn Councilmember Simcha Felder that is aimed at curtailing the pigeon population, they were not as popular as the T-shirts that read “I [heart] NY” followed by a red pigeon symbol.

“It wasn’t really a lighter crowd at City Hall,” said Jackie Mock, 21, a founding member of the group.

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“This club started as a fun experiment, but it turned into something a lot bigger,” said Mock. “The pigeon ban really brought us out into the open. In a way it is the first really serious thing we have done.”

Felder’s proposed legislation recommends creating a “pigeon czar” to oversee the pigeon population, fining people for feeding pigeons, feeding the pigeons birth control, “dovecotting” — or replacing pigeon eggs with fakes — and reintroducing hawks and falcons into the urban habitat, as well as experimenting with the use of robotic hawks.

“There is a real sci-fi twinge to the methods proposed,” said Millholland. “Releasing hawks to kill the pigeons seems a lot worse than just having pigeons. And replacing the eggs with fake eggs is just mean.”

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Millholland said that, in her view, the pigeon ban does seem like a “publicity thing” for Felder. Felder did not respond to requests for comment for this article.

Similar attempts at pigeon population control have been enacted in London, Basel, Switzerland and Los Angeles.

The police said Mr. Taylor first struck at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, robbing an HSBC branch at 342 Fulton Street of $450. On Saturday, the police said, he showed up two doors down at a Bank of America branch, and robbed that one too, making off with nearly $3,500.

On Monday, growing more brazen, the police said, Mr. Taylor showed up twice more at the same Bank of America branch, at 350 Fulton Street — first at 10 a.m. and then at 2:20 p.m. Each time, they said, he demanded that tellers turn over cash. He fled with more than $3,800 from the two robberies into the teeming crowds of holiday shoppers.

The police have rarely experienced a string of bank robberies in such quick succession and proximity. So when the two branches opened on Tuesday, dozens of officers in uniform and in plainclothes were on the lookout inside and positioned outside along the Fulton Mall’s sidewalks.

They would have little trouble recognizing Mr. Taylor if he showed up again, investigators said, because his image had been captured by bank surveillance cameras.