{"id":336,"date":"2005-08-16T14:16:24","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T22:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/08\/and_dont_forget_to_tip_that_cabbie.html"},"modified":"2005-08-16T14:16:24","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T22:16:24","slug":"and_dont_forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/and_dont_forget.html","title":{"rendered":"And Don&#8217;t Forget To Tip That Cabbie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the police department&#8217;s random bag searches that apparently are not overlooking other illegal substances, drug deliverymen (otherwise known as &#8220;drug runners&#8221;) are resorting to expensive cab rides, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nymetro.com\/nymetro\/news\/people\/columns\/intelligencer\/12480\/index2.html\">the costs of which passed on to disgruntled consumers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;My dealer won&#8217;t take the train anymore,&#8221; complains Wiley, a 30-year-old marketing executive and avid pot smoker. &#8220;He charged me an extra $12 for his cab fare today. It&#8217;s ridiculous.&#8221; Call it the anti-terror tax. &#8220;If the runner&#8217;s gotta give a little extra, you&#8217;re gonna give a little extra,&#8221; says Flower, a grandmother and coke dealer who runs her business from a bar beneath her Lower East Side apartment (and says her clients before the crackdown included a network-news executive). She pauses on her bar stool. &#8220;Otherwise, come down here and get it yourself.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take a cab from Midtown all the way to the Lower East Side? On a deadline, no less? Forget it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the police department&#8217;s random bag searches that apparently are not overlooking other illegal substances, drug deliverymen (otherwise known as &#8220;drug runners&#8221;) are resorting to expensive cab rides, the costs of which passed on to disgruntled consumers: &#8220;My dealer won&#8217;t take the train anymore,&#8221; complains Wiley, a 30-year-old marketing executive and avid pot smoker. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}