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Around 4:00 p.m. each day in New York, there is a shift change among cabs. During the shift change, the cab drivers have to return the cabs to dispatch and give them to another driver. Between 3:30 and 4:00 p.m. yesterday, I stood in front of a big office building trying to hail a cab to the airport; more than twenty cabs stopped, then refused to take me to the airport when they found out where I was going. It was also pretty cold out there and I was a bit desperate, so I started flagging down every single Lincoln Town Car I saw.
A few cars stopped and asked me what was wrong. The third car stopped and told me he would take me to the airport for $65—he was an illegal cab driver who had been patrolling for people just like me.
During the ride to the airport, the driver told me that I was lucky he had agreed to take me to La Guardia because a police officer nicknamed ”King Kong” was working that day. He told me that after dropping me off, he planned on parking the car and approaching people leaving the airport. Apparently, he had been caught doing this before and each time he was caught, he was fined $300 and put in jail for a day or two.
He also said that ”a friend” had sent a bunch of cocaine to his house from Colombia around a decade ago and he had signed for it and ended up going to prison.
”I wish they’d stop bringing that shit up. It was more than ten years ago, and I never asked him to send me $60,000 in cocaine anyway. How was I supposed to know what was in the package?”
For more than an hour, I heard a long tirade about King Kong. King Kong has apparently gotten his name because he has put hundreds of illegal ”cabbies” in jail and does the work of twenty-plus police officers. He runs around the airport arresting illegal cabbies all day, every day. King Kong has arrested so many illegal cab drivers that he is known to most of the thousands of illegal cab drivers throughout the city of New York.
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