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    Image of goetz goetz
    11/25/09

    In reply to Pyro Teen Is Hieroglyphic Fiend: Zodiac Copycat Burns School While Cops Turn Fool!
    Mohammed Hassan? Oh no! Don't tell me this is another case of someone "Going Muslim"...
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    onebadclam promoted this comment goetz was starred goetz was unstarred
    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    11/25/09

    @goetz: Prepare for "Obama now has two terrorist attacks on US soil" stories.
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    Image of goetz goetz
    11/25/09

    @onebadclam: He'd totally win the Thanksgiving Horror Story contest.
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    goetz was starred goetz was unstarred
    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    11/25/09

    In reply to Pyro Teen Is Hieroglyphic Fiend: Zodiac Copycat Burns School While Cops Turn Fool!
    This sounds like a job for Encyclopedia Brown!
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    AndPreciousLittleofThat was starred AndPreciousLittleofThat was unstarred
    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    11/25/09

    @AndPreciousLittleofThat: I was thinking it is more of a Jupiter Jones sort of thing, what with the hieroglyphics.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    A little late, but:
    "Why, yes, the special is
    voiture flambé? How did you guess?"
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    According to the Fire Department, the fire occurred when Silda Spitzer got in the back seat of the taxi and took a look at the front page of today's Post, causing her head to explode.
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    SidAndFinancy promoted this comment El_Gato was starred El_Gato was unstarred
    Image of MelitaPolyhymnia MelitaPolyhymnia
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    Oh look!! A CAR - B - QUE!!
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    irishflyesq promoted this comment MelitaPolyhymnia was starred MelitaPolyhymnia was unstarred
    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    I know a lot of jalopers that might appreciate a cross-post.
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    mr_dude was starred mr_dude was unstarred
    Image of BoonsFarmersDaughter BoonsFarmersDaughter
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    Please tell me that wasn't the Cash Cab. If it was, I have nothing left to hope for.
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    The Real JR promoted this comment BoonsFarmersDaughter was starred BoonsFarmersDaughter was unstarred
    Image of The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    Couldn't the driver simply have said, "No, ma'm, I'm not going to the Bronx," and left it at that?
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    The Real JR promoted this comment The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx was starred The_Lovely_Miss_Bronx was unstarred
    Image of ArnoldJulisa ArnoldJulisa
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    "...uh, yeah. I was just in one of your cabs and I may have left an incendiary device- oh. really? nevermind."
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    The Real JR promoted this comment ArnoldJulisa was starred ArnoldJulisa was unstarred
    Image of lobstr lobstr
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    Hi, could you pick me up from Fire Island, I'm going to Central Spark...
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    09/03/09

    @lobstr: With a quick stop in Hell's Kitchen.
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    Image of HowardRoarkLaughed HowardRoarkLaughed
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    It's just a promotion for Morrissey's new single, "Cabdriver on Fire".
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    johnny_carsick promoted this comment HowardRoarkLaughed was starred HowardRoarkLaughed was unstarred
    Image of TuxedoUWS TuxedoUWS
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    The lengths that a cab driver will go to in order to NOT pick up a black man. Geesh!
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    The Real JR promoted this comment TuxedoUWS was starred TuxedoUWS was unstarred
    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    I always laugh when I see cabs on fire, because I'm awful, but it's funny right?
     Reply
    MattGaymon was starred MattGaymon was unstarred
    Image of Deric Deric
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    RIP Ben Bailey.
     Reply
    Deric was starred Deric was unstarred
    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    09/03/09

    @Deric: Red light challenge indeed.
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    Image of FrozenHaddock FrozenHaddock
    09/03/09

    In reply to Times Square Taxi Inferno!
    You can tell from the 2nd shot that the barrier separating the restaurant's seating area from the sidewalk has collapsed and there is debris, so it's probably real. Also, a movie explosion would be far, far more dramatic--they would probably have launched the cab 100 feet in the air and made all those pretty round light fixtures explode.

    The lunch menu still seems to be up, though, so business as usual!
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    City_Dater promoted this comment FrozenHaddock was starred FrozenHaddock was unstarred
    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    09/03/09

    @FrozenHaddock:

    You can also tell it isn't a movie shoot by the complete absence of cameras, crew, barriers holding back the hordes of tourists who collect whenever they see filming, etc. ...
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    City_Dater was starred City_Dater was unstarred
    Image of FrozenHaddock FrozenHaddock
    09/03/09

    @City_Dater: I do see a bunch, maybe not hordes, of onlookers. But you're right. And on a movie set the restaurant would actually be full for more effect.
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    FrozenHaddock was starred FrozenHaddock was unstarred
    Image of irishflyesq irishflyesq
    09/03/09

    @City_Dater: Guarantee you someone's calling the cab company to complain about traffic being blocked.
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    Edited by irishflyesq at 09/03/09 4:26 PM irishflyesq was starred irishflyesq was unstarred
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