That’s no ordinary New York City yellow taxi in the image above; it’s a police cruiser for the New York City Police Department dressed up like an NYC yellow taxi. Captured in a short video on a Manhattan street corner, it is escorting an NYPD van behind it.
They don’t just use Crown Vics, either: NYC The Blog has video from two years ago of a motorist being pulled over by a Nissan Altima taxi. The blog also lets you know how to tell an undercover police cab from a proper taxi by comparing the license plate number to the medallion number on the cab’s roof – not that it would do you any good in your rearview mirror, though.
When the post was written two and a half years ago it was said that there were only eight such taxis prowling the naked city, and that their plates all began with “T800.”
http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/26/check-out-this-sneaky-nypd-cop-car-disguised-as-a-yellow-cab/
I wonder how many drunk people have tried to hail down this taxi after a night of partying? . . . oops!
. . .
That’s awesome. What about cash cab? Don’t they film that show in NYC? Get in the cash cop car…answer some questions on your way to the pokie…Yeah!
They also have a newer “Cash Cab” that they film in Chicago, driven by a woman.
They also have their snitches drive cabs, strike up a conversation with their passenger to get info. and all the while the damned radio is turned on – inevery cab ya know – so the disaptch can have on record all that was said in the cab. I used to know some dope dealers that were cab drivers and this is what they said that they were told when they got busted and that was a part of their plea agreement. Yea, them cops and snitches are all a bunch of sneaky scumbags.
Oh, the humanity! These snitches and sneaky snakes are evil.
Oh, the humanity! These snitches and sneaky snakes are evil.
Kind of like DARE – trick the kids to give up the parents and others.
Espionage.
We have the same sneaky taxi’s in The Woodlands, Texas… I have a great picture of one pulling someone over if you’re interested…
This would seem like entrapment and fraud ( impersonating something
it is not). Trickery. Dishonest.
Yes, Leita. I agree with that observation…pretty soon the cops will pull you over on their way to work in their personal cars.
Or spy on you with RFID chips implanted in your
DL – I hammered mine to death.
That’s awesome.
Just microwave that dl for about 3 – 4 seconds. Should do the job.
That would do it…might be pretty cool to watch. Snap-crackle-pop…
@ David Kidd, I have always wondered if a magnet would work on a dl. I know a magnet works on magnetic strips like on credit cards, bank cards etc.
Yes. This is true. this is why you don’t want to take credit cards into an MRI room. The MRI magnet will erase the cards ability to be read at the ATM or card reader.
I read about the microwave defense
but there is a real fine line on the
seconds. Besides I gave my micro-
oven away twenty years ago d/t
the hidden dangers and health
hazards with microwaved food.
Not only that but they will give their own kids drugs that they confiscated on a drug bust to sell in the grade schools on up to the colledges and then bust the buyers.
They’ve been hiding in taxi cabs since I was a little kid. If you look at the cab number on the roof you’ll see the letter “R” mixed with the numbers. Unless they changed it, that’s how you knew it was a cop car. To the TLC the R just means a void medallion number. (they all have at least one letter among the digits)
LOL, I remember hearing about that too Jolly Roger. Haven`t heard anyone bring that one up for many many years.
I’ve been up here since ’80 and they’ve always “stuck out like a sore thumb”. For one thing, real cabbies don’t have a rider in the front seat with no passengers in the back. Didn’t know about the “R”, Jolly Roger. Thanks .
Around here anyway the informants and snitches and off duty cops were the cabbies, ya know the drivers, Angel.
Some things never change.
NYC is a city of vampires. They infect all those around them with vampirism thru their bites.
Paul, you’re right. They are insect type humans carrying various diseases like gun ban virus, global warming – itis, as well as other insane diseases.
Not all of us.
Isn’t there some illegality to using police cars disguised as taxicabs? Not like legality matters in NYC anymore. Just sayin’.