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All Hail the Taxi Court : New York has its own way of dealing with cabbies who cheat or assail their passengers and race through residential zones at 60 m.p.h. And get this: Justice is relatively swift--and sweet.

April 24, 1994

As a New Yorker braced for life's insults, Jeff Bilhuber thought he'd seen it all: Panhandlers who curse your unborn children; trains that catch fire in darkened tunnels; traffic jams that turn passengers into pit bulls. But it was all just a warm-up for the cabby who kicked him in the ribs. On a rainy night last year, Bilhuber and three friends grabbed a taxi for a short ride to a Manhattan bistro.

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All Hail the Taxi Court : New York has its own way of dealing with cabbies who cheat or assail their passengers and race through residential zones at 60 m.p.h. And get this: Justice is relatively swift--and sweet.

April 24, 1994

As a New Yorker braced for life's insults, Jeff Bilhuber thought he'd seen it all: Panhandlers who curse your unborn children; trains that catch fire in darkened tunnels; traffic jams that turn passengers into pit bulls. But it was all just a warm-up for the cabby who kicked him in the ribs. On a rainy night last year, Bilhuber and three friends grabbed a taxi for a short ride to a Manhattan bistro.

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