Discussion: NYPD: Giuliani's SUV Doors NYC Pedicab, No Injuries Reported

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In urban areas it has become a verb to describe opening a door into a lane and hitting someone or something, most often a bicyclist.

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Thanks for the clarification…I was thinking that they would describe the cab as “vacant” as they do with motorized cabs.

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I just used Google Translate to conclude that that was very nice!

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Everything I know about New York derives from Blue Bloods on CBS.

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Only a few bikes on that show. Mostly in the hands of drug dealers.

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And bike messengers.

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Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco, and, if you can find it, The Pope Of Greenwich Village are the primer in New York-ese. Along with Annie Hall and All About Eve.

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Don’t forget NYPD Blues and Hill Street Blues. I could probably use Google to find out what blue signifies, or I could make some reasonable conjectures, or I could try to get a life.

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The old man and I get to drive in a very congested city, San Francisco, full of Ubers, Lyfts, scooter and bikes, cars big and small, SUVs, the lot, and our pet peeve is drivers who fling the driver’s side door open and reach back in to do something. So image the glee we felt one fine day when a big bus came tootling down the busy street and as the driver flung open the door as wide as it would go, the big bus plowed into it probably because he had no time stop in time or even swing around it. So sad.

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NYPD Blue was filmed in LA and so was Hill St. Blues, but if you want San Francisco realism, try (and you probably won’t find it), The Streets of San Francisco with Karl Malden and Michael Douglas, about a million years old, or Bullitt, it’s on TV a lot. The blue might refer to the blue uniforms the cops wear.

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“Rickshaw driver runs into former mayors SUV” “China refuses to accept responsibility”

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Not to imply that this is not life. Poor attempt at self-deprecation. This is my life. (An overstatement.) Help.

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I was really into Dexter until I found out it was filmed in Long Beach, CA. Psych was filmed in Vancouver, not Santa Barbara, but I still love the show.

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Lots and lots of films made in Vancouver, it’s cheaper.

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I wonder how many people now think that Santa Barbara looks like the Pacific Northwest?

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Truly, poetic justice.

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I wouldn’t wish it on anybody, but that it happened to someone who was unaware of traffic around him and that only he mattered in that moment means he maybe won’t do it again.

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No, it was excellent. But there’s no reason to get a life anyway. You have google, a microwave, fridge, and Tee Vee. And if you’re old you have the added bonus of (depending on the weather) wearing pajama bottoms, tee shirts and flip flops for the rest of your life. Maybe not to a friend’s funeral but it will work at your local 24 hr gas station where you can usually get what you’re missing at home. Plus Powerball.

Sounds like you’re doing just fine.

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One tries …

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I live in Virginia about an hour from where The Waltons was set (where Earl Hamner, aka John Boy, actually grew up). I love the show, but it always looks weird when they go up onto the mountain because it was filmed in California and the trees are wrong for Central Virginia. Reminds me of the one thing Mitt Romney said that made sense–that he was glad to be back in Michigan, where the trees were the “right height.” People howled, but I understood it.

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