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Taxi Inferno Outside Rockefeller Center

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A cab caught fire on West 50th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. A reader says the "entire neighborhood stinks of 9/11." It's unclear how the cab caught fire and exploded, but we do know that there are dueling WNBC reporters taking pictures: Consumer Reporter Asa Aarons has some photographs at WNBC.com and the picture above is by Government Affairs Reporter Melissa Russo!

It's unclear if anyone was injured.

Photograph by Melissa Russo/WNBC

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  • monkeycake

    another tragedy of a George Forman grill plugged into the cigarette lighter heating up skewered lamb chunks for the driver's lunch

  • guest

    guest #20 - glad you liked the pics of the kids. ;-)

    guest #19 - sorry about the physics error - the point is, the gas tank didn't explode. There were several small pops (most people assumed them to be the tires, although I assume at some point, whatever gas was there ignited as well). In any case, my point was the car wasn't propelled into the air with debris flying everywhere, etc. It was a very controlled burn...

    In other news, my colleague sent me his cellphone pics, which I've now posted on my site as well:

    http://www.familygreenberg.com/2007/09/taxi.html

    -Brian Greenberg

    -http://www.familygreenberg.com/blog.htm

  • guest

    This was obviously a controlled demolition. I want the 9/18 TRUTH!

  • guest

    Channel 4 News just said the cab driver said he was the way to a mechanic.

  • guest

    Bush and Cheny did it....bastards!!!!!!

  • guest

    I new a woman whose crotch smelled like 9/11.

  • a car doesn't need a bomb to explode.

    this is a clear case of a missle/

  • guest

    I was eating lunch outside at Rockefeller Center, around the corner from this when it started. It certainly got everyone's attention. And there were a couple of small explosions--although most likely just the tires exploding from the heat.

  • sebeticus

    There was no explosion. Witnesses heard the popping of the tires from the heat after the cab caught fire but there was no explosion (i.e. no bomb!)

  • guest

    It was a plan by Aswad (medallion 46t5r) for insurance fraud. His brother, Aknob, did the same thing not more than 20 days ago.

  • guest

    no idea.

    try a google search?

  • guest

    #35- damn right it would be a tragedy!!

    On another post someone mentioned a picture of Jen bending over showing off her cleavage. Anyone know where it is?

  • guest

    wow #35...thats not even close to being appropriate.

    everyone knows boobs don't burn in explosions.

  • Excuse me driver, can you roll down the windows back here? I'm burnin up!

  • guest

    the headline does not indicate any terror related activity. not even a little bit.

    Are you talking about the current headline or the original?

  • guest

    does anyone know if jen chung's boobs were hurt in the explosion? 'cause that would be a tragedy.

  • the headline does not indicate any terror related activity. not even a little bit.

  • guest

    Hey Ace, I didn't force Jen to change it. It was a suggestion and apparently she agreed. And it may have been in fact wrong to say the cab exploded.

  • guest

    Addressing the Guest #1, the cab did explode I was standing in front of it when it went boom and more spoke billowed down the street but thanks for the assumption and making the journalist sound like an idiot when in fact you are the moron!

  • guest

    It looks like this cab may have had the flowers on the hood... I wonder if that contributed to it? I hope not.

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