Blaine & Fiancée Hitch Ride To Hospital On Snow Plow

David Blaine couldn't pull a cab out of his bag of tricks last week when his pregnant fiancée, Alizee Guinochet, went into labor during the latest blizzard. According to the NY Post, "the doorman and people on the street tried to help him flag down a taxi. But there were absolutely no cars on the road," and not a car service in town would pick the couple up. But it turns out Blaine had luck on his side, and a plow owned by a private contractor came around the corner and picked them up. The couple welcomed a baby girl, whose name they have not yet released, but... what would the baby version of Mr. Plow be?

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By Jen Carlson in News on February 3, 2011 3:49 PM

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I'd say this is a fairly salient example of exactly how badly local government has sunk in the last couple months/years.

Just think - If David Blane's tax bracket actually paid a rational tax rate in line with the rest of the world, we could have snowplows AND garbage trucks AND ambulances at the same time! Just like the rest of the world!