Man With Gunshot Wound Can't Catch A Cab Either

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Not getting a ride to Brooklyn is annoying, being dragged hurts, and racial profiling is worse. But what really stings is being refused a life-saving ride to the hospital while you're gushing blood on the street. A 20-year-old Harlem man who was shot in his left arm in a housing project before running two blocks down 8th Ave to 150th street couldn't catch a cab to safety. A witness named "Strawberry" told the Post, "He tried to get a cab to take him to the hospital, but nobody was stopping for him. Four cabs passed him away." Note to the Post's editors: either her last name is "Shortcake," or someone may have counted on you not listening to a crucial line in a seminal N.W.A. track.

Luckily for the man, locals who saw his struggle brought him water and called an ambulance, which took him to Harlem Hospital where he was treated with non-life threatening injuries. Perhaps it's best that he never caught a ride, as the cabbie may have tried to tack on a "gunshot wound surcharge."

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By Christopher Robbins in News on July 25, 2011 5:02 PM

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wfpman

It doesn't make sense. Why is he trying to hail a cab? Call 9-1-1.

Nos Feratu

"Luckily for the man, locals who saw his struggle brought him water and called an ambulance..."

Never give anyone headed to the emergency room anything to eat or drink.

petey2

I wouldn't pick him up either. Get an ambulance. They can start first aid on scene.

RightWingGenius

F that. Its bad enought my tax dollars are paying his medical bills. I don't want to pay for his ambulance ride too. I say let him bleed before he heals and kills a hardworking bus driver or something.

whitecastlerock

Keep stealing the NY Post's content...

Ragingsemi

"A witness named Strawberry..."

Didn't he used to play for the Mets?

John Joyce

Actually, she works for a pimp named Slickback.

Perry

No, no...it's "A Pimp Named Slickback".

Ragingsemi

Love it...not many would know a pimp named Slickback.

AlexTheOriginalPartyDog

Slickback Lamar?

JPeditor

NINE ONE ONE...

John Joyce

Get up a get get get down 9 1 1's a joke in yo' town.

Peanut_Butter

They shot me. Help!
Henry, shut the door.
That was the first time I had ever seen anyone shot.
Can't have that in here. Jesus Christ!
I can't have that in this joint.
I remember feeling bad about the guy, but also feeling maybe Tuddy was right.
I knew Paulie didn't want anyone dying in the building.
You're a real jerk. You wasted fucking aprons on this guy.
What's wrong with you? I got to toughen this kid up.

birdtird

The cabbies gonna get blood all over his back seat and not going to get paid, plus he's not even sure he's helping a victim or a criminal . Pretty sure this fare's not in the job description. It is however, in the ambulances.

Greg Froober

don't you see the irony here Mr. Christopher Robbins?

by the tone of your post, I'm guessing the answer is no

armchair_warrior

who in the right mind would stop for a guy who is bleeding in the project, hell he could be a murder running away from a scene of a crime!!