Once they realized the wife was listed as owner of the car, they still ticketed her. For being an illegal "fare" in her own vehicle????? Wtf!

You'd think by that stage they would have been preparing excuses, not digging the hole deeper.

The inconvenience, the utter humiliation, and the downright harassment of not getting their car back immediately should be made a memorable example of--one with big headlines and big consequences.

I forget his name (unfortunately) because he's friggin' hysterical. I believe he's Indian, and he does a bit about a women jumping into the backseat of his car at the airport because she thought he was a cabbie.

Really funny stuff.

The punchline is "I made $50," after trying fruitlessly for some time to explain to her that he wasn't a taxi driver.

Here's the shocking part: I can't find it on Youtube.

Calls himself a "Pewfie", his conflation of "Pakistani" and Newfoundland dweller ("Newfie&quot .

Makes a lot of observations on ethnicity.

Took a while, but I found him

Hari Kondabolu

http://www.harikondabolu.com/

Really funny guy.

But Russell Peters is funny, too.

And the link!

I thought racism only happened in the South.
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Even if she was white, they'd still be wrong for ASSuming he was a cab driver based on the passenger's race.

Elderly people like Donald Sterling may say awful things, but this type of crap is, without a doubt, the real thing.

what decade is the TLC operating in?

This is ludricrous and so disgusting on several levels. Hope they win the lawsuit - full amount, may be then the TLC will re-think their backward and racist ideas.

Smart.

Brick wall right behind them, so the grass would be a blatant giveaway.

Still funny as heck.

At least in the eyes of the racist cops who pulled him over

of course, who knows what the cops would have done then....

and claimed they saw him reach for something, thought it was a gun, felt threatened, and so pumped a hundred rounds into him. He got off lucky. They both did.

And the husband for whatever the charge is for obtaining the services of a prostitute.

From the OP link:

This started out as a typical profiling case. Hell, TLC might have had a good excuse for stopping the guy: he drove a Lincoln Town Car--often used as a taxi, and his wife rode in the back seat, like a taxi passenger would, as opposed to a spouse.

But when TLC heard the facts, that she was in the back seat because the front passenger seat was wet from recent rains, and that it was her car, they should have let them go and not kept her car. Unbelievable.

Enforcement -- it doesnt matter. NYC gov. has a long tradition of corruption, arrogance and unaccountability.