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."
