A possible LEO decoy on Rt. 1 ??
Crusied Rt. 1, from about 11pm to Midnight, last night and saw something that made me extremely suspicious. There were a pair of brand-spankin' new Yellow Cabs (not the ones that are all yellow in color, but the ones that are mostly black with yellow trim) that I kept seeing along that corridor. One was a sedan type vehicle (typical cab shape), the other was boxier, almost like an HHR or similar style. Neither looked like they had been in service for very long. and neither ever seemed to be carrying passengers, either.
One, the HHR-type, sat in the Chuckie Cheese parking lot for a long time. When I drove past along the service road, I noticed a display monitor screen, the flat-panel type like many LEO patrol cars have rather than the smallish displays one typically sees in cabs. It was almost as though these cabs were acting as UC LEO decoys and simply relaying info to the LEO patrol cars (and one paddy wagon) that were having a field day --- or, rather, a field night --- on Rt. 1 last night. The whole strip looked like a hog farm and smelled like bacon.
I [U]could[/U] be mistaken, but my 6th sense says "No." I am going to try and make profile on one of these "cabs", and even get a few pictures and license plate numbers if I'm able. In the mean time, fellow mongers may want to keep a wary eye out for Yellow Cab taxis when they are cruising Rt. 1.
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P.S. --- One other reason I suspect these taxis were UC LEO: I twice saw them, or taxis identical to them, pull up to each other in a "head-to-tail" manner (i.e., so that the driver's side windows were next to each other), as if to confer about something. These are actions that LEO often does, but which cabbies seldom seem to do. After a few moments, one would pull away and back onto the streets.