Thank you Billy. Not embellishing though. Relaying as close to verbatim as recollection allows. I really do use that language when people deserve it. Riding in NYC... yelling is half the fun.

And to be fair, it probably wasn't a gypsy cab, it had T (ie T123456C) plates and was probably an Uber and I did not observe it making any illegal street pickups.

For background: In NYC there is a tendency to call every non-yellow (non-medallion) cab a gypsy cab.

Primarily because they have a long history of making illegal street pickups when not on dispatch call. Especially in the boroughs where they line up and block traffic at every train station, and honk at intersections when empty hoping for an illegal non-dispatched pickup.

Then there's the crazy "dollar cab" / dollar van routes up and down the main roads where they honk at every pedestrian hoping to be waved to add another illegal pickup to their already packed vehicle.

From wikipedia on Dollars Vans in NYC: "Dollar vans and other jitneys mainly serve low-income, immigrant communities that lack sufficient bus and subway service." This is complete lie. The dollar vans run straight up and down the most travelled routes, which always have subway and often redundant surface bus service. They exist because they charge a dollar (vs 2.75 for city transit), they pick up wherever you stand and stick a hand out, and drop off wherever you ask. This is convenient for the passengers.... and a complete hazard for all other traffic as they swerve unpredictably to pick up potential passengers. And it can be quite the competitive free-for-all melee w/ more than one dollar van trying to get to a potential passenger first!!!!

Also the wiki picture of the dollar van in NYC is complete BS. They're almost always old beat up passenger vans like this one, except you have to add the 6 ft, hand bent, whip antenna for the CB radio they use to talk to each other about where the police are.