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Originally Posted by glatt
There was a little thing on NPR his morning about the pedicabs here in DC. Apparently the US Park Police are actively targeting them right now. There are supposedly some rules (not explained in the story) about where they can stop and pick up passengers and where they can operate. The Park Police wait for the pedicabs to pick up tourists on the Mall, and then they pull them over and write expensive tickets for them and tell the tourists they don't have to pay the fare.
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If I were the tourist, I'd probably pay anyway. I'm sure there are more people who would be all like "oh sweet FREE RIDE" but I think I would be like "dude, that was effed up...here's the fare anyway, it's only fair."