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Cabbies Still Really Don’t Want to Drive You to Brooklyn

NEW YORK - MARCH 10:  A woman is hailing a yellow cab on Lower Manhatten on March 10, 2010 in New York, New York. Yellow taxis have been playing their trade in New York since 1912, becoming an icon synonymous with the "Big Apple" immoratalised in countless films and TV shows  around the world.  (Photo by Jan Johannessen/Getty Images) Get out of my cab, you Brooklyn devil!

Despite a recent law upping fines for refusing to take a rider anywhere they want to go within the city limits, cab drivers hailed in Manhattan still won't travel to an outer borough about 27 percent of the time, according to an undercover sting recently carried out by the TLC. Instead of earning money for driving their car across a bridge, each cabbie was fined $500.

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Photo: Jan Johannessen/Getty Images