STAN FREBERG HERE...Two Strange Manhattan Items
Stan Freberg here. In New York now, you can hail a phone booth. "Did you say, 'hail a phone booth'?" Yes. News on that story, plus a little-known law regarding naked mannequins, after this. [:60 SPOT BREAK]
Freberg here with a couple of strange Manhattan items. In New York City, a little-known traffic law exists to help protect drivers from crashing into things. It makes it illegal to leave a naked dress mannequin in a store window.
Too bad for chiropractors. Be a lot of work straightening out whiplash from cab drivers doing double-takes at the dummies. But, hey! That law is out-of-date. You can see a lot worse on TV every night than a couple of store window mannequins without their clothes.
Speaking of New York cabbies, people can now hail a phone booth, in a manner of speaking. Under a new program started by the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission, 200 taxicabs will offer the use of cellular pay phones--about a dollar seventy-five a minute for local calls, more for long distance.
People in New York are always complaining about being unable to find either a pay phone or a taxi. Now they can hail a cab and a phone booth at the same time. A sign on top of the taxi reads, "Hail this cab--it has a phone!"
Sounds like a good idea to me, especially for young people who never like to be too far from a phone--"Joe, I'm running a little bit late, okay? I'm calling from a cab and--hold it! I think I just saw a naked woman in that store window!"
Stan Freberg here.
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