I wonder how the thief fenced the limbs. Who's going to buy discount prosthetic limbs fitted for a random woman?

Phew. Taking a cab home at night puts you in a vulnerable spot even if you have a phone to call the police (he could still beat you up / worse while you wait for them to show up). In New York I've found the Taxi & Limousine Commission is pretty receptive to after-the-fact complaints, though.

Yikes. Did you call the police with the first dude?

Yeah, there are. The New York Human Rights Law.

Modern courts tend to frown on "separate but equal" as an argument to allow segregation in public accommodations.

Yeah. http://www.nyc.gov/html/cchr/html…

Well, also it seems illegal to discriminate by gender in hiring and providing the service. And by seems I mean is, unless the city gives them some kind of dispensation. http://www.nyc.gov/html/cchr/html…

This seems distinctly illegal under New York City law. The city explicitly mentions taxis as a service that cannot discriminate on gender grounds in providing services, and employment discrimination is illegal in the city and federally. http://www.nyc.gov/html/cchr/html…

So what was your point? That he does deserve to rot in jail while he awaits trial, or that non-whites disproportionately rot in jail while they await trial? Because if it's the latter I think everyone who reads this site, including the original commenter, is well aware of that. The original commenter was not in any…

My experience is in federal court, and in bail hearings I have seen the defendant has had to put up property and find co-signers. I don't know how Oklahoma state court works.

So because many people are wrongly incarcerated without bail pretrial, all people should be wrongly incarcerated without bail pretrial for consistency's sake? Got it.

I agree with your post except for the evidence tampering portion. That's a serious crime itself and even a whiff of it would likely result in his bail being revoked.

He's not a criminal at this point either, he's presumed innocent. The purpose of pre-trial detention is not to punish — it's to ensure a defendant's presence at court dates and protect the public from possible threats.

Unless he has $500,000 in cash, he probably got bail by staking his house. Bail like this, at least in the federal system, also usually includes several "financially responsible persons" as co-signers. Those people, usually a close relative, would be on the hook for all that money if he misses a court date. So there…

This post is just full of problems. He also says "breaks" and never mentions how much the bike actually weighs in a real unit of measure.

It's "brakes," not "breaks"!

An 800-word reaction to at most 280 characters of tweets. Good to see you've still got it, Jezebel.

I will take an ASCII art trophy at your earliest convenience.

The plural of anecdote ain't data. But I'll concede that having one percent of the population speak a language other than Japanese as their mother tongue is more diverse than say, pre-contact Incan civilization.

That may all be true, but two percent foreign born speaks to a lack of diversity itself. Canada, for example, is about 20 percent foreign born.