It was a typical New York story until the taxi stopped. Paul Bruno and Erick Ruales, a pair of professionals who also happen to be romantically involved, say they started kissing and hugging right after they got in the cab at 13th and 1st Avenue. Evidently driver Medhat Mohamed was focused as much on the rear view mirror as the street. After just two blocks, the canoodling men say Mohamed said something about “no hugging” and tossed them out.

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