When a New York City cab driver takes you to
LaGuardia Airport by way of the Battery Park
Underpass, circling around the
financial district. It's a quick but needlessly long route. From the movie Star Trek IV, in which Captain Kirk slingshots the Enterprise around the sun to warp back in time.
"He did some kind of slingshot around the sun... took
2 minutes but
added $10 to the
fare! That's the last time I let anyone do that."
