BEg2 ch30 paragraph 5

[Michael Bailey]

“That terrible morning, so it was later alleged, for a radius of many
blocks surrounding the towers, every pushcart disappeared, as if the
population of pushcart owners, at that time believed to be most of them
Muslim, had been warned to keep away. Through some network. Some evil
secret rugrider network possibly in place for years. The pushcarts stayed
away, and so the morning began that much less comfortably, obliging folks
to go in to work without their customary coffees, danishes, donuts, bottles
of water, so many bleak appoggiaturas for what was about to happen.”


         Is there any basis in fact for this?

Re: taxicabs - Snopes has
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fare-whether-friend/

Also mentions similar rumors about other businesses & pretty effectively
debunks them.