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Coked-up cab-jacker gets 11 years for dangerous joy ride

A coked up, booze-addled, bi-polar cab-jacker was sentenced to 11 years prison today for taking a taxi on a high-speed joy ride from Delancey Street to Union Square, where he wrapped the vehicle around a lamp pole.

“I think it’s a miracle that you didn’t kill anybody,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Daniel Convisor told California drifter Michael Findley.

“It’s only dumb luck or the grace of God that this was not a murder case,” the judge told the ex-con, who according to the totaled cab’s black box had been driving 80 miles an hour on that pre-dawn morning in February, 2011.

Findley, 33, has had eleven other convictions in New York in the past six years, including for punching another cabby rather than pay his fare and sneaking into an $8,000 a night suite at The Plaza without paying.

“He torpedoed through Union Square,” prosecutor Carolina Chavez told the judge of Findley’s 30-block odyssey.

He’d taken the stand in his own defense last winter to describe himself to jurors as a “socialite,” a “party promoter,” and a wealthy frequenter of the Hamptons. He’d only taken the cab — at first driving off with the cabby still cowering inside — because the cabby had groped “my private parts,” he’d insisted in his bizarre testimony.

Speaking today at his sentencing, Findley further embellished his resume, claiming he’s been working as a nightlife consultant with the likes of “Madonna, the Olsens, royalty,” at The Plaza and other top hotels.

He was “about to get a record deal,” he told the judge, calling himself, “The next big thing.”

“I maintain my innocence,” he said. “I want to apologize if I was disrespectful to the court in any way. . .I was extremely intoxicated,” he admitted. “I shouldn’t have been behind the wheel.”

He added, “I feel remorse that I endangered the lives of New Yorkers… I endangered my own life. “