LOOPHOLE OPENS ONTO THE STREET.(MAIN)

Byline: TRACEY TULLY Staff writer

Albany It was just before midnight on a hot August night when one teenager climbed into the passenger seat of Kenneth Rossman's cab. The other approached the driver-side window. Within seconds, there was a gun and a demand for money.

``It was a big gun. It looked like he could hardly hold it right,'' said Rossman, 44, who lives in Colonie and has been driving and dispatching taxis most his life.

Rossman rolled the dice. He pushed the gun toward the ground and pressed the gas pedal to the floor, trapping the alleged accomplice in the car. Minutes later, with the one teenager still in the cab, Rossman was telling …