Shocking Video: NYC Cabby Tries to Drag Passenger Out of Cab
- Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:55am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Here’s the law in New York City: if a yellow-cab cabby picks you up, he has to take you anywhere within the five burroughs. But there are a lot of cabbies who don’t really like that rule, and if you tell them to take you somewhere you want to go, they’ll refuse. Many times, the passenger will just throw up his arms in disgust and get out. But that’s not what these two girls did.
Below is video of two female passengers who hailed a cab in Midtown Manhattan and asked to be taken across the East River to Brooklyn. The cabby refused and screamed at them to get out. They wouldn’t. Then this happened. The audio is chilling:
[Content Warning: Contains graphic language]
NY Post says the two ladies are Michelle, 31, and Amy, also 31 who tried to catch the ride on Sunday. They asked their last names not be used because they are afraid of the cabby. More from the Post:
“I kept saying, ‘You have to. It’s the law,’ ” recounted Michelle, who works for an Internet company. “He kept screaming at us to ‘get out, get out,‘ but we wouldn’t.”
“Then he said, ‘You’re gonna be sorry!’ and took off up Sixth Avenue,” she added.
“He was driving erratically, doing the ‘gas-and-brake’ thing, going in and out of lanes,” said Amy, an editor. “He was swearing, calling us ‘bitches.’ He was very angry.”
The driver then turned onto 48th Street, the women said, and pulled over. He got out, popped his hood and tried to lure them out of the cab, telling them the cab was “broken,” they said.
When his passengers didn’t fall for it, he got back behind the wheel, drove another few feet and stopped again.
He flung open the back door and then lunged when he saw he was being videotaped on a cellphone.
After the hack backed off, he approached “four or five” other cabs to take the women to Bed-Stuy, and finally found one. They gave that driver $35 for a $25 fare.
(H/T: Gawker)
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Comments (63)
J.Canuck
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 2:45pmI am a cabbie. If I don’t want you in my car, you won’t be there for long, and no I won‘t take you someplace I don’t want to go. Trying to force cabbies to take obviously dangerous passengers to obviously dangerous places is a crime. For that matter, so is the price fixing common in communist cities like New York. I thank God I live in a place where there is little danger and a free market in transportation.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 2:42pmI don t blame him , i don t want to go anywhere above the Mason-Dixie line ,, you animals can have your zoo
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 2:23pmWhy did they want to go to Brooklyn? Someone should have asked. It would be interesting to know.. They really did not look like the Brooklyn “.types”.. Were they “working” girls…lol?
Report Post »sonseeker
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 12:21amshouldn’t you be able to discern that, Carnac?
Report Post »jeff.cooper
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 2:21pmThe law is silly. How is it reasonable that the city dictates how any business is run?
Report Post »bubbie
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 2:13pmI live in Tennessee and I have been to New York One time and I swear I will never go back. People were so rude and not polite at all.
Report Post »b0mbtrack1
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 2:00pmSee what stupid laws do, these women were just causing trouble.
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:41pmYea, I have to go with the other comments here. The first mistake is being in NY. You’re supposed to act like a self-absorbed non-english speaking jerk over there.
Report Post »dwntwnbrowne
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:41pm“investigating”? His union won’t fire his sorry arse.
Report Post »Your Name Here
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:30pmThe taxi drivers must be lawyers or government employees.
Report Post »They don’t want to do any real work or follow any of the laws.
orangeelephant
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:20pmDont try to make sense of this. It is liberalizm eating itself.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:19pmShocking no- annoying yes
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:07pmI always thought the cab driver had discretion on who he picks up and where he takes them. For safety reasons. This is a prime example of the NY attitude. These ladies became part of the problem and allowed it to escalate in to what it became. If the driver don’t want to take you somewhere, then find another taxi. Not that hard to do in NYC, im sure.
Report Post »NEL
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:58pmThis is why I stay in my quiet little rural area where cabs don’t even exist
Report Post »canuck44
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:56pmDeport the trash.
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:07pmI’m with you, deport the trash. Now, what country do we send you tea partiers to?
Report Post »trooper
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:55pmFellow human girls chimping out, they did not want to go there either and guess why? You guessed it, maybe would mean giving up their lives, allot of bad non-humans over there!
Report Post »Gasparri
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:50pmBrooklyn? I would not want to take anyone there either. Now if they has wanted to go to Queens…
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:28pmThat is service. cabs are a total rip off cant believe people still use them I rather walk or ride a bike then pay super high prices like they charge and demand tips
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 7:55amIn many large cities, there are large areas where one wouldn’t want to be caught walking or biking through. Day OR night! Cabs are a combination of safe and quick/flexible for those city-dwellers that can afford it. Those that can’t hop a turnstile on the subway. The bus systems are typically a mess, nearly as risky as the subway and not nearly as fast.
Due to unions, many city cab companies & drivers operate under a combination (often conflicting) of some pretty strange laws, regulations, and union rules. All this bureaucratic minefield has one thing in common: it has little to nothing to do with making taking a cab cheaper, more useful, or a better experience for passengers.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:25pmFreakin foreigners acting like animals. Enough said, America’s urban areas are now third world cesspools, I know, I live 20 miles north of one that forbids citizens to own handguns and I don’t venture there unarmed ever.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:24pmFirst mistake is being in NY. That is a very good state to stay out of, just like California.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:41pmThat fresh sea air seems to make the left and right coast folks a little nuts.
Report Post »manray favjet
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:23pmShocking! Just shocking… NOT.
Not sure which was worse, The stupid cabbie or the two light weight twits.
Report Post »Pilgrim Bill
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:19pmsorry caps got locked
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:05pmHow are cabbies paid? do they get a percentage of the fares they collect or are they paid by the hour? Why would a cabbie refuse to take a passenger? Does anyone know why this happens?
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:16pm@untameable-kate, they are trying to become union,so they are just trying to get a head start on the why they are suppose to treat people, i can’t believe they paid him,he would have to just eat it,because i would not have paid him, then tip too, no way
Report Post »Pilgrim Bill
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:18pmsaFTY THEY DONT LIKE TO DIE
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:21pmI think the fare and tip went to the other driver that finally took them to their destination. That is how I read it.
Report Post »It still seems like the cabbies are shooting themselves in the foot if the rufuse to take passengers.
willbedone
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:29pmSince THE NYC gubmint can’t / wont secure the area and make it safe, the taxi drivers fear for their safety and don’t want to get robbed or killed.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:29pmKate It’s MOSTLY because not of this Middle Eastern cabbie who was obviously still mad about Bin Laden getting offed, it‘s the ones who won’t go into Harlem that they’re trying to make go there (even though half end up robbed and or dead) and the surrounding ghettos that the law was written for.
That’s a fact, the non PC version. ;)
Report Post »Conservative Hippy
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:48pmGenerally I believe they get paid whatever is left after the cab rental fee and fuel… so say they get $500 in fares that day… they pay a $200 rental fee and $60 in gas… the keep $240 + whatever tips…
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:08pmThanks guys, I have never lived in a big city and have never been anywhere near NY. I have rarely taken a cab anywhere so not taking a fare doesn’t seem to make any sense. I didn‘t even think about Harlem and whatever other nasty parts of NY the cabbie wouldn’t want to drive into. Is Brooklyn bad?
I promise to proof my comments better so hopefully you will never see me type the words like rufuse (refuse) or the (they).
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:11pmThe last time I was in Brooklin it was all black.
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 6:50pmSo what is your point ezdosit. For the record brooklyn is not “all black” lots of different races live there.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:03pmRight now I don’t care for this .
Report Post »I’m still celebrating !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Showtime
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:25pmI’m wondering why they post videos with graphic language but censor what we write by replacing it with “*********.”
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:01pmUm…ok?
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:57ami wouldnt want to go to Broklyn either….
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:18pmI would not want to go anywhere in New York. I’m just a country boy.
Report Post »bassist237
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:21pmCrabby Cabbie.
Report Post »D0ntTread0nMe
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:27pmTHIS is why people like me hate N.Y. click on my blog and click a google ad… it’s full of fiber!
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dealer@678
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:45pmWhat would that muslim have done if one of the women said her husband was a Seal. I have a good idea
Report Post »MASTER YODA
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:51pmJust using the force, he was. Yes, hmmm.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:57pmGod above, I grew up here in the deserts and am use to tough conditions; it seems with some cabs in NYC the SEAL’s would be the best safe guards around…one complaint by the cabbie…oh well.
Report Post »Whitey4West
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:03pmthis is dumb….
Report Post »White Ninja
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:03pm@DEALER@678
Really? That‘s what you’re going with? You’re an embarrassment to The Blaze and to yourself.
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:23pmI’ve always had good experience with New York cabbies. They work really hard, long hours.
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 2:51pmWhat was the point of this? The women seemed like trouble makers to me. And I can’t blame the cabbie for not wanting to go to Brooklyn. You don’t like it? Get another cab.
Sorry, but this one was a waste of time…..
Report Post »AriBenTZion
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 2:55pmThe last time I caught a cab was in state of New Jersey. The cab driver was wearing Taqiyah so I would assume that he was a Muslim.
He looked at me and noticed that I was wearing a Star. After seeing the Star I was wearing, he behaved as though he were a Vampire that had just seen a cross.
He did take me to my destination but never spoke another word.
Report Post »Arminianism
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 3:36pmThe girls sounds like morons… I would have drove their butts in the opposite direction until they agreed to get out
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:01pmDon’t Tread On Me you do realize that it is against the terms of service for Google to ask people to click on your links. You can get banned from AdSense for that.
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