I thought you might be interested in this story from the New York Post. Hack from hell A disturbed yellow-cab driver locked a college student in his car during a wild ride from Grand Central Terminal to her New Jersey campus that was so terrifying, she didn’t expect to make it out alive, she charges in legal papers. “Let me the f--k out!” Gabbi Gershowitz begged Rene Jourdain. “You’re gonna f--king kill me, I’m scared. I want to get out.” Gershowitz, 21, says the nightmare began March 24, when she hailed Jourdain, 74, for a ride from Grand Central Terminal to Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck. When they reached the George Washington Bridge, Jourdain suddenly stopped the car to work on his GPS at the entrance — as drivers sped by blowing their horns. Gershowitz offered to use her phone’s GPS and Jourdain floored the gas — swerving in and out of his lane, she says in a claim filed with the city comptroller. “He proceeded to call my GPS stupid and broken because he kept going the wrong way,” Gershowitz said. “Blaming it on me and my phone.” She said she told Jourdain what exit to take — but he went flying past it, and then blew off two more exits. When they reached MetLife Stadium, he took a closed ramp as she screamed at him to stop. “I was scared for my life,” she wrote in her claim. “I kept yelling at him to stop and that he was going to kill me.” “He grabbed my arm and told me to shut the hell up,” said Gershowitz. “Then I flipped. Like a movie scene.” When they finally reached her campus, Jourdain demanded $120, although they had agreed on $80. Security guards surrounded the cab to help her, but the driver took off with a bag that contains a machine Gershowitz, who has Goldenhar syndrome, needs to help her breathe. She filed a complaint with the Taxi and Limousine Commission, who helped her get the bag back. Jourdain was found guilty of one moving violation Sept. 30, after he took a plea deal, sources said. The TLC suspended his license Nov. 12 when he didn’t pay the $200 fine. “The TLC took this complaint seriously, as it does all complaints, and the matter was appropriately adjudicated,” said agency spokesman Allan Fromberg. For more on the New York Post and to download our apps, visit NYPost
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:35:08 +0000
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