I opened the door of the moving cab and began to yell "HELP" three times
Date of Occurrence:Â Â Â Feb. 4, 2008
Time of Occurrence:Â Â Â 11:15pm
Location of Occurrence:Â Â Â Â City of Las Vegas, NV
Comments:
           Taxi Driver: Hailut Permit # Cab Type: SUV #4335 (?) Occupants: Mark and Kim Complaint: 1. Driver refused to take us to our hotel. 2. Driver refused three times to stop and let us out when we requested. 3. Driver called another cab driver to assist him in possible retaliation toward us. We were picked up at The Palms and told the taxi driver our destination was the Hilton Garden Inn to the south, he acknowledged this by repeating it in English. As we crossed over Highway 15 the driver turned north. My husband told him the hotel was south. The driver said “Las Vegas Hilton, north”, again we repeated our destination is The Hilton Garden Inn to the south. My husband and I requested he pull over and let us out, the driver began speaking in another language and kept driving, two more times my husband told the driver to stop, but the driver just spoke in another language we did not understand and continued to drive in the wrong direction. At this point I became concerned for our safety, I reached forward and took his license which my husband wrote down his name and # and I opened the door of the moving cab and began to yell “HELP” three times; the driver pulled over on a darkened side street and my husband told me as we got out that the driver had “called for a friend to come”, and another cab drove up and its driver began to yell at us. There was a third cab who was not involved close by and he picked us up and took us to our hotel and also gave us the phone # to call and make a complaint.
