May 29, 2024 • 5 mins
Gandhi had some taxi drama when she landed in Columbus, OH this past weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So much to talk about today, I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Hey, wait, where were you Gandhi when you were basically
kidnapped by a cab driver A taxi driver.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh my god. It was when I landed here at
the Columbus Airport. So on Friday, because the Memorial Day
weekend holiday was huge and everyone wants to travel. I
have never seen the airport as crowded as it was
on Friday. So the line to catch the shuttle bus
to the rental car facility was hours long. I mean,
people were falling asleep. It was chaos.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Across from that was a taxi stand. So I was like, hmm,
I wonder if I ask one of the cab drivers
if he will give me a ride to the rental
car place and I'll pay him, you know, like twenty
five bucks because it's half a mile. Will that work?
So they have people who kind of dispatch the taxis.
I asked that person. That person said, yeah, no problem,
they do it all the time. Hop on in. I
(00:55):
hop in. As soon as I'm in and the door
is shut and we start moving, the cab driver shuts off.
The meter and says forty five dollars. I was like,
what what absolutely not. I said, oh, no, you can
just let me out. That's okay. Because I didn't want
to haggle with him. I didn't want to argue. I said,
that's fine, just let me out. He wouldn't let me out.
There were three different places where I could have gotten
(01:16):
out safely. He would not stop. He passed the rental
car company and goes to the highway. So now I'm
getting very nervous. I started recording it on my phone
and I was like, oh.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
My god, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So he pulls over on the side of the highway
and goes get out. I said, what you want me
to get out on the side of the highway, He said,
I told you forty five dollars. If you're not going
to pay me forty five dollars, get out of my car.
So you're not getting anything at this point. But what
you are doing is very unsafe. I'm going to call
the police because I'm not sure what else to do.
I'm not going to stand on the side of the
freaking highway. This is crazy. It's dangerous for you, it's
(01:49):
dangerous for me. This is a bad idea. This is
not good. He finally turns around and goes back to
the rental car place. And as I'm getting out of
the car. Now, once we got there, I got a
little more bold because I was really angry at that point.
So now we're yelling at it. We were yelling at
each other. He was telling me I'm a bad person.
I'm going to hell, I'm the worst. But that's crazy, right,
(02:09):
that is kidnap. He took me away from the place,
and I was trying to doubt, okay, without doubt. So
what do you do in that situation? Like what it was?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
What did you do? You got out safely, then this
is the good news. But what did you do to
follow up on this thing?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So? I got his phone number, I got his license plate,
I got his name and the name of the company.
The company doesn't seem to care or want to do
anything about it. It's like a family owned type of
thing where you call, you get the voicemail, nobody calls
you back. I left a Google review about it. A
couple of people were saying I should tell the police
what happened because that's super dangerous. But I don't know.
I don't know if I want to escalate it to
(02:43):
that level. I'm not sure what to do. But it
was definitely scary and crazy, and I'm pretty sure that's illegal.
You can't just shut off your meter and then tell
somebody a different price than the initial quote right when
they're in your car.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Well, look, look there's a disagreement over the price, obviously
I get that. Yeah, but you don't just drive and
not let someone out dump them on the highway.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yes, there were three places, like if you know this airport,
there's a hotel, there's a McDonald's, and then there's a
rental lot or a car like a shuttle lot, whatever
it is, on the way over there. He could have
stopped any of those places, and he didn't, and then
he passed the other place where I actually wanted to
go and was trying to extort me for the forty
five dollars. Now, my sister says, I'm an idiot and
I should have just paid the forty five dollars and
(03:28):
gotten out, but I was so mad. I maybe I
should have in retrospect, but it was just so crazy
to me, and I did record it, so I have
his face. I have all of it. I just don't
know what to do.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Wow, all right, Well, I'm glad you're safe. But I
would say if any of us or anyone listening was
in that same situation, I can see how it would
be like, this is not happening. It's not real, right,
It's like, yeah, is there a camera on me? I mean,
this is not real right?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, why aren't you stopping? Let me out here? Let
me out here. It was nuts and the fact that
he was screaming at me and being a nut about it,
then it made me, you know, very defensive too. And
it was it was just not a good situation. It
was terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
What what's the name of the taxi company? Do you
want to get it?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I would love to hold on one second. Let me
make sure that I don't get this wrong. It is
hold on, I have to look for she is in Columbus,
by the way, this is in Columbus. It is Oh my.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
God, there's all these taxi company owners are going Please
don't say my name.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Columbus. Hold on, Yeah, yeah, sorry, I want to make
sure that I get the right one.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
If you've sort of kidnapped our entire show, right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's just called airport Columbus, Ohio taxi. So if you
go there, you're gonna see my horrible review and then
the two numbers that you get to call them. It
was going immediately to voicemail both of them. So I
left messages at both and nobody has called me back.
And I do have all of this guy's information.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Good wow, I'm glad you called him out. Text message
is coming in.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You should absolutely call the police, someone else says, and
this is kind of an interesting way of looking at it. Uh,
maybe you should get the police involved, because what if
this had happened to like a young girl who really
couldn't figure out how to maneuver through it as smartly
as you did. It could happen to anyone And maybe,
I mean you may have said the right things or
did the right whatever, the right thing to be safe
(05:14):
and get out of there. Maybe someone in that same
position would not have maneuvered the same way, and it
could be a dangerous situation.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
They tell you, well, I just don't. I definitely don't
want it to happen to anyone else. I think it
was ridiculous, the entire thing. And you know, I was
really torn when he pulled over on the side of
the highway? Do I get out and stand here on
the side of the highway? What do I do? That's
I see a review though, you see it?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, did you use foul language?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I did not. But I gave his name, I gave
the phone number, I gave the license plate, all of it.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yep, good, good, you know, and not everyone has a
radio show where they can talk about this kind of
stuff and call people out.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You know, yeah, that's right there.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You have
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So much to talk about today, I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Hey, wait, where were you Gandhi when you were basically
kidnapped by a cab driver A taxi driver.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Oh my god. It was when I landed here at
the Columbus Airport. So on Friday, because the Memorial Day
weekend holiday was huge and everyone wants to travel. I
have never seen the airport as crowded as it was
on Friday. So the line to catch the shuttle bus
to the rental car facility was hours long. I mean,
people were falling asleep. It was chaos.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Across from that was a taxi stand. So I was like, hmm,
I wonder if I ask one of the cab drivers
if he will give me a ride to the rental
car place and I'll pay him, you know, like twenty
five bucks because it's half a mile. Will that work?
So they have people who kind of dispatch the taxis.
I asked that person. That person said, yeah, no problem,
they do it all the time. Hop on in. I
(00:55):
hop in. As soon as I'm in and the door
is shut and we start moving, the cab driver shuts off.
The meter and says forty five dollars. I was like,
what what absolutely not. I said, oh, no, you can
just let me out. That's okay. Because I didn't want
to haggle with him. I didn't want to argue. I said,
that's fine, just let me out. He wouldn't let me out.
There were three different places where I could have gotten
(01:16):
out safely. He would not stop. He passed the rental
car company and goes to the highway. So now I'm
getting very nervous. I started recording it on my phone
and I was like, oh.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
My god, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So he pulls over on the side of the highway
and goes get out. I said, what you want me
to get out on the side of the highway, He said,
I told you forty five dollars. If you're not going
to pay me forty five dollars, get out of my car.
So you're not getting anything at this point. But what
you are doing is very unsafe. I'm going to call
the police because I'm not sure what else to do.
I'm not going to stand on the side of the
freaking highway. This is crazy. It's dangerous for you, it's
(01:49):
dangerous for me. This is a bad idea. This is
not good. He finally turns around and goes back to
the rental car place. And as I'm getting out of
the car. Now, once we got there, I got a
little more bold because I was really angry at that point.
So now we're yelling at it. We were yelling at
each other. He was telling me I'm a bad person.
I'm going to hell, I'm the worst. But that's crazy, right,
(02:09):
that is kidnap. He took me away from the place,
and I was trying to doubt, okay, without doubt. So
what do you do in that situation? Like what it was?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
What did you do? You got out safely, then this
is the good news. But what did you do to
follow up on this thing?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So? I got his phone number, I got his license plate,
I got his name and the name of the company.
The company doesn't seem to care or want to do
anything about it. It's like a family owned type of
thing where you call, you get the voicemail, nobody calls
you back. I left a Google review about it. A
couple of people were saying I should tell the police
what happened because that's super dangerous. But I don't know.
I don't know if I want to escalate it to
(02:43):
that level. I'm not sure what to do. But it
was definitely scary and crazy, and I'm pretty sure that's illegal.
You can't just shut off your meter and then tell
somebody a different price than the initial quote right when
they're in your car.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Well, look, look there's a disagreement over the price, obviously
I get that. Yeah, but you don't just drive and
not let someone out dump them on the highway.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yes, there were three places, like if you know this airport,
there's a hotel, there's a McDonald's, and then there's a
rental lot or a car like a shuttle lot, whatever
it is, on the way over there. He could have
stopped any of those places, and he didn't, and then
he passed the other place where I actually wanted to
go and was trying to extort me for the forty
five dollars. Now, my sister says, I'm an idiot and
I should have just paid the forty five dollars and
(03:28):
gotten out, but I was so mad. I maybe I
should have in retrospect, but it was just so crazy
to me, and I did record it, so I have
his face. I have all of it. I just don't
know what to do.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Wow, all right, Well, I'm glad you're safe. But I
would say if any of us or anyone listening was
in that same situation, I can see how it would
be like, this is not happening. It's not real, right,
It's like, yeah, is there a camera on me? I mean,
this is not real right?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, why aren't you stopping? Let me out here? Let
me out here. It was nuts and the fact that
he was screaming at me and being a nut about it,
then it made me, you know, very defensive too. And
it was it was just not a good situation. It
was terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
What what's the name of the taxi company? Do you
want to get it?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I would love to hold on one second. Let me
make sure that I don't get this wrong. It is
hold on, I have to look for she is in Columbus,
by the way, this is in Columbus. It is Oh my.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
God, there's all these taxi company owners are going Please
don't say my name.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Columbus. Hold on, Yeah, yeah, sorry, I want to make
sure that I get the right one.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
If you've sort of kidnapped our entire show, right.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's just called airport Columbus, Ohio taxi. So if you
go there, you're gonna see my horrible review and then
the two numbers that you get to call them. It
was going immediately to voicemail both of them. So I
left messages at both and nobody has called me back.
And I do have all of this guy's information.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Good wow, I'm glad you called him out. Text message
is coming in.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You should absolutely call the police, someone else says, and
this is kind of an interesting way of looking at it. Uh,
maybe you should get the police involved, because what if
this had happened to like a young girl who really
couldn't figure out how to maneuver through it as smartly
as you did. It could happen to anyone And maybe,
I mean you may have said the right things or
did the right whatever, the right thing to be safe
(05:14):
and get out of there. Maybe someone in that same
position would not have maneuvered the same way, and it
could be a dangerous situation.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
They tell you, well, I just don't. I definitely don't
want it to happen to anyone else. I think it
was ridiculous, the entire thing. And you know, I was
really torn when he pulled over on the side of
the highway? Do I get out and stand here on
the side of the highway? What do I do? That's
I see a review though, you see it?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, did you use foul language?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I did not. But I gave his name, I gave
the phone number, I gave the license plate, all of it.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yep, good, good, you know, and not everyone has a
radio show where they can talk about this kind of
stuff and call people out.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
You know, yeah, that's right there.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
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