Filed a complaint against a taxi driver?

Hi, has any one filed a complaint against a cab driver and then gone to the court to follow up?
We had a really bad experience last night with a cab driver. (Short version: accident on 4thAve/Atlantic/ Flatbush intersection- hope all ok there-driver got mad because of traffic- started yelling at us, kicked us out of cab- didn't want to pay- sped up and we had to open the door to make him stop the cab to let us out) I was afraid it was going to become violent.
Any advice would be helpful.
thanks

I've never filed a complaint but I called 311 from my cell phone while in a cab when the driver refused to take me to Brooklyn (from downtown Manhattan). Do you have all his info? I'd lodge a complaint on principle. He sounds like a jackass.

As an African American man, I've been to taxi court at least 5 times (although their behavior seems to have improved in the last 4 or 5 years). If you have the taxi number you can file your complaint on nyc.gov. You need to explain the incident and you will receive a date for an administrative court appearance. Basically you and the cab driver meet with a retired judge, tell your stories and the judge decides who's in the right. If the cabbie doesn't show up, you win and he or she is fined (if I remember correctly one fine was $450). Even if there is no judgment the driver has to take the time off to attend with hits him where it counts, in the pocket.

thanks- I filed the complaint. I have had bad cab experiences before, but this was just so crazy.
I guess I just want the guy to know- it isn't ok to treat people like that.

I am sorry that you had to go so many times.

Minet wrote: thanks- I filed the complaint. I have had bad cab experiences before, but this was just so crazy.
I guess I just want the guy to know- it isn't ok to treat people like that.

this is totally the right thing to do. it's only chance that his behavior might change.

Carlton Banks wrote: As an African American man, .

what's that got to do with anything :?: :?:

electricgreek wrote: [quote=Carlton Banks]As an African American man, .

what's that got to do with anything :?: :?:
Sheesh, EVERYONE knows the taxi court is one of the _primary_ hang outs for African American men. Get with the program, it's almost 2009 already.

electricgreek wrote: [quote=Carlton Banks]As an African American man, .

what's that got to do with anything :?: :?:

Oh, ask my husband, he'll tell you. It doesn't happen so much anymore, but cabs used to never stop for him in Manhattan because they assumed he lived way out in Brooklyn somewhere. Of course, now all types of people live waaaay out in the middle of Brooklyn somewhere, so this doesn't happen as much anymore.

electricgreek... i'm assuming your comment is facetious. if you need an explanation let me know.

grammatically, carlton banks meant that he went to court as an african-american man, as opposed to in his filipina drag persona or as his less-well-known clown character, Guglielmo Macaroni, inventor of radio-transmitted pasta.

sweet tea wrote: Guglielmo Macaroni, inventor of radio-transmitted pasta.

Now if it were Bologna, now _that_ really would have BEEN something...

daver wrote: [quote=sweet tea]Guglielmo Macaroni, inventor of radio-transmitted pasta.

Now if it were Bologna, now _that_ really would have BEEN something...

many historians believe that macaroni's disappointment over his thousands of failed attempts to transmit meats and cheeses drove him to insanity and, ultimately, to an early grave. in his last years, his habit of wandering the streets, haranguing passersby with nonsense about amino acid wave length while fluttering his hands to indicate passage through the air earned him the nickname "feathering guglielmo". cruelly, it is this nickname that has persisted in the public eye, long after the achievements of his early career were taken for granted. some say that his son was driven to a hermitic life by his futile attempts to suppress "yankee doodle dandy", which he claimed denigrated his father's memory.