Red & White Taxi Cab Company of San Franciso

I never knew there was a problem of fake unlicensed taxi in San Francisco. Now I do. I wish I had called 911 when this driver started threatening me.
March
I flagged down this taxi in Potrero Hill. It was a yellow and red SUV. The driver was a slender guy around 45 with a Mediterranean or Arabic appearance. I notice immediatly that it smell like very strong tobacco or weed but he was not smoking. I asked if he took debit cards as I had no cash on me. He said yes and I gave him the address. I noticed he was taking a different route and I asked him to take me via Fell to my destination but he said he wasn’t going to and he knew the right way.
When we got to the location, I handed him the card and that’s when things went to hell. He asked me how much of a tip I was giving him and I said I just wanted to pay the fare. He said if I wasn’t giving him a tip that I had to pay in cash and I told him I didn’t have cash and that I just wanted to pay. He still had my atm card in his hands and wouldn’t give it back. He said I had to go to an atm machine and he had my card so he knew I could. He then claimed that the machine was broken and I told him I knew it was working, then he said that he would be charged 5 percent and have to report the earning. I told him I didn’t care and that if he could either run the card and get paid, give back my card and not get the fare or we could call the police and that I wanted his badge number. That’s when I realized that he had no fare sheet nor taxi badge displayed. He freaked out and swung his arm back and threaten and called me fag. I started dialing 911 and then suddenly he runs my card through the «broken» card machine and throws the card at me screaming faggot get out of my car before I kill your fag ass. I grabbed my card shocked and dashed out of the car but he stayed there screaming out the window that all the fags should be killed and he wanted to it. I tried to take a picture of the car and the license plate but he speed away.
I called the taxi commission and found out that there is no Red & White taxi company register in San Francisco and they have no record of that company have a taxi license. I was able to give then information for the charge on my debit card but they said it’s for a business in NYC.
If you see this cab DO NOT get in it. Even better if you see it call the police.

Date: Friday May 21, 2010.
Place: Haight-​Ashbury District (Haight & Cole Streets)
Event: I was in the middle of the Crosswalk (The one with the huge painted lines on Haight Street. You know… One of the those places that something called Califonia State Law requires that vehicles stop at when there are people crossing the street within.) So, I’m in the middle of the crosswalk and — since I value my life and limb and there was a MUNI bus obstructing the view (stopped in the crosswalk) — I paused to make sure I wasn’t going to get run down by a reckless driver… When, lo and behold, a Reckless Driver of a Red & White Taxi Cab of San Francisco Taxi (Cab Number 161) blew through the crosswalk — even after seeing me (I have brilliant fuchsia hair, so I’m kinda hard to miss, especially in broad daylight). The twonk’s window was open, so I said (without any profanity), «Slow down.». The p.o.s. law-​breaker says, «F*&k You!» and kept going. I made a note of the Cab Co. Name and Taxi Number and yell out, «I’ll be calling your boss.»
When I go to look up said Cab Co. on the Internet, there was no such Cab Co. showing up in my Beloved Hometown of San Francisco.
So, not one to easily give up (if ever), I came here to Unilocal!
Be forewarned friends, neighbors and (especially) tourists…
Just because you’re in a Crosswalk and just because CA State Law requires vehicles to stop for you if you’re in a crosswalk… Doesn’t mean that they will stop… even after they run you down (Gd Forbid). And, if it’s a Red & White SF Taxi Cab Co. taxi… Expect expletives from the driver.
Good Luck, pedestrians.
And to the driver of Red & White Taxicab Co. of SF Taxi #161…
May you not kill anyone while driving the streets of my City.
Peace.