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I've only rode in a taxi once in my life, but that thought had never occurred to me to be a "thing" about taxis, lol

I would be more worried to be in a crash, the way they drive!

hah I do! But car service freaks me out even more than taxis....

Yes! Only when I take them alone. For some reason taxicab drivers love to talk to me and hit on me. It's usually something like, "How come a pretty girl like you is taking a cab alone?" "Where is your boyfriend/husband?" "If I was your boyfriend/husband I would be picking you up instead of having you in a cab."

Yeah, I don't take cabs much anymore for this reason.

Yes! Only on our honeymoon though. I booked a car and didn't realize how far it would be from the airport to our hotel. He took weird residential roads instead of the main roads and at one point, me and DH looked at each other a little worried! Turned out our hotel occupied a whole mountain so all was well, but I was totally scared for a second.

YES! On our honeymoon a "taxi cab driver" (I think it was a transient) @ the San Juan Airport tried to get me to take a cab. I told him I didn't need a cab. He was trying to corral me like cattle towards his car. Everything there was open air, no doors in or out of the air port or hotel so I bolted back into the hotel area by my husband. He followed till he saw my husband.

The rest of our trip I was freaking out every time we had to take a cab.

Not in the united states, but I worry when traveling in the bahamas, mexico or peru.

In Peru they sell "Taxi" stickers at the side of the road. Anyone can buy one and slap it on their car.

I used to take a town car home from work at least once a week when i used to work late - and sometimes it was a concern because I'd often fall asleep, so sometimes I would text DH with the car company/car number before i fell asleep (I work over an hour drive from home) and that made me feel better. There was a scary incidence once when i woke up and we were in a really sketchy industrial area but turned out he was lost - still scary!

Bee did almost get kidnapped by a taxicab driver in Korea!

I'd be scared in a foreign country... I've seen reenactments of those on the Travel or History Channel...

But in the US? I think cabbies are usually legit. Car service is more creepy... Well, in NYC. It's just not as regulated... So anyone with a black town car can look like they are legit, but uh... no.

My DH found a super-friendly driver who took him to work once and he ended up just always calling him for rides. We always use him when we visit NYC. He even helped us move apts once. He has a huge Tahoe so it's family friendly when we're with the kids. Maybe find a nice driver and stick with him/her every time so you don't worry about different people...

Not in the US, but I have that fear abroad.

Like pp's, not here in the US but definitely out of the country.

Nah! I worry about my sister getting kidnapped sometimes, but only because she got so drunk once she crawled into the back of a cop car thinking it was a cab when she was travelling, the cops drove her to her hotel and her friends have never let her live it down!

Not in the US, but in Ecuador "express kidnappings" by taxis were relatively common, where they would pick you up, and then drive you to an ATM, force you at gunpoint to withdraw all your money, and then leave you in some random neighborhood after they stole all your money. Never happened to me, but it did happen to some people I knew. I tried to only take legit cabs (they have a license in the window), and would memorize/write down the ## in case anything did happen.