Taxi-driver attacked
PA Auckland A taxi-driver, Nyna Ratu, said she thought, only of her four children when ‘ a passenger menaced her with a knife and an iron bar in her cab yesterday. “They say things flash before you when you think you are going to die,” said Mrs Ratu, aged 33, who was shaken but unhurt.
“All I could picture was my kids ... never seeing them again.” Mrs Ratu said she picked up the man in central Auckland at 5 a.m. and took him to what he claimed was - his workplace in Mangere. “He was well dressed, well groomed, polite and talkative. I don’t think any driver would be wary of him.”
As she stopped, however, the passenger “turned nasty,”
She leaned on the horn with one hand and reached for the radiotelephone, but the man drew a short-bladed knife and raised it Mrs Ratu said she grabbed his knife arm, rolled out the door and ran to the nearest building.
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