11-Year-Old Arkansas Girl Hails Cab ... to Florida

[steve2470]

http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/11-year-arkansas-girl-hails-cab-florida-27554497

BRYANT, Ark. — Dec 12, 2014, 2:39 PM ET
Associated Press

An 11-year-old Arkansas girl paid a cabbie $1,300 to take her to meet a boy in Florida, but authorities caught up with the runaway in Georgia, and found her safe, after her parents reported her missing.

Bryant police used cellphone records to determine the girl hailed the cab in Little Rock Dec. 5 after talking to a 16-year-old Jacksonville, Florida, boy she met two years ago, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Friday ( http://bit.ly/12VJ4Qv ).

"According to the information that I have, she was in a sweatsuit with a lot of makeup on and she looked like she was 17 or 18 years old," said Ellis Houston, a managing partner with Greater Little Rock Transportation Services, which operates the local Yellow Cab service.

The driver was not charged and is not facing disciplinary action, Houston said.

[avebury]

1. It is amazing that the cabbie didn't think

that there was something wrong from the beginning.

[PoliticAverse]

2. I guess he had 1,300 reasons not to. n/t

[avebury]

3. He forgot an important concept:

If it looks or sounds too good to be true - it is probably not a good idea.

[PoliticAverse]

4. Did he get to keep the money? n/t

[avebury]

6. He ended up giving it back to the

grandmother who the girl had stolen it from.

[B Calm]

5. Back when I was 18 and in the Navy, I picked up two boys hitchhiking in Kentucky. They were

running away from home and the next morning they were calling their parents from sunny Jacksonville Beach Florida. Hell I was just a stupid kid myself.

[Rhinodawg]

7. How does an 11 year old get $ 1300.00 ?

must be nice.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

8. nice bit of thievery... n/t