From MSNBC.COM:

New York couple hail cab for 2,400 mile trip

Cabbie to turn off meter for $3,000 flat fee, plus expenses, for ride to Ariz.

NEW YORK - Betty and Bob Matas have retired and are moving to Arizona, but like many New Yorkers they don’t drive, and they don’t want their cats to travel all that way in an airliner cargo hold.

Their solution: “Hey, cabbie.”

They met taxi driver Douglas Guldeniz when they hailed his cab after a shopping trip several weeks ago.

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