Ok I did have a little chuckle while reading this. I'm in JFK Airport quite a lot and there is constantly loudspeaker announcements about not taking a ride from people who are unauthorized because you will get ripped off etc. They always direct you to the taxi rank outside of the terminal. These poor french tourists got the ride of their life and I feel bad for them, I can only imagine what their opinion of New York is right now. They two culprits were arrested and hopefully won't be taking anymore unsuspecting tourists for a ride again! 
Read the article here.
I know, lets just hope they don't decide to take a yellow cab in NYC now, they'll experience ..."zoom zoom zoom" all over again. The french don't have a high opinion of us to begin with, I can only imagine how those tourists feel now. Although I think the cops did a pretty good job, so they may just have saved the day.

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"It went very, very fast. We're going zoom, zoom, zoom," she said, zigzagging her hand through the air.
Bet this is their last trip to the US or to NY atleast.