Now he’s the one getting the kiss-off.
A cabby who claimed he had a “no-kissing policy” in his yellow taxi was hit with $15,000 in fines for ordering two female passengers to stop smooching — and then shouting vulgar epithets at them when they got out.
TV producer Christina Spitzer and her actress girlfriend, Kassie Thornton, said they barely exchanged a peck in the back seat early into their ride when hack Mohammed Dahbi became enraged.
“Keep that for the bedroom or get out of the cab,” Dahbi shouted during the trip from Columbus Circle to Brooklyn’s Sunset Park.
Unnerved, the couple said they got out of the cab in Chelsea, confronted Dahbi about his comment, then got into a fight about paying the fare.
That’s when he called them “bitches,” “c- -ts” and “whores,” according to official documents.
At a hearing last month, Dahbi told an unsympathetic administrative-law judge that Spitzer and Thornton were doing more than just G-rated canoodling.
He said they were kissing “heavily” and “touching all over each other” — including “on the chest and the breast.”
But Spitzer testified that she had just had oral surgery and was tentative about even kissing her girlfriend that day. They also had a dog and a pet carrier stuffed into the back seat with them during the ride on Sept. 18, 2011.
The couple, who have now set a June wedding date, flew from California to testify at the administrative trial in the city — which for unknown reasons took more than three years to schedule.
“Most people would just stop and not consume their lives with this anymore. But for us, it affected our entire relationship,” Thornton told The Post.
“We had just started dating, and we wanted to follow through. If everyone backed out of doing what was right, nothing would change.”
Each woman was awarded $5,000 for emotional distress, in addition to a $5,000 fine Dahbi was ordered to pay the city.
Dahbi was found guilty of denying them a “public accommodation due to their sexual orientation.”
His lawyer, Ali Najmi, told The Post that his client has also told heterosexual couples in his cab to knock it off when their makeout sessions become too much of a distraction.
He noted that Dahbi has been volunteering at a food pantry that serves gay, low-income clients, and that he plans to appeal the hearing officer’s ruling.
“My client never once mentioned anything about their sexuality and never threw them out of the taxi,” Najmi said.
“In fact, the complaint doesn’t even allege that he said anything about their sexuality, and the two women testified that they are the ones who decided to exit the taxi.”
The city’s Human Rights Commission, which brought the case, has the final say on the size of the fine.
But since it had recommended an even higher figure, it’s not likely to agree to less than the judge recommended.
A spokeswoman for the agency did not respond to questions about the delay in the case.