Black eye while paying cab fare.

A 32-year-old Mount Laurel man wound up with a swollen fight eye and cuts on his fore-head after his girlfriend left him to pay a cab fare early Saturday at the Courtyard Hotel in Newport, according to the Jersey City police reports.

The victim was too intoxicated to help police, reports said. But according to the girlfriend, she had left the cab to go into the hotel lobby about 1:50 am when she heard her boyfriend shriek, reports said.

When she turned around, she saw the cab driving away with her boyfriend dangling from the door, reports said.

The injured man, who was holding an ice pack over his swollen right eye by the time cops arrived to the hotel, fell from the cab, reports said.

But cops ? who could not locate the cabby ? believe the man?s injuries were caused by a punch in the face, not from his tumble from the taxi, reports said.

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