A University student reported he was robbed at gunpoint by a taxi driver after the driver tried to give him a small bag full of a white powdery substance early Friday morning, according to Athens-Clarke County Police.

“It was pretty scary,” Brian Behr, a senior from Lexington, Ky., told The Red & Black Sunday. “Looking back, I guess it could have been worse, but it’s pretty weird.”

Behr said he had never seen the driver before and hadn’t taken notice of the driver’s company.

According to the police report, Behr told police he got in a taxi downtown around 2 a.m. Instead of taking Behr home, the driver took him to an abandoned parking lot off Winterville Road.

Behr said the cab driver told him he had “some stuff” Behr wanted and placed the bag in his lap.

Behr told The Red & Black he was very confused when the driver tried to give him the bag.

“[The driver] said, ‘That was the deal. That’s why I picked you up,’ and I was like, ‘Well, I thought the deal was you’d drive me home,’” Behr said.

According to the report, when Behr told the driver he didn’t want the “stuff,” the driver punched him in the face, dragged him out of the car and hit him several times.

Behr said the driver then pulled a small black handgun and took $70 from Behr’s wallet. When the driver left in the taxi, Behr called a friend to pick him up.

He called the police at 11:25 a.m. and told police he hadn’t called earlier “because he was too drunk.”

Behr told The Red & Black he didn’t go to the hospital.

“My face is cut up a little bit, other than that I’m all right,” he said.