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Caught On Tape: Angry Mexican Crowd Attacks Uber Drivers
While everyone knows "you don't mess with Texas," it appears technologists worldwide just learned another truism, "you don't disrupt in Mexico." As the following disturbing clip shows, as WFLA reports, an angry crowd attacked Uber drivers and their vehicles with clubs and stones Tuesday outside the Mexico City airport.
Amateur video captured the incident, showing people smashing car windows and throwing eggs and flour at vehicles. One man destroyed a moving car’s rear window with a large rock.
Uber said between 10 and 12 cars were damaged in the attack. There were no reports of serious injuries. Mexico City became the first city in Latin America to make official regulations for smartphone-based taxi services earlier this month. The Organized Taxi Drivers of Mexico, a union campaigning against Uber, denied any involvement in Tuesday’s attack.
Perhaps some disruption is too much disruption...
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Now could we focus some of this energy on banksters?
Why don't they just run the little $9!($ over?
some of those mexicans might tear a rotator cuff throwing those eggs. Pro tip, you don't need to bring the heater to break an egg on a car, a simple lob will work...
I think the Horse and Buggy Drivers Union should smash the cabs or the other drivers to protest the use of advanced technologies like horseless carriages.
Researcher says can hack GM's OnStar app, open vehicle, start engine
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/30/us-gm-hacking-idUSKCN0Q42FI201...
A researcher is advising drivers to halt the use of a mobile app for General Motors Co's (GM.N) OnStar vehicle communications system, saying hackers can exploit a security flaw in the product to remotely unlock cars and start engines.
"White-hat" hacker Samy Kamkar posted a video on Thursday saying he had figured out a way to "locate, unlock and remote-start" vehicles by intercepting communications between the OnStar RemoteLink mobile app and the OnStar service.
Kamkar said he plans to provide technical details on the hack next week in Las Vegas at the Def Con conference, where tens of thousands of hacking aficionados will gather to learn about new cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Kamkar released the video a week after Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCAU.N)(FCHA.MI) recalled some 1.4 million vehicles after hacking experts demonstrated a more serious vulnerability in the Jeep Cherokee. That bug allowed them to gain remote control of a Jeep traveling at 70 miles per hour on a public highway.
GM said its engineers had reviewed Kamkar's research. "A fix has already been implemented," the company said in a statement.
Kamkar said he discussed the fix with representatives from GM, but their efforts failed to thwart the attack method he uncovered, which uses a device he built and dubbed 'OwnStar.'"
"They have not yet fixed the bug that 'OwnStar' is exploiting," he told Reuters.
Representatives with GM did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the status of the bug or fix.
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Long Ford.
Disrupters whining about being disrupted?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdofmoYcJNE
Bringing the kids to get in on the action was a nice touch.
Speaking of kids in Mexico..and the implications for economic growth in the US...
http://econimica.blogspot.com/2015/07/headwaters-of-us-population-growth.html
vote for Pedro. he will make all your dreams come true.
Freedom of Choice is really being fased out everywhere in the world....
General Motors China Sales Up 4.4 Percent To 1.7 Million Units During First Half Of 2015 (26-July)
China auto sales slump hits industry fortunes, forces price cuts (29-Jul)
They should've used the Nuclear Option: Hordes of swarming Mariachi Bands surrounding the Uber cars, playing at full volume.
They need to do the 3 AMIGO's thrust
So I guess they do need those stinking badges afterall.
At least to drive taxis...
I don't get this Uber thing. Why would I want to wait 2-5 minutes for a nice car and a friendly driver while saving money when I could wait for 20 minutes and get a piece of shit 20-year-old taxi cab that smells like vomit and urine with some ahole driver who doesn't speak english and wants to loudly talk on the phone to his buddy Habib while taking the LONG way to my destination?
You're describing Congress, right?
It looks to me like a bunch of people that don't like nice cars. I'm guessing they are attacking fellow citizens for what? Because they have an app that helps facilitate transportation and trade and they had enough money to do it and take only from people willing to pay more?
do not question the "whys and wherefores" of the 3rd world...simply stand in slack-jawed amazement at the behavioral demographic future of amerika
I don't live in nyc but have been there enough that I've taken dozens of cab rides.
Got a native english speaker maybe a handful of times, got a native born American exactly once.
What's the deal - Haitians and Arabs are doing jobs americans won't do?
Why is it NYC has almost no native new yorkers driving cabs [at least in manhattan, cant speak to brooklyn or queens but would guess - same hack license, so its the same?]
Had an English speaking taxi driver in Chicago. He took different routes than the other drivers and was able to get me to my destination much quicker. He got a MUCH bigger tip.
Low IQ immigration + carteldom + gubbamin regulation + ....
What do you expect when you let a bunch of basic laborers (construction, driving, services...) immigrate in swaths?
They tuk ur jerbsf
Last time I flew to NYC the [Haitian] cab driver stopped the can half way to manhattan and warned me if I didn't give him a $10 tip he would kill me.
Must have known your zh alias.
Send me his cabby license#
I've met some quite clever and skillful people who, at one time or another, were livery drivers. Then there was this guy I remember making a pure cod of some uppity tossers on Mastermind.
Not sure about you but I am not worried about a non english speaking laborer taking my job, nor is the airline pilot or Dr and dentist I visit for checkups.
I suspect if a non english speaking laborer can take your job, your job was not very diffecult to begin with, nor were you likely very effective and likely being paid toooooo much.
Dear pretentious faggot,
When being a pretentious faggot, one must ensure his spelling is correct. Alas *back of hand to forehead*, I suspect this might be too difficult for you.
We shall have NO freedom of choice!
Yeah, exactly. How is smashing Uber vehicles any different than this nation's foreign policy? Or domestic policy? "You shall have NO freedom of choice!"
You have not seen anything yet... read the Lord's warnings about what is coming to America shortly.... http://revelation12.ca
Obama will not be leaving the White House.....
The Lord said nothing about "America". Junked. -1
Never go full retard.
You people are the first to go directly after the EMP.
LOL
They are the type to head towards the bright light...
Didn't read it. It goes on for pages. If you can't get your point across in one or two sentences, then your point is worthless.
Some ideas are complex, requiring reasonable length for clarity and development. Religious fundamentalism isn't hard to understand in principle, though its study as an exercise in mass manipulation is the focus of whole institutions.
Johnny Standley: "It's In The Book" (YouTube)
Is that you Michael Snyder?
http://whatdoesthebiblesayabout.com/archives/what-do-we-believe-our-stat...
We believe that a final judgment will take place for all those who have rejected Christ. They will be judged for their sin and cast into the lake of fire.
This from the creationist retard who contributes those alarmist 'THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS CRASHING TOMORROW' lists Tyler apparently loves so much
"The Organized Taxi Drivers of Mexico, a union campaigning against Uber, denied any involvement in Tuesday’s attack".
Yeah right, because people just run out and attack a low cost alternative for no reason.
When you can't compete due to lack of adaptabliity just burn down your competition and/or "ban" them through the violence of government! And all this coming from Mexico! Why I never!
The future of all millenialtards.
No, they're too busy staring at video games at age 30.
"Get Paid To Play"
Remember that trade-school slogan? The tarding began around that time.
The overwhelming societal emphasis on games, especially at the adult level, is very telling of how fucking dumb people are letting themselves rot.
Every time I turn on the teevee to watch South Park on wednesday nights, if I can catch it, there's "Adam and Eve" commercials in every single break. Words can't describe how foul that shit is. Fifty or sixty years ago, there would be have been a mob with pitchforks.
Tell me again, was this in Mexico or the USA?
I thought lefties and unions were for the middle class and prosperity and especially progress? Isn't that why they call themselves, "Progressives"?
There are no lefties in the USA, and this will never happen here. By the time the American Xanax user gets a clue there won't be anything like a functioning system, let alone one with on-demand taxis, pizza, and blowjobs.
Good. I hope Ubber put's those violent tyrants out of business.
Someones EBT card bounce?
undocumented dumbocrats.
I've been driving Uber as a second job, and it's saved me from complete financial collapse. Thank you Uber!
Anyone who needs to work a second job to live well lives in a 3rd world country. I don't know of anyone here who works 2 jobs and many job contracts say its illegal to work another job.
Meanwhile we also don't have people losing their homes or living off CC's and our REAL unemployment rate is about 6 percent.
Oh I'm sorry, Dutchbitch, I guess I should just go on government support and the socialized state instead of being responsible.
Try living in Hawaii, before you knock people working 2+ jobs.
PS Fuck you
I'll second that!
We have high wages here.
If you work in aviation or transportation here you sign contract that says'' working another job is cause for dismissal''
BTW, shithead, I have never been on unemployment .
I escaped the USA in 1989 and since have NEVER had to work 2 jobs because we have higher wages here
I tripled my income the day I left the USA.. and actually LESSS taxes.
The more you blather on about how great hookerland is, the more glad I am I don't live there. You could pay me one million euros a year and I still wouldn't live there.
Seriously. Not joking. I despise it that much.
Don'tcha just love it when a pampered prick from one or another of europe's socialist utopia comes on here to tell us how great it is in their land of skittle-shitting unicorns?
That said, this "dutch boy" is more likely typing from his momma's tenement in west philly.
Oh, and get your finger outta that dyke, boy! She has a girlfriend and numerous std's!
Please never come back, and I hope you renounced your citizenship.
And your take on dutch taxes being lower is complete and total bullshit. Highest tax bracket in the Netherlands is 52%, which is much higher than the top rate in the US.
Yeah not sure you are helping your argument by pointing out that their rich pay more tax than our rich. Swing and a miss we'll call it.
But it's not like the people in them brackets pay tax anyway, moving on.
yeah yeah, and you live a rich relaxing life with your beautiful wife, Morgan Fairchild...
wait untill eu turns netherland into dutchistan. the young population will have to work on 3 jobs for less to compete with the colorful 3rd world dump
Let's assume everything you say is true. I expect you're leaving out relevant details, but for now, let's say everything is true.
You are incredibly insensitive to people who have been less fortunate or less able (or willing) to find ways to improve their situation.
I'm about as hard on people as anyone here. But I also understand that some humans actually try their best, but are screwed by bad luck, bad people, bad situations they can't easily escape and other factors beyond their ability. And I plan to never forget that.
Eurotrash are always bragging about their fucked up countries.
Working 2 jobs means you can't give full attention to your main job and its also means you have an unbalanced life which is very unhealthy meaning you will be paying more to go see doctors etc.
You guys really don't have a clue,
Again, I have NEVER been on unemployment EVER.
- Maybe you went to kollege and you can't get a job of your choice and need to take several lower paying part-time jobs and gigs to make ends meet.
- Maybe you are a high skool grad, barely, and stuck at the $15/hr level... forever.
- Maybe you used to be full-time somewhere but got cut to part-time because of Obiecare bullshit and now you need two jobs or you're out on the streets.
Plenty of people work lots of jobs to make it to the next day in America. Not everyone is blessed with a single well-paying job that pays enough so you don't really have to worry about too much shit.
Your entire country has also been living off of the defense the US supplied to the entire world.
Come out to my farm... I'm accepting applications for sharecroppers.
The deal is, you eat and live, I get fat. (Or fatter.)
Can I cut a few pounds of bacon off you once you are fat enough to have well marbles bacon?
Hugh, its not your fault. You are a victim of the Utopian Statists (i.e., Demoncrats) and/or the Crony Capitalists (Repubicans). Rise up! Take America back!
The joke here is you walk out the front doors of the terminal, turn left, and there's a subway station right there.
Unions: the people who brought you the 40-hour work-week (and a stone upside the head).
Can you imagine the uproar if a 'Mexican' Uber infiltrated the US and put medallion taxi's at risk ?
Cowards. Go somewhere, mano a mano, and try that.
Uber uber alles!
Mexico needs club and stone control. Like, right now.
Pay back is hell! Mexicans took U.S. jobs. Now U.S. company is taking Mexican jobs.
Mexico is such a tolerant state.
I guess we'll be getting more Spanish speaking Uber drivers soon.
Jeb Bush loves Mexico.
Some observations on this article. It is important to note that the taxi protest in Mexico City occurred outside the main international airport. Many airports around the world and not just in Mexico City are controlled by what is known at the airport taxi mafia. So what, a big surprise, the mafia was angry that competition was undercutting their price rigging!
Comforting thought half these amigos will be heading to the border soon to a warm welcome in one of Barry's remodeled resorts or one of Guvnor Brown's Safe Zones.
Translation;
We're free, and you can't tell us we're not free- 'cos if you do, we'll get real busy maimin', killin and destroyin' private property to prove to you just how free we are.
Mexicans are close to sub-human. They have nothing to lose, and so are best avoided.
I was driving around Mexico very recent and was very surprised to see that most people had shoes and actually were wearing clothes!
I guess Trump was right. They are sending all the bad ones to the US.
My typical experience with Yellow Cab in Miami, Florida:
Me: please I need a taxi
Yellow Cab (yc): why are you bothering me?
Me: I'm sorry I respectfully request a taxi.
YC: Where do you want to go?
Me: Miami International Airport
YC: ok
Me: when will the taxi arrive
YC: Soon
Me: That's pretty open ended
YC: we can't guarantee a pick up time
Me: But, but ...
YC: hangs up
So why would you want to use Uber?
Miami, NY; same ignorant A-holes.
I have caught Uber before and it is a great service but I have my friends call it for me because the bastards tried to get all of the contacts off of my phone when I went to register...... phuck that!
On a side note there have been quite a few stories as of late that the medical marijuana distributers in Mexico have been being attacked. Not surprising Mexico is all but a failed cartel state, right in our own backyard too. On the bright side, at least we are doing something about IS the magic dragon.
I was driving thru Mexico earlier this month, it was one place where I could hit 100 mph without worrying about cops and tickets!
Meanwhile, FUCK LA RAZA.
The third world, already in a US neighborhood near you.
It's just Mafia by the Mob. Pun intended.
You'd almost think that "Uber" translated to "Gringo Cab Inc" the way they are treating those Uber cabs.
What a shock to the globalization crowd! People would never get away with that in America...
Probably not. But that isn't America, and the drivers are lucky to get away with their lives. A 'flip-flop mob' (third-world local street riot) is nothing you want to find yourself the target of. Amazingly horrible things frequently happen to such hapless folk...and it seems like every third person is walking around with a 5-gallon plastic container of gasoline.
You ever see the police at one of these things? They'll crack heads at protests at official events and such, but even they don't get in between angry locals and their victims...
Has it occurred to people that folks in these countries might NOT be happy with many of our wonderful capitalist ideas? That perhaps some of them might be feeling a little raw about the whole thing?
Best tread carefully, disruptors. What you see as progress often involves the deliberate destruction of a weight-bearing beam in an economy's structure. Sure, it's bold, it's risk-taking...it's also fucking stupid unless you have some plan for cleaning up the mess. People will be pissed off at you. People with containers of gasoline. When you attack a man's means of supporting his family with little thought to how you are fucking up his whole world, you find out how nasty things can get.
Here in the US you'd get sued. In a lot of other places you could be necklaced by a jeering mob while half of them film it on their cell phones.
Message to Uber drivers:
Carry a few guns.
Shoot to kill.
For passenger protection and security, of course.
PS: This is the "union attitude" for all the world to see.
according to krugman, there was limited glass breakage, so there's not expected to be a big bump of Mexico's gdp.