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Caught On Tape: Uber Driver Mauled By Drunk Passenger
"I have lost so much money on people like him and I'm done dealing with it. They take the food right out of my mouth," exclaims Uber-driver Edward Caban after Benjamin Golden, 32, of Newport Beach repeatedly hit him and pulled his hair, prompting Caban to respond by pepper-spraying the passenger. The distrubing scene, caught on the car's dashboard camera, has led to Golden's arrest (charged with assault) and while Uber has banned him from their service, but as NBC reports, the driver is not satisfied and has quit Uber because he no longer feels safe, "the quality of the passengers has gone down recently."
The anxious driver turns the internal camera around at 2:00, where the passenger can be seen sliding around the back seat and unable to communicate. The driver then decides to end the fare.. and mayhem begins...
"He was grabbing my head and was trying to smash it against the window," Caban told NBC4 in an interview.
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Costa Mesa police responded within minutes to the scene of the fight in the 1800 block of Newport Beach Boulevard.
The customer, 32-year-old Benjamin Golden, of Newport Beach, was still vomiting from the Mace when officers arrived, according to police.
Uber said it has banned the rider from ever using the ride-sharing platform again.
Caban said Uber offered to reimburse him for cleaning the pepper spray from his car. Nonetheless, he said his days as an Uber driver are over.
"I don't feel safe driving for Uber any more," Caban said. "The quality of the passengers has gone down over the last couple of weeks and I know a lot of drivers will agree with me."
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"I don't feel safe driving for Uber any more," Caban said. "The quality of
the passengers has gone down over the last couple of weeks and I know a
lot of drivers will agree with me."
Welcome to the average american shlub, a beer swilling, pot bellied, kardashian obsessed loser, breeding into Idiocracy.
"The quality of
American citizens, especially in CA, has gone down over the last couple of decades and I know a
lot of critical thinkers will agree with me."
The driver sounds gay, lol
This is why we can't have nice things.
1) Bros know only two things: getting drunker than hell, and fucking shit (or people) up.
2) Most yutes in America have become, are becoming, or are in danger of becoming bros.
Meet the average entitled white American male. Of course that doesn't speak for all of you but downvote it regardless plz.
Hah, I'd rather take a few punches to the head than be accused of rape by entitled American females.
http://angiemedia.com/2012/07/05/taxi-cab-driver-falsely-accused-of-sexu...
or just google search it.. plenty of results.
https://www.google.com/search?q=canadian+cab+driver+accused+of+rape&ie=u...
Another win for "gun free zones".
Uber bans concealed carry by drivers.
Am I saying the douche deserved to get shot in the face?
Deserves got nothing to do with it.
A gun isn't a bad idea if you're an uber driver, but in this case I'd guess a taser would have worked miracles. It's more close-combat and it would have non-lethally put the man down for the cops.
32 year old man-child with his hat turned backwards like a dumb-ass.
Nobody likes an angry drunk. Don't be an angry drunk.
Yeah but notice how that helped get the pepper spray into the right place.
Stupid fucktard. Hope he loses his GF, his job, and his apartment and ends up a bum sleeping on the beach with teenage punks using him for a punching bag.
Look at aggregated crime data, not a single 'Gotcha' example. The aggregated crime data tells an interesting story about which ethnic group commits crime.
The passenger tried to say: "Drive me to my parents' basement."
The passenger tried to say: "Drive me to the dwelling I pay for through hard work."
Just google "uber-ed" means raped now.
I'm down-voting it because it's preposterous. A lazy quip from a lazy mind. that's why.
What a feeble mind. So if you get bombed, that means you have become entitled? Bizarre logic. Must be from another dimension. Did you star on one of the Twilight Zone episodes?
Dude Bro? Bro dude? Uncool broseph!!!
*fuck Newport anyways.
Car full of pepper spray/capsaicin.
Good times.
UAV?...........
Uber Assault Vehicle.
Even if had been a Jules and Vincent cleanup situation, I would still vote to acquit the driver of any charge.
So this idiot books a taxi using an account linked to a phone that is traceable.
What a fucking idiot. Even the most basic police could solve this one.
Usual fucktardedness at work.
Darwin his ass.
A large sign that reads "Your Phone Number is on record" might help with decision making.
why specific the quality of 'citizens' when its the quality of non-citizens that has really taken a loose one in the bathtub?
Ha ha my wife and her co workers knows this dude. Big laugh at her office right now. Your liberal arts colledge $ at work
Details, please.
Taco Bell Senior Marketing Manager per the story below.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/camera-captures-assault-of-uber-driver-by-pa...
What's a Bell marketing manager do anyhow? put out signs saying 1$ for mc-mice?
C'mon, think outside the bun!
Are they cheerleaders perhaps? :)
Guy wasn't that drunk. If I had been the Uber driver I would have beat him into a coma with the cutoff baseball bat I keep under the front seat.
Boy that sure would have been funny. Woo hoo.
Uber is an undeniably shitty deal for drivers. The Uber business model is brilliant--from Uber's perspective, that is. Basically you dump all the capital costs, and all the economic and personal-security risk onto the driver, while skimming off a massive chunk of the revenues. The only value Uber provides is (1) a glorified taxi-dispatcher service, and (2) fare collection on behalf of the driver. Otherwise, that's it.
It's fashionable to say how economically wonderful it is that Uber has disintermediated the local taxi monopolies, and their associated regulatory inefficiencies. But local businesses have more incentive to actually care for local taxi drivers and taxi passengers; Uber, meanwhile, is safely ensconced in their Silicon Valley ivory tower, patting themselves on the back for being "economy disrupters", and enjoying how they don't have to give a flying fuck about actual drivers or actual passengers, because fuck them and their retarded 19th century pre-Internet ways of being human.
Baloney.
I take uber all the time, and always converse with the drivers. All explain they like it much more than what they were doing before, and more than a handful are ex Taxi drivers who love the flexibility, surge pricing, etc.
Taxis have been a protected cartel for long enough. I use them occasionally, but specifically not in some cities where they abused that position so dramatically and only bothered to change their soddy ways after Uber forced their way into the market, and after the same cab cartels went into political overdrive with their crony politicians to protect their racket / scheme by having politicians and courts try to put them out of business despite the consumers flocking to them in droves!
Taxis were functionally a legalized form of organized crime. Good riddance to their monopolies.
Otherwise, let consensual contracts work and let the chips fall where they may. I don't need some bought off utility commission or politicians deeming what's right or wrong for consumers, labor or their consensual relationships with their employers. Thanks.
Agreed. Also, and I am not defending this douche bag and he deserves to go to jail and get maced, but the Uber driver handled this poorly. The guy asked him to take him to the Black Knight, a gastropub. The driver apparently didn't know where it was and didn't want to help the guy out by looking it up or plugging it in his phone. It would have come up on the Uber app. The rider then tells him the correct cross streets and still won't take him. The main reason people use Uber is because they are too drunk to drive. A good Uber driver would have dropped him off at the Black Knight, where he was asked to be taken to begin with and there would have been no issue. The Uber driver also had the right to drop him off and not put up with his drunk ass, but before he knew the guy was a violent douche bag asswhipe, why not just drop the guy off where he asked. This was easily avoidable. This is what happens when assholes collide.
In addition, the reason that I pay someone to drive me somewhere is so I don't have to give directions. The reason I hated cabs so fucking much was I couldn't find a driver who knew how to get anywhere.
The cabbies who did know how to get where you wanted to go sure liked to see you coming.
Over-protected cartel. Watch any taxi drive around near LAX and you see a backside so fully populated with permit stickers it looks like the height of the 1970s/80s bumper-sticker craze... only that guy had to pay the state for all of those certs.
Taxis are exactly that, legalized organized crime.
While I agree and most competition is good, I don't care for the gig-economy, 1099 bs where these companies want to own the contractor like an employee yet get to skip the employee hassles and pay.
Most Uber and Lyft drivers who actually bother to do an economic analysis of the costs come to understand that it simply doesn't pencil out as a full time job once you factor in depreciation, maintenance, and fuel costs. I have heard estimates that it basically is a $7-$10/hour job once all the costs are accounted for. And "surge" pricing doesn't really work as great as it looks-- either for passengers or drivers-- for obvious reasons once you think about it. As a passenger, how often are you going to let yourself get "surge-priced" for a hundred-dollar ride? If you find yourself in a situation where you are paying that much for a ride, you are either rich (few potential customers for drivers), or you will be a lot more careful to not put yourself in that position next time.
Uber is tapping into a gigantic wellspring of unemployed people with cars who don't know any better. As more and more drivers get experience doing business with Uber, the word will eventually get out that it might be a nice way to make a little part time money on the side, but that as an actual job, it sucks as Uber skims the lions share right off the top.
Kind of like driving for a taxicab company used to be, right? Watch any movie, from any time period, about any time period, and cab drivers are regarded the same... as people just surviving by providing one of the most simple services imaginable. Hell, there were jokes about taxi cab drivers before there were CARS.
Driving for uber all your life means you didn't earn anything and own nothing. That wasn't the case with thousands of small taxicab businesses. But go on - continue defending uber scam.
Cabbies own(ed) their own, overpriced slice of a politically protected cartel licensed to fleece consumers at above market rates. Absent the fact that this basically what the mafia does to corner their market share -- only protected by bought-off politicians -, it's a legit business.
Uber is working out for the economy the real perceived worth consumers attach to a ride from A to B. Surge time or not.
Try again.
So when truth about Uber leaks and this massive ponzi unravels you promise not to post lies from your uber-sponsored propaganda account?
Uber drivers make no money and you would know it if you would ever drive a car for hire - which you clearly don't.
Rye, I've been on Zero Hedge going way back - years before you, so stick your paid-shill character-assassination-as-argument firmly up your own buttocks, and moreover - stay on point.
I have no opinion about Uber as a stock investment / valuations, etc.. Like most things today, their value is probably bloated into shiiitesville, and investors will lose their shirts. So be it, caveat emptor.
But that's entirely separate from the Ubers and Lyfts of the world solving a real world problem of crony-Taxi-systems throughout the U.S. and the world over.
As to what their drivers make, that's for the drivers and the market to sort out, not some politically connected looters laundering their strong-arm scams (do business with us, or not at all) through local and state governments.
And that's what seems to be underneath your comments - a hatred for consumers and drivers for deciding at market what the cost of getting from point A to B should be. You prefer government-cronies to decide.
No thanks.
the thing is - if you think its a shitty deal. you dont have to drive for them/.
You can try to become a taxi driver, if you have a couple hundred thousand for the medallion, etc.
Oh - and if you don't like Walmart, don't shop there.
And if a comedian offends you, don't go to his show.
Remarkably simple, really.
It's nice to have more options than fewer.
New York City is just about the only place on earth where medallions cost hundreds of thousands. You sound like a typical New Yorker who doesn't have a clue how the rest of the world operates outside the island of Manhattan, or the white parts of Brooklyn.
"In Boston, medallions fetched $700,000 as recently as 2014, and some went for nearly as much in Cambridge"
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/08/09/what-about-taxi-medallions-...
If that's the case in Boston, I am confident it is the case in numerous other places with larger populations.
Anything else you're an expert on, Buck?
Yeah these medallions were city revenue unlike the BILLIONS uber's creepy owners are stealing away to their tax-evaded offshore bank accounts. Paid shills like you never grasp the difference because you are paid from same money your owners steal.
Rye -- Chairman Mao is calling. He needs more Marxist owership-vs-labor argument dupes like you to gather souls for his Enhanced Burning in Hell Fund XVII.
So you applied for a taxi licence in every country on earth?
Impressive!
No, he sounds exactly like paid uber social media shills do.
Brain-dead and clueless.
Or... Maybe he's from a city like Pittsburgh, where Uber and Lyft fought through the political banning of such consumer-focused services by going direct to the consumers, who quickly let the public utility commission's political bosses know the gig was up and in no uncertain terms.
Anyone who cares to know how crony-cabbyism works -- and how bad service gets when government prevents competition, go read the Yelp reviews for Yellow Cab in Pittsburgh. Anyone who needed to rely on a Yellow Cab or any of the other tiny handful of cab operators holding consumers hostage for 50+ years with their crappppy service agrees with those reviews.
I don't care what app gets them to my door on time and efficiently from point A to B. Just as long as the cab cartel is broken and consumers are free to choose, drivers are free to choose, and all operate consensually, that's fine by me.
Excellent point. Why people are so infatuated with this Ponzi scheme to enrich Wall Street bankers and SV megalomaniacs?
I guest heavy propaganda works of desperate population in the midst of economic collapse. Unable to find real jobs people are being manipulated to effectively kill jobs others still hold in this cannibalistic economy.
The truth about Uber and other disruptive innovations can be found at:
https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/the-age-of-disruption/
Uber is a cab company that side-steps the regulatory process and offloads most of the expenses onto their drivers.
Sure, the regulatory process is ridiculous, bloated, prone to corruption, and still results in cab-driving being one of the most dangerous jobs there is. All true. Uber, however, doesn't meaningfully improve on that. Except in terms of profitability for the shareholders, that is.
Retailers market self-serve checkout lanes as being "convenient" for shoppers, when in reality they're outsourcing customer service to...the customers.
As you put it, a collapsing economy cannibalizing itself.
Let the drivers and consumers determine what the market should be for hiring someone to get me from point A to B, not corrupt political cronies or any corporate entity who buys cartel privs from them.
As for the do it yourself nature of grocery stores, gas stations, etc., -- So very luddite of you!! Other than the fact that new tech has always displaced labor with labor saving devices (unless you wish upon us all the return to the hand loom and needle and thread) blame the overhead for doing business with employees imposed upon those busineses by government.
A business exists for one reason: meeting consumer demands. Mandating minimum wages compounded by other govt imposed costs got you the self-check-out lanes, pal. Look in the mirror.
Or go find a cotton mill and burn down its machinery to create some jobs.
This is Newport. The dude looks like a very typical USC alumni asshole and is doubtless doing just fine w family money. In that world it's still okay to hit the help if they don't listen.
Funny how he was going to the Park Newport apartments...I used to live there back in the day. I guess the quality of the residents there has deteriorated as well....lol.
rider was a marketing manager for Taco Bell?
What, no guages bro? How many tats you have?
This guy future is certain, he'll be unemployed if he isnt already.
Get a good Lawyer and SUE THE FUCK OUT OF UBER...Check is in the mail if I was on the jury.
Sue the passenger too; take whatever he's got...even if you just get his hat, that will really ruin his day.
I've got chunks of guys like Benjamin Golden in my stool.
Chunks of their foreskin?
Golden was not getting laid it seems
Caban should have busted a cap in the guys ass.
"Caban should have busted a cap in the guys ass."
Curious; would a background check uncover that you're a irrational pussy who has no place owning a firearm ?
curbjob,
Or would a quick question or two, uncover the fact that you don't believe in one's right to defend themselves and their property? FFS
We need a night of purge. I can't wait for the EMP. I'll be the last one standing in my subdivision, unless I’m not, but that’s OK.
"Or would a quick question or two, uncover the fact that you don't believe in one's right to defend themselves and their property? FFS"
Fire away.
My measured response would have left the douchbag requiring a dental surgeon and me on solid legal ground.
curbjob,
years ago, that would have been my response too, but decades of brutal labor and life have left be with many fucked up discs etc...Therefore, I feel NO obligation to let some asshole smack my head around.
Neither did the Uber driver, hence the pepper spray.
Your measured response will get you shot by someone carrying a weapon.
Big talk dont mean shit when someone has a gun shoved in your mouth.
Ha. Your paranoia is what supports the police state ... a cop would have been justified killing that mentally incapacitated douche, right ?
Yes. If said douche hauled off and attempted the same behavior exhibited in the "taxi", then absolutely. Return that fuckwad to sender.
shoulda shot his ass
Nope. I have a permit to carry and do so everyday.
You can avoid drunk people by not picking people up from bars...
No, you can't. As a driver you don't get to pick and choose your fares.
And, of course, driving drunks around is where most of the Uber business is. It's why there are so many drivers out at night.
Is that really part of Uber's terms of service? That seems hard to believe. The driver owns the vehicle, and it's the drivers safety that's at risk. Putting them on the hook to serve every customer Uber sends them is unbelievably abusive towards drivers.
You wouldn't say that if you picked up a couple of hot drunk skanks.
I thought the great thing about Uber driving is that you CAN pick and choose your customers; it's YOUR car and YOUR ass.
Hmmm, maybe a gun would help..., just sayin.
Dealing drugs is safer and more lucrative than Uber.
If I was an Uber driver, you better believe I'd be packing 100% of the time I was behind the wheel. But I'd also carry pepper spray and a baton. The pepper spray was a good way to go in this particular situation.
Freeze frame the video. Mr. Driver nailed the douche right in the eyes with the very first part of the initial use.
Now comes the car cleaning.
Actually Uber bans their drivers and their passengers from carrying a gun... Gun-free Uber zone.
So yeah, you'd better be carrying because who's going to frisk their passengers? Doubt the driver will.
In all fairness, Newport Beach, CA. is pretty much the epicenter of douchebaggery Bro Dude Mans of the universe, drive at your own risk.
at some point in the future, uber rating will get rolled into your credit score, and you won't get a ride if you're under 500...Experian/Equifax/Trans Union are salivating
I'd have liked to see Uber paying the bill for cleaning that passenger's brains out of the back seat.
No excuse for acting like that.
Kind of metaphor of the US govt and what should happen
Drunk!
I run a Limo service in the Denver area. Lemme tell ya, been there, done that.....
I absolutely would NOT EVER drive for Uber, knowing what I know about this industry. Each ride turns into a wild goose chase, with 2-3 additional stops added on. Drunk, broke losers are always looking to get a 'free' ride in a limo (or in anything). When extra people try to 'ride along' with the 'gang' after some event, I tell 'em it's an additional $50 per person....they immediately hale a $10 pedicab. Cheap bastards out there everywhere.
When I order uber as a group, i expect one fare for the group.
Then there is the fare share system therein for groups.
As for goose chases, what cab does not allow for a goose chase through a McDonalds, etc?
Sounds to me like you are not terribly informed about the model, and just don't like it, or are just being otherwise cranky about them taking your fares when you used to have a government-imposed (crony) supply-limit on competition.
what could possibly go wrong when letting complete strangers into ur car???????????????
ps: he should be shot.
One night, I had a guy get kicked out of a concert. He was overdosing on 2 different types of LSD AND Mushrooms!
It was wonderful babysitting HIM for 2 more hours.
off topic but many of you may also be interested in reviewing the "room for debate" essays at the NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/11/02/when-a-generation-become...
Guess what view of free speech the president of Smith College and a recent Brown University graduate have?
Free speech is absolutely under assault all over, and I think that, at least imo, the way these two employ language to make their desire to stifle expression noble is worth study.
It's always for the children. The precious, susceptible to cognitive programming children.
___
edit: for my auto junking shadow:
https://platosguns.com/2015/11/02/violence-in-the-name-of-the-messiah-no...
Jag skulle verkligen uppskatta om du vill suga en påse innehållande penisar.
"Social Libertarian NYC 14 minutes ago
This is absolutely terrifying, and perhaps a harbinger. Orwell's "1984" was a warning about statism - the reification of human values into the state and the coercion and violence the state must rely on.
The author works at a college that does not admit men, but whose professors and students pontificate unceasingly about gender equality. Naturally, there is always justification for hypocrisy, always justification for burning a village in order to save it.
One wonders what kind of books the author would ban. Which Tea Party members, the statist left's Emmanuel Goldtsein, she would be willing to send to political reeducation camps - or worse, for not having the same worldview as she.
One must read between the lines here, of course. The author doesn't want to be direct because the repercussions are then too ominous. "Assessing the challenges of discourse" is Newspeak for 'determining which groups have a right to not be offended.'
As for marginalized groups - try being someone who believes in the fundamental rights we are guaranteed under the Constitution, or someone who believes that the answer to speech you don't like isn't censorship backed by state coercion - but more speech."
Someday the next generation will all be wearing a certain color of shirt to identify their "trigger words" and "safe spaces": browshirt, greenshirt, redshirt blueshirt.
There's nothing better than teasing the intolerant with their bogeymen (& bogeywomen, to be fair!).
It's all bullshirt to me.
Heh, heh, now you are dealing with the American public. Shocking, isn't it?
Don't pick up drunks after dark. In fact, you might just head home as soon as the sun is down. I know I do.
Hey! Maybe its a concerted effort by the regulated taxi industry to discredit Uber by sending thugs on Uber calls!
The doctrine is 1) get drunk, 2) badger/assault the driver, 3) piss on the seats.
If I were an owner of taxi cab company . I may have an army of these douchebags sign up for Uber rides. Scare the shit out of Uber drivers. Competition and problem solved. But that's just me.
Don't put it past them. They're already notorious for calling fares and cancelling them repeatedly.
Anyrthing to hold onto their monopoly.
Go long driverless cars? Doors lock and head straight to the nearest police station. Thank you for riding uber, come again.
Uber knows who you are and has your credit card information. You also get rated as a passenger like you rate the driver. Cab drivers have the same problem and anyone else who drives people for a living. I use Uber all of the time and it's great.
'Molle' is the latest wonder drug, now. It turns their brain to mush. Along with all the dopers here in Denver, it's just pure insanity driving anywhere, anytime.
Molly (TYGA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPFB0rM1Xxk
Molly is the *latest* wonderdrug now? Man you needa get outta the basement a lil.
Sorry, perhaps I'm not as up-to-date on the drug scene as you are. Would you care to elaborate?
Molly is Mdma. ...ecstasy....hardly a new drug...
I thought 'Extasy' was MDMA.....so that would make MOLLE 'newer', no? Supposedly, Molle is considered the more purer form of X, with fewer contaminants.
http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/answered-questions/whats-difference-betwe...
In any case, these strangers you pick up at night are drunk, high, trippin, puttin' it in their drink, Purple Drankin', dabbin, snortin', ....................
So if the kids call marajuana weed today, does that make it a new drug, Copernicus?
It's the same thing we were doing legally in Dallas back in 1984.
It doesnt turn to brain to mush.
You should refrain from commenting on something you know nothing about and believing something you read on the internet.
These damn kids and their reefers - it's turning them into cereal killers!
Yes. They killed Cap'N Crunch.
My uncle used to tell me the craziest stories about being able to buy it at Dallas clubs, like right at the bar. mid-80s, yes.
I thought 'Extasy' was MDMA.....so that would make MOLLE 'newer', no?
Not actually . . . where I used to live in Texas they were calling ecstasy (MMDA) "mollys" back in the early 1990's. And as far as being "purer" that is total BS. The purest street chemists can make MMDA is around 85-90% and that has been available for a couple of decades now.
Molly has been around since about 1986.
shulgin invented 'molly'. he used it in therapy. pihkal. very interesting book.
MDMA has been around for 100 years. Shulgin did not invent molly/mdma/mda(there was a time in the 90s when "molly" exclusively meant MDA, not MDMA - MDA is speedier and shorter-lived, it too was an "elite" club drug in the early 80s, and still obscure enough that it was also legal). Shulgin's inventions were the 2C family and the later stuff, iirc the foxy/moxy stuff -5 meo-dalt? And another similar.
It's been a while, but I do remember that much. Did you read Pihkal, or just the wiki? lol
Hmm, picking up random people at 2am. What could go wrong?!
A roided up drunk Jew.
Who now has no job.
What job did he have?
Taco Bell Senior Marketing Manager?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/camera-captures-assault-of-uber-driver-by-pa...
hahaha..Easy livin' and I've been forgiven
Since you've taken your place in my heart.
Wasp spray would have been a better lesson for the drunken fool.
The ideal Uber vehicle: a windowless van with a solid partition between the "contents" in the back and driver with Go Pro cam mounted in corner. Contents sit along solid surface bench seats with seat belts which driver can release then "stir" if shit gets out of hand. Power wash after a good night.
Sounds like good old Union tactics,,, but then I'm pretty cynical.
I was waiting, "You're on Candid Camera."
UBER DRIVER GOT WHAT HE DESERVED
UBER DRIVER GOT WHAT HE DESERVED
Since it's all in caps - it is both profound and accurate.
you forgot double posted
Since it's all in caps - it is both profound and accurate.
Either that or the person is hard of hearing and shouts all the time ;-)
Simple solution,,,no address, no ride. Driver should have the address before the ride is even hooked up. Idiots!
Uber passenger's info is known by Uber. Easy to press assault charges.
Funny to watch the war on Uber by the lefty union dolts.
Passengers get rated too - not good for the rummy in the back.
Oh yes...Uber is so fucking awesome, cool, and innovative!
Yeah right....
It's a fucking lame ass national taxi company that loses money with a 60 Billion dollar "valuation" that derives most of its value from skirting existing regulation. Its an entire company based on arbitrage.
It's so pathetic that companies such as Uber pass for "innovation" these days.
Seriously, bra...go catch your next Uber!
He will just sign up with a new uber account.
after he legally changes his name - dumb ass
+1 for pepper spray!
Coulda been worse.
Man charged with breaking a trooper’s fist with his face
http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/robert-leone/
Benjamin seems pretty rational until he snapped. He just needed an attitude adjustment and got one.
another libitard wet fart dream... "let's give rides to people we don't know in our own cars, everyone using the service also lives in our wonderful utopian society and is so friendly and shit I don't know why we even charge for this sort of service to the people"
'till some maniac kills your ass...
how is this a libtard...what?
what in the fuck are you on about, man?
If someone has a car, wants to make a few bucks, etc. why is that "libtard?"
The people register and are background checked. perfect, no, but this might be news for you - when you get into a subway at 1 in the morning - nobody background checked the other people on there with you.
Google "park newport, newport beach" It's an apartment complex. How hard is that? How many times did the guy say park newport, park newport?? The driver could have handled it differently and not been such a condescending, jerk. Why didn't he ask, is that the name of the place you live? The drunk would have slurred...yes. The whole thing could have been avoided. Even drunks know when theyre being treated like crap. The drunk shouldn't have slapped the driver but the driver could have treated the drunk with a little more dignity and respect and compassion. The drunk wasn't really a jerk until he was getting kicked out. At first I thought it was just the drunk being a douche but I watched it again and saw it differently. The drunk just wanted to get home and sleep it off and next thing he knows he's out in the middle of who knows where and has to start again. He even called the driver, sir at one point. Not being beligerent or disrespectful at all. Both are guilty, one of assault, one of lacking compassion. The driver created this situation by his actions. IMHO
If I let someone in my car and i feel like my property or safety is at risk, I would kick them out too.
Would you like someone gouging your leather seats with a knife or puking on your carpets?
You sound like an Uber using asshole.
If that was directed at me, I've never used Uber ever. An "uber using asshole"? Wow, that's what I get for expressing my point of view? Seriously? Didn't even know what it was until a few months ago. Personally, I don't like the business model nor do I think the whole thing is a good idea.
An "uber using asshole"? Wow, that's what I get for expressing my point of view?
Unfortunately on ZH about 10% of the commenters are real jerks and respond to things they don't like with personal attacks. Just ignore him (them) . . . . just like the trolls that frequent the site. FWIW I think the guy was way out of line for that comment.
Real taxi drivers the world over will not take drunk passengers. For reason of the risk of vomit causing great expense and typically putting the cab out of action for at least a whole shift.
The real taxi drivers are able to do this because they do not accept payment until after the passenger has been accepted (usually but not always after the ride). Uber drivers need to learn - if the passengers is even the slightest bit intoxicated then they can't enter the car.
Real taxi drivers the world over will not take drunk passengers. . . . . if the passengers is even the slightest bit intoxicated then they can't enter the car.
So what are all the public service advertisements about during the holiday season telling people to take a cab if they've been drinking? And if cab drivers don't accept people that have been drinking what are people supposed to do when they go out and drink? Walk home?
Welcome to the world of being a cab driver.
You thought it would be easy?.....Safe??
No one in their right mind drives a cab.
This isn't a cab driver, it's an Uber driver.
The only difference between a cab driver and an uber driver is lawyers.
It's a cab.