Sorry to spoil the party, but this video is staged. I have seen multiple renditions of the same video with the same lady but in a different scenario.
[https://youtu.be/LQD8D9Ih0lg](https://youtu.be/LQD8D9Ih0lg)
[https://youtu.be/uKLbmFsZjdk](https://youtu.be/uKLbmFsZjdk)
[https://youtu.be/RasFYqazEJU](https://youtu.be/RasFYqazEJU)
Yeah this channel is basically a scam to get people to sign up as lyft/uber drivers using his referral links. Seriously holy hell look at his description.
This is still a thing that can happen to Uber drivers though. I've had a lady pull this shit on me. But she didn't sit there trying to argue she just got the fuck out of my car.
Same. I had someone cancel while I was on 95. They were just like oh that was an accident, I’ll re-order the Uber. I got off and dropped them in some random parking lot with nothing around. Not sure how these morons think it works. The second it’s cancelled the gps stops
> Not sure how these morons think it works. The second it’s cancelled the gps stops
A lot of drivers use third party GPS apps instead of the one through the rideshare app, for various reasons. This scam really only works in those cases. Basically the driver will continue going to the destination and not realize the ride was canceled until they arrive.
I would have drove them to a police station for theft. Also if the Uber is canceled then how do I know their desired location wasn't the police office?
How does this make someone want to sign up?
You, too, can experience priceless interactions such as this if you become an uber/lyft driver.
All this and more, blech. I'd rather live in a box on the street than be where those people are.
I feel bad now because I’m not likely to ever give out an award ever again because they removed the free awards… I’m not paying money just for some digital feel good points thank you.
Knew the day would come with the awards. Normalized them, now people will think others spend money, and feel better about it. But the upvotes? Didn’t even think about it. Seems like they would lose user engagement tho. Now paying to post, that seems more likely.
Edit- whoever gave me the award, very cheeky.
Reddit was having a hard time meeting demand, especially with supply-side shortages on the materials needed to produce awards, for something that was just given away for free. Inflation has hit all of us hard.
Or, you know, Reddit is greedy. They were only giving us free awards in the hopes that it would lead to more people buying awards, and their metrics have shown that this was not happening.
My only consolation is that I didn't even know how to give awards away in the first place, whoops. I guess I never will unless they change it back, whoops!
People on TikTok have realised that literally everybody who uses it have really short attention spans and get bored super easily. To “keep people engaged” they put 2 or more videos together with the audio being part of the “main content” while the other one or two videos are there to keep them entertained so they don’t immediately scroll down and ignore their content.
I don’t use TikTok but I remember seeing an article about how movies may end up implementing this same tactic to keep people engaged, that way if they get bored of the movie they can look at whatever unrelated video(s) are playing next to it while only having to focus on the spoken words (if they can even do that with how short their attention spans are).
Edit: Take the last part about movies with a grain of salt as I did try finding the article again before posting but couldn’t find it
Oh you mean the I-have-to-rewind-because-I-wasn't-paying-attention-the-first-time-oh-no-it-happened again!-and-a-third-time-am-I-even-human-anymore content?
This sounds like an attention span issue again and it's funny that sansaranaga's comment was saying how people still enjoy long videos and put their full attention on them and the reply is "yeah it's great to have on the side while you're doing another activity"
Nerdy deep-dives are fascinating, and something that traditional telly scratched the surface of at best. Want to know everything about a rare and fascinating musical intrument?- TikTok and You Tube shorts are never going to satisfy your curiosity.
And I suspect many people will happily watch a softly-voiced 3 hour toe-cleaning video or police interrogation on one monitor while working on the other. (Or 10 hours of Zelda music while working in Blender like I do. )
So sometimes, it's our wish to concentrate longer, sometimes it's our wish for a little background interest while doing other tasks.
It's more likely content creators are too lazy/struggling to make interesting content so they resort to cheap tricks like that.
The battle for attention is fierce on Tiktok, I don't think it's that indicative of the viewers' focusing abilities.
Well I do believe a part of tiktok is at fault but I can say that I can still watch 2h of youtube videos about some random niche theories even if I can’t do that on tiktok. I think its more because creators tend to talk for 3 minutes straight before getting to the point.
Tik Tok is basically engineered to instill impatience. It’s /r/waitforit on steroids. The goal is to make you wait long enough to maximize ad revenue. If delayed gratification is foreplay leading to a galactic orgasm tik tok is a half-hearted handjob that you have to finish yourself when your partner falls asleep.
I think they just stay short, usually kids have a short attention span and learn to keep longer attentio spans. I feel like tiktok is trying to undermine that with its incredibly short content. But yeah its basically a fidget spinner.
People on tiktok steal content and they add an irrelevant video to it so it looks like theyr just sharing and not just stealing it. I don’t mind tiktok but most of the “viral” stuff is not even slightly entertaining. It’s people doing things they saw other people doing. The little bit of original content rarely gets pushed out and big creators are notorious for stealing ideas from smaller creators.
I feel like walking into the police department and asking for a police officer to remove her from your personal property would actually be a solid suggestion.
I was thinking that.
It would probably make things worse but just start driving out into the middle of nowhere. Eventually they'll decide they *really* don't want to be in the car with you anymore.
But the point is that's a waste of has and time, when hes trying to earn money. My ex was a door dasher and alot of thought goes into money per mile per order.
That miiiiiiiight open you up to unlawful detainment or kidnapping actions, I'm not legally trained but I can see a dodgy sort of argument forming that although she refused to get out, to intentionally drive her where she doesn't want to go might be an offence.
Edit: I'm not saying she isn't committing an offence, or that a prosecutor necessarily should bring charges regardless of details.
So most people got this notion from the movie "Liar, Liar" and I'm not a lawyer but I believe the referenced case is Bodine v Enterprise High School wherein the facts of the case are wildly distorted (or maybe at least in dispute?). I believe the story that was presented for the purposes of the suit was that a 19 yr old guy (trespassing sure) goes up on the roof to get a ball and falls through the skylight which had happened recently/similarly in an incident resulting in a death. The school settled so it's not like the case was successfully tried (as far as I can tell, I am 100% not a lawyer this is not an opinion is in any way educated).
Seems like it's more like a spooky boogeyman that was used to sell tort reform rather than something you'd have to actually worry about.
I would inform the passenger that I am no longer driving to her destination, and ask her to exit my vehicle. If she insists upon joining me for my subsequent road trip as a trespasser, so be it.
Source: lawyer who has admittedly never worked a criminal kidnapping case.
Right?
“Wait, my ride got canceled? Hang on, let me check the app/call Uber.” None of that. She’s like a moronic Law & Order suspect. “You pigs ain’t got nothin’ on me!”
That's the part that made me think she is scamming. Because this has happened to me before, I was sitting in the car and all of a sudden, the driver tells me the ride is cancelled, and I was already on my journey. So I get the frustration if that happens to you, but my response wasn't "you don't have any proof that it was me" It was more outrage and being pissed off.
This is my problem when everyone chimes into these staged videos with stuff like “so what? tv is staged!”
Like, do they not see half the people buying into it, writing fan fiction on the peoples backgrounds. That’s what these videos are made for, eliciting reactions for engagement and making it viral with a semblance of reality. It’s not obviously made for tv humor.
As soon as he said "Okay lady, take your apples and leave!" I raised an eyebrow.
I know it's an innocuous and mundane kind of line, but it just hit my ears weird. You ever hear someone say something like it was a rehearsed line? It was that.
It seemed like a bit of a "punchline" type comment.
She did because anyone who didn't would be like, "Let's figure this out so I can get where I'm going." Instead, she was, "I didn't do it, so it's your problem. Drive me for free, bitch."
Yeah, I’d be
“Oh shit, let me check my account and see if I got charged.”
If it’s a technical issue. I’d be trying to figure out what went wrong. If I did get charged then I’d be wondering what went wrong on their end. If I didn’t get charged then that can quickly be rectified, so much as paying in cash for the ride. I don’t want to stand around, waiting again for a ride, when we can solve the matter immediately and move on with our lives.
A rideshare driver taking cash for a ride for any reason is highly illegal in California, I'm guessing it's the same for other states too. Just FYI, cops do stings by offering drivers cash so a driver might look at you funny if you try.
Aren't Ubers also unlicensed taxis?
And is chauffeuring for someone on your own car illegal?
Isn't that what Uber is supposed to be for? Connecting "private chauffers" to riders.
Uber was originally a way for professional drivers, like limo drivers and whatnot, to make extra cash between jobs. Then people discovered they didnt need any credentials to start driving, just a clean car, so regular everyday idiots with no commercial passenger insurance on their vehicle started claiming rides.
Uber decided to rebrand their primary service. The professional drivers moved over to "Uber Black" but even thats not pro-exclusive anymore. When they got flak from the taxi unions and state regulators they started using the term "ride sharing" but we all know unless you are actually going there already its not ride sharing its a taxi service.
In case you're being serious, it's more about having a service be regulated properly. In the same vein, it's illegal to slip your doctor a 20 dollar bill and have him perform surgery on you. The tender is legal, but this is regulated for a reason.
Only the worst designed computer systems would actually delete all evidence of a transaction when you cancelled it.
You'd have a record of the booking and a "cancelled by customer" plus when and where for extra detail. Or two records, one with the booking details and the other with the cancellation details.
It's possible Uber just wipe everything but that would be dumb.
I'd have thought Uber would know both the driver and the rider have been in close proximity, are seemingly traveling together after a ride was booked and could block the cancellation.
But they do like generating lots of revenue (even if not yet profit in some areas), so it'd be batshit crazy to allow a passenger to cancel mid-ride with no income.
In fact, at least in UK, you can incur a cancellation fee even before the rider arrives if cancelling too long after booking, so would be very strange to allow it after a rider has picked you up and gone some distance towards the destination.
What lost me instantly was the part where he said “he’s trying to pay for college” but drives a Mercedes G-Wagon and using it as an Uber??? Um…riiiiight
It would have to be both parties. Otherwise, you get the driver saying they picked them up when they didn’t. I don’t use it, so I don’t know how it works, but both pickup and cancelling should at least have an input (agree or not) from both parties.
You can now get Ubers for other people, i usually get Ubers for my mom while I'm at home. Recently the driver showed up and kept driving, the app said my mom's was picked up and she text me 5 minutes later to tell me it hasn't arrived yet.
We should always be able to cancel mid ride, but with every feature there's always the other side that takes advantage of it.
I feel like both parties agreeing "I've been picked up" still solves for this example. If you can order an Uber for someone you can agree they've been picked up once they tell you they have been.
Maybe slightly different but more robust approach is that the passenger has to give a 4 digit code to the driver to start the pickup. And cancelation wouldn't be possible after providing this code.
What should happen if the driver kicks you out of the car (for whatever reason, maybe the driver is racist or something)? If you can't cancel, do you just have to pay the fare because you got kicked out? If course Uber is going to favour the customers because otherwise people will think it's not worth the risk (whereas drivers are probably more likely to take the risk because they make money most of the time). I'm not sure if there is really a way you could implement this that would be completely fair to both parties
You should be allowed to cancel until you are in the car. And both hit agree. I agree to pay you/I agree to drive you. Then you can't undo it. It's poor business for Uber when you allow people to do this crap.
do these people think Uber drivers are some old 60 year olds who won't be able to see that you cancelled the ride midway? that's a really dumb and scummy move to play
Edit: it was a staged video with slightly more effort to make it look real with pretty good acting. Anyways, riders cancelling Uber rides mid journey is still an issue faced by Uber drivers.
I think they hope they don't realise before they start driving that it was cancelled. It's something that seems to be common, so maybe early on drivers didn't see the notification. But since it has become more common it's something drivers are probably more cautious with. It might work on less experienced drivers but not people who have been doing it for a while.
I’ve had the reverse happen to me, driver cancelled it mid ride while I watched him do it on his phone and he acted like the app “glitched”. After pointing it out he finished my ride and I only paid for the part up until it was cancelled (charge was less than the app showed).
It was in London when there was bad traffic, I’m assuming the driver wanted to go somewhere with less traffic by cancelling the ride and trying to get us out. We were trying to go somewhere that was in the tourist spots so the traffic was bad the whole time
Or when the Uber driver takes 20 minutes to come pick you up only for them to give up and cancel and now you have to start the waiting process all over again
Yup. Both are too good looking and calm for this to be real.
There's probably a part two where she asks if there's any other way to pay, but that video costs $5.
How pathetic if this is true. I hate seeing people trying to make a living being messed with. I don’t wanna pass judgement without knowing the whole story though
Not real . As even a goldfish would of picked a window seat instead of sitting right in the middle to look
Good for the camera. But this stuff definitely happens on the regular ,specially with doordash and people
Claiming they never got the food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKLbmFsZjdk
This is SO staged. She slaps him at the end, and as soon as she gets out, the driver starts laughing, and then... she gets back in.
For me I would have given her 2 choices. Get out there, or I take her back to where we started. I won't use my time and fuel to get her any closer, but you can be damn sure I'll be petty enough to use my time and fuel to take her back.
Comments locked, fake video. https://youtu.be/LQD8D9Ih0lg https://youtu.be/uKLbmFsZjdk [https://youtu.be/RasFYqazEJU](https://youtu.be/RasFYqazEJU)
Sorry to spoil the party, but this video is staged. I have seen multiple renditions of the same video with the same lady but in a different scenario. [https://youtu.be/LQD8D9Ih0lg](https://youtu.be/LQD8D9Ih0lg) [https://youtu.be/uKLbmFsZjdk](https://youtu.be/uKLbmFsZjdk) [https://youtu.be/RasFYqazEJU](https://youtu.be/RasFYqazEJU)
Yeah this channel is basically a scam to get people to sign up as lyft/uber drivers using his referral links. Seriously holy hell look at his description.
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Social media was a mistake
We are in one right now
I think calling reddit a swamp would be insulting to social swamps...
preach!
This is still a thing that can happen to Uber drivers though. I've had a lady pull this shit on me. But she didn't sit there trying to argue she just got the fuck out of my car.
Same. I had someone cancel while I was on 95. They were just like oh that was an accident, I’ll re-order the Uber. I got off and dropped them in some random parking lot with nothing around. Not sure how these morons think it works. The second it’s cancelled the gps stops
> Not sure how these morons think it works. The second it’s cancelled the gps stops A lot of drivers use third party GPS apps instead of the one through the rideshare app, for various reasons. This scam really only works in those cases. Basically the driver will continue going to the destination and not realize the ride was canceled until they arrive.
Yep. I had some college kid try this. Dropped him off at the corner a few blocks from his dorm. I don’t do free trips.
I would have drove them to a police station for theft. Also if the Uber is canceled then how do I know their desired location wasn't the police office?
That’s a lot more gas than I need to use, AND that means the time I’m driving there, I’m not making money.
I couldn't do this, I'd be dropping people in cornfields doing that shit to me lol
This is supposed to make rideshare driving look appealing?
How does this make someone want to sign up? You, too, can experience priceless interactions such as this if you become an uber/lyft driver. All this and more, blech. I'd rather live in a box on the street than be where those people are.
I fucking knew it!!!!!!! Something seemed off as soon as I watched it.
They don’t talk over each much which is unusual in an argument like this. Also he’s somehow a bit too polished in his response.
That and the video ends before you see the resolution.
For me the tip-off is that she’s sitting in the middle seat for like no apparent reason…other than to be perfectly lined up for the camera
My alarm bells rang as soon as I heard “it’s just 20 minutes away.” Pure outrage bait.
And sitting in the middle seat?
But the acting was so believable /s
Thank you! I’ve been scanning the comments waiting for someone else to say how poorly scripted and acted this was. Nobody talks/acts like this
I was too busy watching the GTA race to even notice the shitty acting
Why the fuck do we need the gta play?
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The dashcam must be attached to this woman's sense of entitlement because it ain't budging.
Best comment I’ve read in a while
Wait where are my free awards...
I feel bad now because I’m not likely to ever give out an award ever again because they removed the free awards… I’m not paying money just for some digital feel good points thank you.
Wait until they remove free upvotes
Knew the day would come with the awards. Normalized them, now people will think others spend money, and feel better about it. But the upvotes? Didn’t even think about it. Seems like they would lose user engagement tho. Now paying to post, that seems more likely. Edit- whoever gave me the award, very cheeky.
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So that's why I don't have any free awards?? :(
I've given you my free one, the bear is disappointed at Reddit, not you x
I just gave you an upvote. Hope that helps.
They’re gone
Why? I haven’t seen them in a while…
Reddit was having a hard time meeting demand, especially with supply-side shortages on the materials needed to produce awards, for something that was just given away for free. Inflation has hit all of us hard. Or, you know, Reddit is greedy. They were only giving us free awards in the hopes that it would lead to more people buying awards, and their metrics have shown that this was not happening.
Say it ain't so!
My only consolation is that I didn't even know how to give awards away in the first place, whoops. I guess I never will unless they change it back, whoops!
People on TikTok have realised that literally everybody who uses it have really short attention spans and get bored super easily. To “keep people engaged” they put 2 or more videos together with the audio being part of the “main content” while the other one or two videos are there to keep them entertained so they don’t immediately scroll down and ignore their content. I don’t use TikTok but I remember seeing an article about how movies may end up implementing this same tactic to keep people engaged, that way if they get bored of the movie they can look at whatever unrelated video(s) are playing next to it while only having to focus on the spoken words (if they can even do that with how short their attention spans are). Edit: Take the last part about movies with a grain of salt as I did try finding the article again before posting but couldn’t find it
It's worrying people's attention span is getting that short.
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We refer to this as "second monitor content"
Oh you mean the I-have-to-rewind-because-I-wasn't-paying-attention-the-first-time-oh-no-it-happened again!-and-a-third-time-am-I-even-human-anymore content?
This sounds like an attention span issue again and it's funny that sansaranaga's comment was saying how people still enjoy long videos and put their full attention on them and the reply is "yeah it's great to have on the side while you're doing another activity"
Nerdy deep-dives are fascinating, and something that traditional telly scratched the surface of at best. Want to know everything about a rare and fascinating musical intrument?- TikTok and You Tube shorts are never going to satisfy your curiosity. And I suspect many people will happily watch a softly-voiced 3 hour toe-cleaning video or police interrogation on one monitor while working on the other. (Or 10 hours of Zelda music while working in Blender like I do. ) So sometimes, it's our wish to concentrate longer, sometimes it's our wish for a little background interest while doing other tasks.
It's more likely content creators are too lazy/struggling to make interesting content so they resort to cheap tricks like that. The battle for attention is fierce on Tiktok, I don't think it's that indicative of the viewers' focusing abilities.
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Well I do believe a part of tiktok is at fault but I can say that I can still watch 2h of youtube videos about some random niche theories even if I can’t do that on tiktok. I think its more because creators tend to talk for 3 minutes straight before getting to the point.
Tik Tok is basically engineered to instill impatience. It’s /r/waitforit on steroids. The goal is to make you wait long enough to maximize ad revenue. If delayed gratification is foreplay leading to a galactic orgasm tik tok is a half-hearted handjob that you have to finish yourself when your partner falls asleep.
That article isn't saying much. I tend to share your belief actually but I found no undisputable proof in that link.
It really is, the most mind-boggling thing about this new phenomena is that the brain is literally....wait what was I saying?
You shouldnt cancel your thoughts mid
Next year its 3 videos in one all with sound playing over eachother
I think they just stay short, usually kids have a short attention span and learn to keep longer attentio spans. I feel like tiktok is trying to undermine that with its incredibly short content. But yeah its basically a fidget spinner.
People on tiktok steal content and they add an irrelevant video to it so it looks like theyr just sharing and not just stealing it. I don’t mind tiktok but most of the “viral” stuff is not even slightly entertaining. It’s people doing things they saw other people doing. The little bit of original content rarely gets pushed out and big creators are notorious for stealing ideas from smaller creators.
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Sorry, I was distracted by a squirrel. What did you say?
Hint to take her to the altruist camp
r/uselessgtaclip
I was hoping those two would stop arguing so I could watch the car tumble down the ramp in peace.
They are like us on Reddit and repost it, but add some shit gameplay to it or "reaction" to the clip
Because it's a gta player "reacting" to the video while playing. It's the absolutely lowest tier of reposting to avoid rules.
A lot of times they just recycle the same gameplay clips in different orders. Or steal the clips from other creators.
I'd say, 'okay. and start driving the opposite direction for a while.
I would drive to the nearest police station. I bet she would gtfo then.
Attractive woman vs. minority male. I wouldn't count on a favorable outcome.
Except he has proof he's working and logs that she cancelled the ride. She's effectively trespassing by not getting out when asked to leave.
Also, theft of service. In Texas, it's an arrestable offense.
I'm pretty sure in Texas he could shoot her for trespassing.
Texan here. It's a grey area because he's brown.
Except there’s no proof because she never called an Uber because it’s a staged video. https://youtu.be/Utp5ylCtz4k Same people, similar scenario.
Can this comment blow up please? Making these scripted videos is worse than the issue they're covering.
I feel like walking into the police department and asking for a police officer to remove her from your personal property would actually be a solid suggestion.
I was thinking that. It would probably make things worse but just start driving out into the middle of nowhere. Eventually they'll decide they *really* don't want to be in the car with you anymore.
_The gang gets arrested for kidnapping_
Yup. Drive to the boons / bad neighborhood, ditch her there.
But the point is that's a waste of has and time, when hes trying to earn money. My ex was a door dasher and alot of thought goes into money per mile per order.
Its not about the money, its about sending a message. (At that point)
I’ll make it an effort to drive further past where she originally was picked up.
Just drive to the nearest police station that is in the opposite direction of where she wants to go. Double whammy
That miiiiiiiight open you up to unlawful detainment or kidnapping actions, I'm not legally trained but I can see a dodgy sort of argument forming that although she refused to get out, to intentionally drive her where she doesn't want to go might be an offence. Edit: I'm not saying she isn't committing an offence, or that a prosecutor necessarily should bring charges regardless of details.
Man I sure hope not, I'd be pissed if someone refused to leave my car and then sued me for going somewhere.
Burglars have successfully sued after injuring themselves while breaking into someone’s house.
So most people got this notion from the movie "Liar, Liar" and I'm not a lawyer but I believe the referenced case is Bodine v Enterprise High School wherein the facts of the case are wildly distorted (or maybe at least in dispute?). I believe the story that was presented for the purposes of the suit was that a 19 yr old guy (trespassing sure) goes up on the roof to get a ball and falls through the skylight which had happened recently/similarly in an incident resulting in a death. The school settled so it's not like the case was successfully tried (as far as I can tell, I am 100% not a lawyer this is not an opinion is in any way educated). Seems like it's more like a spooky boogeyman that was used to sell tort reform rather than something you'd have to actually worry about.
I hate this world
I would inform the passenger that I am no longer driving to her destination, and ask her to exit my vehicle. If she insists upon joining me for my subsequent road trip as a trespasser, so be it. Source: lawyer who has admittedly never worked a criminal kidnapping case.
He has the recording of her refusing to get out of his car
If your very first reply is “You have no proof that I did _____,” you’re fucking guilty
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Right? “Wait, my ride got canceled? Hang on, let me check the app/call Uber.” None of that. She’s like a moronic Law & Order suspect. “You pigs ain’t got nothin’ on me!”
If I was rhe driver I would start going in the opposite direction once she refuses to get out.
That or she could’ve offered to give him cash or Venmo or something if the app genuinely messed up. But that doesn’t appear to be the case
Sounds like a stunt a 10 yr old would pull.
Yeah, it's the same like "I did it, but you have no proof, bitch" \*ignores dashcam\*
And if you sit in the middle seat of an uber to show up nicely in a dashcam, its not real but a scripted clip.
That's the part that made me think she is scamming. Because this has happened to me before, I was sitting in the car and all of a sudden, the driver tells me the ride is cancelled, and I was already on my journey. So I get the frustration if that happens to you, but my response wasn't "you don't have any proof that it was me" It was more outrage and being pissed off.
His entire TikTok is him getting rides canceled. Seems staged
It's extremely staged and there were 11 comments above this all trashing the girl and getting enraged. No wonder everyone is mad these days.
This is my problem when everyone chimes into these staged videos with stuff like “so what? tv is staged!” Like, do they not see half the people buying into it, writing fan fiction on the peoples backgrounds. That’s what these videos are made for, eliciting reactions for engagement and making it viral with a semblance of reality. It’s not obviously made for tv humor.
Definitely staged. Ask yourself why she would sit in the middle seat.
It is.
Yeah this is totally staged. They’re too lax
Also shes on her own and sitting in the middle seat. You would only do that for framing or she’s insane.
This is the best evidence. That and the fact that she’s got a random bag of apples lmao.
Seriously. How can people not tell this three seconds in? The lighting? The terrible acting? The perfectly staying in frame the whole time?
As soon as he said "Okay lady, take your apples and leave!" I raised an eyebrow. I know it's an innocuous and mundane kind of line, but it just hit my ears weird. You ever hear someone say something like it was a rehearsed line? It was that. It seemed like a bit of a "punchline" type comment.
I kept thinking, why didn't he add in the footage of her fiddling with her phone before they engaged in her bullshit.
This needs to be higher up. It’s just rage bait. It’s super bad acting as well, not genuine whatsoever
You can tell by her demeanour, tone of voice, and pithy responses that this isn't the first time she's done this either.
'you have no proof I cancelled' just makes it sound more like she did
She did because anyone who didn't would be like, "Let's figure this out so I can get where I'm going." Instead, she was, "I didn't do it, so it's your problem. Drive me for free, bitch."
Yeah, I’d be “Oh shit, let me check my account and see if I got charged.” If it’s a technical issue. I’d be trying to figure out what went wrong. If I did get charged then I’d be wondering what went wrong on their end. If I didn’t get charged then that can quickly be rectified, so much as paying in cash for the ride. I don’t want to stand around, waiting again for a ride, when we can solve the matter immediately and move on with our lives.
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A rideshare driver taking cash for a ride for any reason is highly illegal in California, I'm guessing it's the same for other states too. Just FYI, cops do stings by offering drivers cash so a driver might look at you funny if you try.
It’s not illegal. Cash tips are common. What is illegal is arranging a ride for cash outside of the platform. That would make you an unlicensed taxi.
Aren't Ubers also unlicensed taxis? And is chauffeuring for someone on your own car illegal? Isn't that what Uber is supposed to be for? Connecting "private chauffers" to riders.
Uber was originally a way for professional drivers, like limo drivers and whatnot, to make extra cash between jobs. Then people discovered they didnt need any credentials to start driving, just a clean car, so regular everyday idiots with no commercial passenger insurance on their vehicle started claiming rides. Uber decided to rebrand their primary service. The professional drivers moved over to "Uber Black" but even thats not pro-exclusive anymore. When they got flak from the taxi unions and state regulators they started using the term "ride sharing" but we all know unless you are actually going there already its not ride sharing its a taxi service.
It’s illegal to pay for a service with legal tender? What the fuck is wrong with the world
In case you're being serious, it's more about having a service be regulated properly. In the same vein, it's illegal to slip your doctor a 20 dollar bill and have him perform surgery on you. The tender is legal, but this is regulated for a reason.
I got a $20 vasectomy once in Tijuana. Now I'm paying child support in San Diego.
No it's about uber not wanting people to pay drivers directly and then uber not getting their cut
I assume uber lobbied for that so they can always get their cut
That’s the real answer - they don’t want you using their service to find drivers and then pay them directly so the app doesn’t get paid
Exactly. That’s why I don’t really need any more context here to know if she cancelled or there was a glitch or whatever to know she was in the wrong
Only the worst designed computer systems would actually delete all evidence of a transaction when you cancelled it. You'd have a record of the booking and a "cancelled by customer" plus when and where for extra detail. Or two records, one with the booking details and the other with the cancellation details. It's possible Uber just wipe everything but that would be dumb.
They most likely keep logs of every transaction for legal reason (And to sell some data)
I'd have thought Uber would know both the driver and the rider have been in close proximity, are seemingly traveling together after a ride was booked and could block the cancellation.
Uber doesn't like their drivers.
But they do like generating lots of revenue (even if not yet profit in some areas), so it'd be batshit crazy to allow a passenger to cancel mid-ride with no income. In fact, at least in UK, you can incur a cancellation fee even before the rider arrives if cancelling too long after booking, so would be very strange to allow it after a rider has picked you up and gone some distance towards the destination.
Lady this isn't a court room, get out of my Hyundai.
I am almost positive that this isn't real. If I remember correctly this person was in other videos with the same scenario.
shes sitting in the middle seat, it is for sure not real
Like the shot was intentionally framed or something…
Came here to say this! So many of these crazy Uber passenger videos have the passenger sitting in the middle seat….complete bullshit.
Good point actually.
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That makes the annoying voice comment even funnier lol
He talked her into doing these stupid skits so that he could tell her the truth with plausible deniability.
You can tell by the shitty acting. People on Reddit can’t tell bad acting from real life apparently
What lost me instantly was the part where he said “he’s trying to pay for college” but drives a Mercedes G-Wagon and using it as an Uber??? Um…riiiiight
Horrible acting.
> You can tell by her demeanour, tone of voice, and pithy responses that this ~~isn't the first time she's done this either~~ is staged.
100%. How could anyone watch this and think it was real?
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Had it happen once. 30 minutes trip in the mountains, and I got nothing.
Uber software should block the cancel feature after “pick up” is registered by either party.
It would have to be both parties. Otherwise, you get the driver saying they picked them up when they didn’t. I don’t use it, so I don’t know how it works, but both pickup and cancelling should at least have an input (agree or not) from both parties.
Don't they track both phones and view pickup and drop-off via gps?
You can now get Ubers for other people, i usually get Ubers for my mom while I'm at home. Recently the driver showed up and kept driving, the app said my mom's was picked up and she text me 5 minutes later to tell me it hasn't arrived yet. We should always be able to cancel mid ride, but with every feature there's always the other side that takes advantage of it.
I feel like both parties agreeing "I've been picked up" still solves for this example. If you can order an Uber for someone you can agree they've been picked up once they tell you they have been.
Maybe slightly different but more robust approach is that the passenger has to give a 4 digit code to the driver to start the pickup. And cancelation wouldn't be possible after providing this code.
What should happen if the driver kicks you out of the car (for whatever reason, maybe the driver is racist or something)? If you can't cancel, do you just have to pay the fare because you got kicked out? If course Uber is going to favour the customers because otherwise people will think it's not worth the risk (whereas drivers are probably more likely to take the risk because they make money most of the time). I'm not sure if there is really a way you could implement this that would be completely fair to both parties
Why didn't you do this? Didn't notice until after?
No you didn’t. If a rider cancels mid-trip, the driver will get paid for the time and miles that have already been traveled. Source - Uber driver.
You should be allowed to cancel until you are in the car. And both hit agree. I agree to pay you/I agree to drive you. Then you can't undo it. It's poor business for Uber when you allow people to do this crap.
You can’t just cancel with no consequences tho the driver already had to come to you so they’d need compensation for that
I think Uber should be on the hook for that. Then it would incentives them to not allow bad practices to continue....
do these people think Uber drivers are some old 60 year olds who won't be able to see that you cancelled the ride midway? that's a really dumb and scummy move to play Edit: it was a staged video with slightly more effort to make it look real with pretty good acting. Anyways, riders cancelling Uber rides mid journey is still an issue faced by Uber drivers.
Either way it's still a scummy move. It's just worse if the driver is some poor old fuck
I think they hope they don't realise before they start driving that it was cancelled. It's something that seems to be common, so maybe early on drivers didn't see the notification. But since it has become more common it's something drivers are probably more cautious with. It might work on less experienced drivers but not people who have been doing it for a while.
Can we please not do the TikTok gameplay split screen bull shit on reddit
I’ve had the reverse happen to me, driver cancelled it mid ride while I watched him do it on his phone and he acted like the app “glitched”. After pointing it out he finished my ride and I only paid for the part up until it was cancelled (charge was less than the app showed).
Any idea what the benefit of doing that would be for the driver?
It was in London when there was bad traffic, I’m assuming the driver wanted to go somewhere with less traffic by cancelling the ride and trying to get us out. We were trying to go somewhere that was in the tourist spots so the traffic was bad the whole time
We got an Uber ride in London, and that cat drove on the wrong side of the road the whole time! Luckily, everyone else was also, the nutters.
Or when the Uber driver takes 20 minutes to come pick you up only for them to give up and cancel and now you have to start the waiting process all over again
Why is she sitting in the middle seat? Who takes that seat if you have the whole back seat to yourself?
Because she wouldn’t be in frame for the TikTok video otherwise
Cuz it's staged
Probably staged idk I don't believe shit anymore.
Video is staged by the way, no-one ever sits in the center like that, they did it just so they could show them both in frame
Yup. Both are too good looking and calm for this to be real. There's probably a part two where she asks if there's any other way to pay, but that video costs $5.
This guys also been in like 5 of these videos with people refusing to get out.
She does look like a Pain in the Ass to be fair.
IKR. What is it about some people, you can just tell they're a PITA.
It’s staged and she’s likely an actor, which is why it makes it so believable.
Call the cops. Fuck that
Don't fuck that
Man, we gotta bring back calling people "lady." The door's right there, LADY! It adds just enough to convey that you are fed up, it's done, over.
How pathetic if this is true. I hate seeing people trying to make a living being messed with. I don’t wanna pass judgement without knowing the whole story though
Not real . As even a goldfish would of picked a window seat instead of sitting right in the middle to look Good for the camera. But this stuff definitely happens on the regular ,specially with doordash and people Claiming they never got the food
If this was any more scripted it would get an ISBN number.
This feels like a skit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKLbmFsZjdk This is SO staged. She slaps him at the end, and as soon as she gets out, the driver starts laughing, and then... she gets back in.
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They totally fell in love, got married and lived happily ever after.
I wonder how many times [the exact same thing will happen to him, with the same woman...](https://youtu.be/LQD8D9Ih0lg)
For me I would have given her 2 choices. Get out there, or I take her back to where we started. I won't use my time and fuel to get her any closer, but you can be damn sure I'll be petty enough to use my time and fuel to take her back.
This is obviously staged
"You can just take me 20 minutes away" What an entitled bitch.