Uber Passenger Refuses to Get out & gets beat

[logicallefty]

I wonder if she will get out of the car next time?

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...tered-Her-Jaw-on-New-Years-Eve-365057711.html

Legally, he had every right to order her out. Should have called the police to drag her out though instead of letting it escalate. I have been called to Taxi\passenger disputes as a cop. One time I actually had to drag a woman out of a taxi. She was so drunk she pi$$ed all over the cab and I got some of her pi$$ on me!

 

[Bible_Belt]

I'm sure Uber will settle the case for an "undisclosed amount," which is typical of lawsuits like this, the ones that would have no chance of actually winning at trial. She's suing Uber, not the guy who beat her up. So she'd have to demonstrate that Uber should have known not to hire this guy and was negligent by doing so.

It's a good example of going after the money and not necessarily whoever is most at fault.

A friend of mine was an Uber driver in Atlanta when it was new. He said he did it for fun, but the money was decent. He's a little bigger than me and always carried concealed when he was driving people. He never had any problems. But he stopped driving for Uber after more people became drivers and the compensation dropped due to the competition.

 

[logicallefty]

Oh boo-hoo. Whiny b!tch clearly was drunk and being disruptive, which is not safe when someone is driving a car. He had every right, like you said Lefty, to kick her out, but it does look like he took it a bit too far.

Also, the video on the website was edited. Go figure.

Yep he may not have thought about it from a law perspective... But I don't care what the situation is, if you are in someone else's vehicle or even say a city bus or taxi owned by a company. If the driver tells you to get out, and you don't, you have now trespassed. Absolutely no different than being in someone's home and the owner telling you to get out but you refuse. I wish the guy would have called the cops. If the cops asked her to get out and she refused their order, they could have hooked her for "Criminal Trespass to Vehicle" and "Obstruction". She could go to jail and see how her cute little face and big tough attitude worked out. Of course, had that happened, the media probably never would have wrote about it and we would never know it took place.

There are a whole tangent of topics we could go with this:

- How "tough" women get when they are drunk....

- How disrespectful women are to service people, and others such as the other passenger...

- How women push their limits to the cliff, then play the victim card and lean towards the system when it doesn't work out in their favor....

- Or, just how stupid women can be! lol

 

[Bible_Belt]

I didn't watch the video, but there are almost zero circumstances where it is justified to use physical force to defend property. Yes, it is trespassing, but that doesn't give the property owner the right to commit battery and expect to be immune from criminal and more importantly, civil liability. You're just supposed to call the police.

One of my mma buddies was bagging groceries at a major chain store and some crackhead ran through the door carrying a box of cosmetics. They knew the guy as a repeat shoplifter. My friend tackled him a few steps out the door. The cops thought it was hilarious when they came and arrested the guy, so did everyone around. Then the next day at work, my buddy got called into the store manager's office, who have him a very serious talk about never telling anyone what happened. He wasn't allowed to talk to media or anyone else. The store knew that, regardless of the one-sided circumstances, they would end up paying a settlement if the guy sued.

 

[logicallefty]

@Bible_Belt I pretty much agree about the physical force to defend property thing. He didn't have a right to touch her at all. But if he had just called the police and had them get her out, he would have been free and clear and still have his job. And she would have got what she deserved too, jail/court instead of a broken jaw. When I had to yank the woman out of the taxi and arrest her it was a slam dunk, she plead guilty to both charges.