Terrifying Uber story

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Well, I've got the last story
of the night. No easy task after

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what we've laid out thus far to
well, yeah, yeah, I mean

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that was a good one. We've
had some good ones tonight this will be

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the last one. Let me get
the music going. This is called Terrifying

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Uber story. I'm sharing this as
a precautionary tale, and I understand that

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most of this was my fault,
but maybe if I can help one person

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by telling my story, it's worth
it. It's creepy as hell, and

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I want people to learn from my
experience. I don't drink much as a

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general rule, but once a month
or so I'll go out with friends.

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A few nights ago, my friends
and I had a great night at the

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bar in the city, and then
they left. I was chatting with a

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cute guy, so I decided to
stay and went back to his place.

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The rest of that part was very
unsatisfying, and I immediately thought I'm ready

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to head home. I called an
uber to come pick me up where I

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am. I know the city I'm
in, but I'm not sure of my

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exact location. I tried one uber, but it was taking forever, so

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I canceled it and decided to try
again. Pretty soon a car pulled up

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and I druggingly mumbled something along the
lines of is this the uber and I

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hopped in. Drivers are apparently supposed
to have some kind of marketing on the

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vehicles, but the kind of state
I was in at the moment, I

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didn't pay attention to that. The
guy pulls away and starts driving and chatting.

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I'm fumbling for a cigarette and the
next thing I noticed is we're heading

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down the highway, but in the
opposite direction I thought we needed to be

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driving, and we're going to solid
ninety miles per hour. Then I get

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a call from my herber Uber driver
telling me he's there and I'm not because

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I'm in the car with some random
nutcase. I started texting my friend frantically

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counting off mile markers for her.
I realized at that point that's not going

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to do Jack squat because she's probably
wasted too. I called nine to one

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one at this point, but I
realized this guy is crazy. He's to

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do this. He's crazy. He's
refusing to let me get out of the

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car. So I got to do
this in a manner that he won't comprehend.

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It's been over half an hour at
this point, and I'm terrified.

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I don't know where I am.
I have no idea who this person is,

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and we're driving over ninety miles an
hour while weaving in and out of

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traffic in the early morning hours.
This guy is trying to get me to

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hang up my cell phone, saying
things like get off the phone. Who

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the hell are you talking to?
You? Better not be a snitch.

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I'm terrified and I don't want to
do anything that might provoke a violent reaction

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from him. I start chatting with
the nine to one to one dispatcher as

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if it's my friend, praying that
they'll catch on. Hey girl, it's

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me. Yeah, I need someone
right now. We're driving past this highway

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exit. Now it's not my where
I thought it was with us not It's

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a shame. You can't come meet
up and hang out with us. Bring

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your friend, and bring all of
our friends. Thank god. The operator

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catches on. He gets me to
stay on the phone while he sends cops,

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and we develop a code. If
I see cops, I'm supposed to

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casually put my hand out the window, which looks my normal because I'm smoking

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a cigarette. We pulled into some
random little housing complex, and he bust

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out some powder and forms two lines. I now understand why he's emotionally unstable.

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Pretty soon I can see the lights
from the cop cars, so I

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start waving my hand out the window. At this point, I don't care

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if he's onto me or not.
I don't know if he has a weapon,

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but I slum down in my seat
just in case things get a little

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hot. And then cops surround us, remove me from the car, take

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me to safety. Then they arrest
a guy. They took me to the

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hospital for evaluation. All the way
to the hospital I find out this guy

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had been a federal prison for twenty
years of his near forty years of existence.

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That is where my story ends.
Hopefully people will learn from my mistake,

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and if nothing else, call nine
one one, stay on the line.

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Oh man, that is that is
terrifying. That's nothing that can easily

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happen right like all the time,
Uber driver, sure, yeah, I'm

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uber, Yeah baby, get on
in you know, like, yeah,

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you wouldn't even if you're in a
bad state and even think about it.

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Yeah, I mean you hear about
stuff like this a lot because it constantly

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happens. People get into what they
think is an uber or it could even

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be an uber, but it's set
up for like you know, something crazy

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happens a lot and all the world, different countries. You get taxi in

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the wrong area, you can end
up someplace you don't want to be a

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lot of people are commenting that.
Always asking the uber driver is make sure

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you verify a lot of people are
saying things, But I think it's important

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to mention that the state of this
person was doxicated. Yes, she was

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very drunk. Yeah, yeah,
so I mean you're not going to have

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much luck there. She mentioned that
she understands now that uber driver's supposed to

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have some sort of marking and what
they do have like a little sign that

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they put in their window, do
they? Yeah, I've only I've only

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noticed it when I've been into a
convention and I got in the coup ubers.

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There's like a oh, they have
a little light up sign thing that

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they put in their window. But
it's not supernoiceable at the best of times.

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This is a night too. Yeah, if you're if you're drunk at

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night, you're not gonna see it. So like at that point, you

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couldn't see it at your cosplay convention
let alone. Yeah, you barely see

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it. Yeah, and there was
costplay there. It wasn't a cost but

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anyway, Yeah, it makes sense
though, like, uh, this person

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she could have been, it could
have got so much worse. She was

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very smart though too to stay on
the line and kind of like you know,

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they can see like she was talking
to a friend at it. How

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could this be prevented? Well,
one thing, you if you're drunk,

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you need to make sure you check
your apps, make sure you get like

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a notification that your driver's there.
Captain Hindsight, the Harold of the modern

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day. Captain Heightsight, Thank god
you come. They should have built fire

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escapes on those windows for the higher
floors. Then people could have gotten down.

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Well, it looks like my job
here is done. Goodbye everyone,

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I say you up there? Yeah, well, I say you can't plan

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for the best of times though,
right, because like you're gonna make a

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mistake. No one's gonna be on
it all the time. So people are

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waiting. People are waiting to prey
on people. That's a scary part.

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Yeah, they really are. They'll
be uh, you know, people will

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prowl areas where they know people will
get ubers like clubs, yeah, and

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stuff like that. I've seen that
on a What would you Do? You've

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seen that show? I don't.
It's on ABC. I think it's been

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on forever. But he uh,
they did this scenario where they acted like

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obviously they're actors, right, the
girl and then the fake uber driver was

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trying to get her to go in
the car, and people were like,

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really helpful, but if nobody's there
for you, then you're kind of soll

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Yeah, it was this exact same
it's kind of the same scenario, but

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there were people nearby and they did
react and made sure that they called the

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cops and everything on this guy.
Man, everybody was on it. People

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were going to fight him and everything. But this poor lady did not have

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that same scenario. So, yeah, that's a scary one because it could

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just happen. It will happen again. There's no way it's not gonna happen

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again. And somethody you can't prepare
for all the time because only you know,

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paranoid people are always ready to be
attacked. But you're right, she

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did a great thing by and really
good thinking. Though even though the states

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she was in to do the stay
on the phone and describe like all that

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without giving it away. Yeah,
well this person was obviously out of their

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mind. Yeah. We talked about
a lot of these other stories where people

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don't get on the phone immediately or
something like that. It's like, no,

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yeah, call the cops as soon
as you can, you know,

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if you just have speakerphone on and
you just letting them hear sounds. Jeff

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Townsend Media sees you good night,
and the question is do I stay here?

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Will you be back? Are you
gonna come back? Will you be

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back? Are you coming back