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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
1. Well, when you get in a stranger's car who isn't licensed to taxi people around
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 07:43 PM
Jul 2016

You leave yourself open to dealing with nuts. Better be glad he wasn't a murderer.

Skittles

(153,169 posts)
4. what led up to that?
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 07:51 PM
Jul 2016

seriously, it didn't start with that one question

and before anyone ACCUSES ME of any nefarious implication, I'd really like to know why he is so angry (I myself would never use Uber)

JanMichael

(24,890 posts)
5. Calm isn't the word for it. Dumb is. This could've easily been evidence in a murder trial.
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 07:51 PM
Jul 2016

When someone starts going nuts like that in a car get the fuck out. That phone isn't going to stop him if he really snaps.

lame54

(35,295 posts)
6. My dog once swam into a lake to chase some geese...
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 07:59 PM
Jul 2016

they could have easily flown away but instead they swam slightly faster than my dog keeping him out there for 45 minutes till I was finally able to get him out. They where trying to drown him

This girl seemed to be trying to give him a heart attack.

Which one is the psycho killer?

JanMichael

(24,890 posts)
10. Maybe both? That's just a bad scene.
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 08:03 PM
Jul 2016

If he was the intended victim maybe taking the keys and walking off and calling the cops would have been a better choice?

Also I wonder which one was carrying? Maybe the woman was trying to egg him into shooting him?

Oh and you dog is lucky. Water birds are evil.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
7. I agree, she was a fool to stay there and try to reason with a
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 08:00 PM
Jul 2016

raving lunatic. He was psycho, but she was kind of egging him on after the first few questions.

Skittles

(153,169 posts)
9. she did it on purpose so she could film him
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 08:02 PM
Jul 2016

people are taking ridiculous chances, hoping to be the next viral sensation

3catwoman3

(24,007 posts)
13. She's damn lucky he didn't pull a gun.
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 08:24 PM
Jul 2016

I try to stay as far away from lunatics as possible. I would have been gone in a heartbeat.

The whole Uber idea seems fraught with risk. My 26 and 23 year old sons use it. I wish they wouldn't, for reasons just such as this.

Captain Stern

(2,201 posts)
14. I actually emphasize with the guy.
Tue Jul 12, 2016, 08:34 PM
Jul 2016

I think something went on before this, or she wouldn't have been recording it.

It's not like he's dropping her off in the middle of the country someplace. He took her to the hospital, and just wants her to get out of his car, and she won't.

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