OT: Person berates Uber driver in front of Grizzly Peak, makes front page of Reddit

Submitted by Rosey09 on

A video from an Ann Arbor Uber driver getting berated by a college-aged person made the front page of Reddit this morning. 

 

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Raback Omaba

March 27th, 2016 at 10:57 AM ^

Will probably get attacked or negged for saying this, but whatever....as a native Michigander, got really tired of the attitude that many (not all) east coasters brought to UofM. This is a perfect example and candidly is the reason why a lot of Michiganders (many UofM students too) like hanging out and partying at MSU better. Just a better, more chill crowd. I used to bump heads with these clowns daily. If I were this UBER driver I would've told this New York fuck to go play stickball in an alleyway.

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SpikeFan2016

March 27th, 2016 at 6:39 PM ^

In my opinion, the worst of the worst are from the Grosse Pointe, Michigan area.

 

A lot of bad apples from everywhere, but in my opinion I love that we have more geographic diversity than any other major state school. Don't get mad at the East Coasters, that's stereotypical and stupid. We don't even know where he's from. 

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Optimism Attache

March 27th, 2016 at 12:45 PM ^

Or maybe Michigan was the only decent school they got into?

I think two factors are at play. 1) If you can afford go to UM out of state, you are more likely to be fairly well off and often with that comes a sense of privilege, and that can make it easier to be a douche with fewer consequences. 2) Having lived out here a while, I find the Boston to Philly corridor to just be a more macho, fake hardass culture than in the Midwest.

Of course, the vast majority of kids from the East Coast at Michigan I found to be perfectly nice people. But in cases where someone acted like an entitled asshole like this guy, the East Coasters (most of whom come frome NY/NJ) were overly represented.

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mgoblue0970

March 27th, 2016 at 11:33 AM ^

Lemme guess... you're from the east coast.

And most rich kids coming from out of state are nothing but positive contributors to campus life
Do you any empirical evidence to back that up? I think there's quite a few people around the Treetops area which would like to chime in there.

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gwkrlghl

March 27th, 2016 at 12:20 PM ^

I'm not going to say all kids from the NYC region are dicks because of course that's true (and of course some kids from MI act like that), but all of us who have attended Michigan can pick out the Jersey/Long Island kids from a mile away. As un-PC as it is, you can usually pick out the Jersey boys pretty easy

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MichiganMAN47

March 27th, 2016 at 11:25 AM ^

Not really sure what prompted this response... Something about being kicked off Uber? I don't know how the app works, since I haven't used it. If someone does something offensive enough, I think berating them is fine. People who do offensive/disrespectful things should be berated so they learn their lesson. What leads me to think that the uber driver couldn't have done anything too offensive is the nonchalant way in which this guy berated him. But again, that's just speculation.

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MichiganMAN47

March 27th, 2016 at 12:49 PM ^

We still don't know what the driver said to provoke this. If he said "you are a bunch of pussies" then maybe the use of that slur is more justified (although still not politically correct). People are engaging in the " what you see is all there is" fallacy a bit here. We know what these guys said, but we haven't a clue what the driver said. There are people who like to provoke arguments and then record the reaction- I have seen it happen before, as a passive-aggressive behavior.

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bronxblue

March 27th, 2016 at 12:26 PM ^

I cannot think of something a guy could say to me to unload quite like that.  It's an Uber driver - you get back at him by giving him a terrible rating and complaining to Uber.  Guys with bad ratings get pulled pretty quickly.

My guess is (based on Uber rides I've heard about here in NYC) that the guys in the car wanted to do something the driver didn't allow (e.g. smoke, blast music, said something inappropriate toward someone in the car/on the street) and he told them to get out.  

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MGoUberBlue

March 27th, 2016 at 12:02 PM ^

It's one thing to mistreat any fellow human......there is no excuse for this.

But to continue when the Uber driver is video taping the episode is beyond fucking stupid.

I hope to see this little deuchebag one day in downtown Ann Arbor, just to see how he normally carries his persona.

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Zoltanrules

March 27th, 2016 at 12:43 PM ^

What a bunch of losers. Would like to spend a minute with hair club dude and give him an education his parents obviously didn't do.

Pricks like this come to A2 from all over. It's usually more a spoiled rich kid thing more than anything else. Also anyone who worked a service job would never be so disrespectful.

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CoverZero

March 27th, 2016 at 2:45 PM ^

Good luck getting a job after you (maybe) graduate...asshole kid.

This video will be seen by many recruiters.  Maybe he is perfect for Wall Street, or some type of attorney.  Other than that, its manual labor.

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