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My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

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Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

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Post by ookblah »

hsod wrote: post #25

Interesting story, but I think it was a bit unfair to Uber. I'm glad this guy was made whole, but I'm not sure Uber's reluctance to paying you 4000 dollars because a driver stole your backpack qualifies as corruption. From what I can tell, the worst thing Uber did was not be sufficiently cooperative with the police investigation. This part of the narrative is extremely muddled and unclear, so it's hard to take a stro…

"the worst thing Uber did was not be sufficiently cooperative with the police investigation."

Lol, as if that's acceptable for any company in an investigation. I'm not sure if you're playing coy, but your words are trying to insert doubt into his story when there really is none.

They blatantly tried to make this guys life much more difficult than it needed to be and their track record has shown they really have a culture of not caring about this stuff no matter the "narrative".

Quite frankly, I'm surprised this comment was voted to the top.

Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

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Post by burkaman »

haberman wrote: post #57
burkaman wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Literally does mean virtually now. If you care about using words to convey meaning, you should care what other people think words mean. What you think is pretty much irrelevant if everyone else disagrees with you.

If a word has two definitions that have opposite meanings, then the word literally doesn't have any meaning at all. > What you think is pretty much irrelevant if everyone else disagrees with you. You don't think I can find a single other person who agrees with me?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym#Examples

"cleave" and "sanction" are probably the most familiar examples here.

Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

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Post by __david__ »

valuearb wrote: post #45
burkaman wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think the Microsoft store is selling chargers that will set your laptop on fire?

I can believe they aren't up to Apple's standards for their laptops.

You're a fool if you think that a Microsoft charger is going to "smoke your $2000 laptop". Everything Microsoft sells is guaranteed to be agency certified, which is going to make sure it doesn't short out and destroy things. The chargers you have to watch out for are the shady counterfeit ones on Amazon that are pretty much guaranteed to not have agency certifications and range anywhere from "probably ok" to "fire hazard waiting to happen".

Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

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Post by ricardobeat »

king_panic wrote: post #56

did anyone else notice this blog post is on site that sells hot sauce?

Yes, we did. Quoting from the post:

> If you didn’t know, FYM Hot Sauce was the first sponsor for the professional DotA 2 team, “Team NP. [...] When Team NP (who had never qualified for a major tournament) made it to the their first major tournament, held in Boston I decided to go and support them.

> If someone tried to run off with a bag full of hot sauce in one of my other suitcases it would be awkward and ultimately not a huge deal

Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

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Post by JavaOffScript »

tbrake wrote: post #30

I don't get the "should have heard the car drive away and chased him" angle they twice tried. He should be at fault for not being as fast as a car? Most people aren't going to be able to run at >10mph for very long, forget about anything more. And even then, suppose he had caught up to the car and the driver didn't want to stop. Just slimy.

Sure, run after a speeding car flying into traffic, leave your other bags behind, risk your life so that you can stop a corrupt uber driver from robbing you. And if he refuses to give you your bag back, just fist fight him. Man up and take some responsibility!

Every day I hear something so ridiculous from Uber I can't believe it. Seems like Lyft's biggest advertisement should be "Lyft: we're not uber"

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Post by gravypod »

"I just didn’t buy that a company could just get away with that business model. Hire anyone with a car, facilitate everything, and have no responsibility for what happens in the cars."

If I got food sick from something I ordered off GrubHub could I sue them?

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Post by daveguy »

gravypod wrote: post #76

"I just didn’t buy that a company could just get away with that business model. Hire anyone with a car, facilitate everything, and have no responsibility for what happens in the cars." If I got food sick from something I ordered off GrubHub could I sue them?

No, but you could if their delivery driver robbed you.

Re: My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

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Post by thisone »

gravypod wrote: post #76

"I just didn’t buy that a company could just get away with that business model. Hire anyone with a car, facilitate everything, and have no responsibility for what happens in the cars." If I got food sick from something I ordered off GrubHub could I sue them?

if grubhub's practices meant that you received food that made you ill, you may have a case.
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