Uber: Why Passenger Rating Matters – Are Drivers Refusing Your Ride? – Jonathan Russell

Just because they CAN, doesn’t mean they SHOULD. We’re talking about Uber & Lyft drivers cancelling or not accepting a ride request, just because a passenger has a ‘low rating’. Passenger Ratings should not have any effect on whether your ride request is accepted or cancelled, because as we’ve seen – there are any Uber Nashville and Lyft Nashville drivers in town that Give out 1-Star ratings for passengers just because they won’t buy the driver pizza, or want to go through a drive-thru, or don’t take a trip long…

Reminder: Crime Prevention Meeting Today @ 11AM – @ Drifter’s

Just a quick reminder that if you want to take part in the East Nashville Neighborhood Watch’s “Crime Prevention Meeting”, then you should show up at Drifters today from 11AM – 12:30PM. We’re still not sure what crime they’ve ever prevented – but if you want to sit around while MNPD officers watch you eat a burger and drink a beer on a weekday during lunch, then this is the place you want to be. Also, you get the pleasure of meeting the captain of the neighborhood pink posse ,…

East Nashville “Crime Prevention” Meeting & Meet Neighborhood Watch Captain Bob Acuff

We’ve had enough ride-share entertainment for this week, and have nearly 20 similar ones in the tipbox in case it’s a slow news day anytime soon – so let’s get back to the real ‘East Nashville’ business… you  know the kind… where we like to pretend we’re in control of everything, and nothing happens in the neighborhood without both our knowledge AND approval? yea, that stuff. That can only mean it’s time to talk about the weekly ‘East Nashville Crime Prevention’ Meeting (known as the CPM to those in the…

Neighborhood Watchful: Suspicious Black/Brown Male Reported by a Racist Hipster Edition

It just wouldn’t be the same if an entire day passed without this happening in East Nashville: White hipster chick (the kind from those Aerial Developments) goes jogging through a perfectly nice neighborhood and sees a non-white person either on a lawn, using a sidewalk, sitting a porch (they MUST be casing the joint!), or heaven forbid knocking on the front door instead of the back – and hipster chick either immediately calls 911 to report a ‘suspicious character’ or goes on Facebook to warn all her other white Aerial Development…