Tag: passenger

Ethan Carter charged with public intoxication after refusing to stay away from interstate traffic

Jason Steen

Police were investigating a vehicle crash in which 23-year-old Ethan Carter was a passenger. As he exited the vehicle he was obviously intoxicated, and police say he was disorderly during the entire investigation and continuously stumbled into the roadway, into lanes of traffic, and refused to exit the interstate exit-ramp to an area that was safer for pedestrians. He was eventually taken into custody and charged with public intoxication due to his refusal to care for his own safety in his state of intoxication.

Don’t Pass Out Drunk in an Uber – Your Driver May Put Your Photo Online! -Rachel Rubalcaba

Jason Steen

When we request an Uber after a night out of drinking, we expect to be taken home safely and efficiently. What we don’t expect is to have our photo taken and posted on social media, blasting us for passing out on the way home – but that’s exactly what happened to a passenger on Saturday with his Nashville Uber Driver, Rachel Rubalcaba. We blurred his face, but she did not. The caption of the photo written by the driver was “When a guy passes out in your front seat and…

Nashville Lyft Driver Kicks ‘Poor’ Passengers Out of BMW, says “How in the heck could they afford a premium ride” – on Thanksgiving Day

Jason Steen

Angie Higgins is a Lyft Driver and first female Commander of VFW Post 5064, and on Thanksgiving evening around 4PM she got a request for a Lyft Premier ride, and she traveled to the passenger’s pick up location, which was a hotel in Murfreesboro, no different than a hundred other similar rides every day in the nashville Lyft market. The ride was estimated to be about 45 minutes. Except she ended the ride and dumped her passengers at a gas station shortly after picking them up. What did she have…

Uber Nashville Driver Posts Photo of Drunken, Passed Out Passenger, Abandons Him in Grass.

Jason Steen

What do you do if you’re an Uber driver in Nashville, and your passenger is so drunk that after a twenty minute ride he has no idea where he’s going? Well, ideally you’d take him to the address he put as his destination in the pax app, assuming he was coherent enough to request an Uber, that much should, at least, be correct. What did new Uber Nashville driver Chris Jamison do? Every story has two sides, and according to his post on social media this morning, where he posted…