A woman coughed on and assaulted an Uber driver after being told to put on a mask. She announced she would use Lyft after the incident but has been banned by them as well.
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An Uber driver shared this now viral video of an incident where he was attacked by a passenger.
Subhakar Khadka, 32, was doing his job when these three women enter his vehicle. When he noticed that one of them wasn't wearing a mask, he requested them to comply with the rules and out one on. That's when the woman in question escalated the situation and proceeded to cough on Khadka.
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Other than just coughing on him, her companions screamed racially charged abuse at him as she moved towards the dashboard to grab his phone. Khadka was quick to grab it back and tried to defend himself.
As he turned back to ask them to leave the vehicle, the woman then pulled Khadka's mask off his face. All this while the three kept repeating, "F*** the masks."
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Khadka is then seen presenting the mask to the camera.
After the incident, he claimed that he had stopped at a gas station so the maskless woman could purchase one and continue with the ride.
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He also revealed that the woman in red exited the vehicle but pepper prayed him through the passenger window.
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One passenger later put up a video where she said she was being left on the freeway and that "My boyfriend taught me, don't let nobody play with you, smack the f*** out of them, that's what I was taught."
""If y'all boyfriends told y'all to get out of the car and get robbed or whatever the f*** would have happened then that's on you. He's lucky as hell I didn't have nothing on me because if he would have played with me, it would have been a whole different story."
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Other videos have since come up which show the passenger side of the situation. There she claimed that she was being kidnapped and then abandoned.
"Everybody I know, 75 percent of people I know would have smacked the s*** out of him or done some crazy ass, off the wall s***. All I did was take his mask off and cough a little bit but I don't even have corona.
"I ain't gonna lie that's disrespectful as f***. But it could have been avoided, period point blank. It could have been avoided, you could have just waited and made sure we were safe."
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She then said, "That's why I take Lyft. That's why I take Lyft. That's why I take Lyft. I'm going to sue Uber. They've seen the whole video so they know they dead ass wrong."
Lyft however tweeted a statement saying,
"Although this incident did not involve the Lyft platform, the unacceptable treatment of the driver in this video compelled us to permanently remove the rider from the Lyft community.
Driving in a pandemic is not easy. Please wear a mask, respect one another, and be a good person."