Horrifying Uber Stories

#1 Frightening And Deadly Uber Stories

Expensive taxi cabs are out, and rides you can get through your phone app are in, and less expensive. There's a reason why they are less costly, and some of those reasons are frightening. Uber drivers have told stories about some of the freaky passengers they have picked up, but these drivers will make you afraid to ever use a ride-sharing service again.

#2 Self Love

Some drivers just can't help but reveal a bit too much of themselves to their fares. But this is one case where that level of intimacy might've been welcome compared to what the woman experienced. In Kolkata, one woman's Uber driver couldn't help but share his affection for her; so on the way home, he whipped out his gear stick.

The driver proceeded to express his lust by jerking his gherkin for the rest of this poor woman's ride home. He was later arrested for ‘an obscene act'. The woman said in a statement that she was ‘satisfied' with the results but I'm betting the driver was less than satisfied that his lady-lust didn't appreciate his disco stick.

#3 The Kalamazoo Killer

We could have actually have filled this entire list with the shit this one guy did in one day.

In 2016, a man named Jason Dalton went on a shooting rampage while on his Uber route. Altogether, he shot and killed six people and injured two others; but in between attacks he still picked up fares and took them to their destinations without event.

#4 Mind Controlling App

Dalton said that the Uber app was controlling his body and mind and his car and told him who to shoot. It even convinced him put on a bullet proof vest for his rampage. He said that he would've gotten into a shoot-out with police too but the app told him not to.

Call me crazy but this plan sounds like it's thought of everything a little too rationally. Kind of cold and calculated, but it's not unlikely that technology just got the best of him.

#5 We'll Leave The Light On For Ya

In LA, after a night of heavy drinking, a 26-year-old woman passed out in her Uber. The thoughtful driver took special care to tuck her into bed. Except that it wasn't her bed; when she woke up, she was in a Motel 6 bed next to her shirtless driver, Frederick Dencer, with no memory of how she'd gotten there. The footage at the motel showed the woman being carried to the room by her Uber but the driver maintains that she was too drunk to tell him where she lived and so he took her to a motel to sleep it off.

Though if he was such a good Samaritan, why did he stay for the slumber party? Somehow Dencer wasn't charged with anything and there were no signs of abuse. I guess that means that asleep counts as consent to being kidnapped in some states. Huh, the more you know.

#6 Hammer Time

One Uber rider made the unfortunate mistake of questioning the chosen route of his driver. After picking up a group of friends from a bar at 2am, Patrick Karajah and one of the male passengers got into a fight about the route he was taking, which made the driver, Roberto Chicas angry.

#7 It's All Fun & Games

Roberto Chicas took the disagreement all very personally and he pulled over and told Patrick and his friends to get out. Sure, slightly annoying but then the driver went full psycho and attacked Patrick with a hammer. Karajah ended up with a fractured skull and had to have facial reconstructive surgery. The Uber driver was charged with simple assault and battery.

Patrick eventually got a refund and hopefully Uber paid for some of his medical bills seeing as how he almost lost an eye. And you know what they say, it's all fun and games until your Uber driver yells out, "stop, Hammer Time."

#8 Inefficient Rape

What should have been a short trip home ended up being quite the tumultuous detour for one Uber customer. On a ride home one night, her Uber driver took her on a little detour of about 20 miles. Maybe his GPS malfunctioned, you say, well it gets slightly more sinister: he drove her to an empty lot and locked the car doors, Ted Bundy-style. It wasn't until she started yelling at him that the driver finally caved and took her home.

To the temporary kidnapping of a customer Uber responded by apologizing for her driver's "inefficient route" and giving her a partial refund. What a relief, I'm sure the victim replied; "thanks guys, that driver's route almost landed me in Rape-city."

#9 Driver Failure

In 2013, one Uber driver hit a woman and her two children with his car as they were crossing the street. The guy was using his Uber app and struck the woman, killing her six-year-old daughter. He was charged with vehicular manslaughter but it was the company's response that left an even worse taste in people's mouths. It turned out they had a history of shitty driving; with a reckless driving conviction under his belt for driving into oncoming traffic with his wife and child in the car.

Uber said it wasn't their fault since he hadn't picked up a fare yet.

#10 Background Fail

In New Delhi, they've actually banned Uber-style apps all because of this incident.

In 2014, when a woman was sexually assaulted by her Uber driver, there was an outpouring of outrage from the public and questions over the safety of the ride-sharing service. Then it came out that that the driver was out on bail for another different sexual assault.

It turned out that in India when you signed up to be an Uber driver you just had to show your driver's license and car registration. So without any background checks, they could've been sending Prince Charming to your door, or John Wayne Gacy. Thankfully the driver got life in prison.