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March 11, 2021, 9:44 am
A woman who assaulted her Uber driver took to Instagram Live to defend her actions after footage of the incident went viral.
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The original video showed three women sitting in the backseat of an Uber. One rips off her mask and starts coughing on the driver. She then tries to steal his phone, rips his mask off, and continues screaming at him as he repeatedly asks them to get out of the car.
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The footage sparked outrage about what rideshare drivers have to deal with, particularly in the middle of the pandemic, as the altercation was reportedly about the passengers not wanting to wear masks in the vehicle, against Uber policy.
But the aggressive passenger thinks she was in the right.
@keepinupwforeign went live on Instagram after the original video went viral, insisting that the Uber driver is lucky she didn’t do worse.
“My boyfriend taught me…don’t let nobody play with you. Smack the f—k out them,” she said. “And he’s lucky as hell I ain’t have nothing on me.”
She also claimed that 75% of people she knows “would’ve smacked the s—t out of him or done some crazy ass off-the-wall s—t.”
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The woman, who has since been banned from Uber, did admit that coughing in the driver’s face was wrong, but believes the whole thing “could have been avoided” if the driver took them to their destination rather than asking them to leave the car if they wouldn’t abide by the mask policies put in place by Uber.
Another clip from the woman’s Live features her talking to the camera in her bra and underwear, still ranting about exactly the same thing.
“Y’all live in some fairytale internet ass land because in real life, we don’t play that s—t,” she says, seemingly referring to the Uber driver not letting the passengers walk all over him in the middle of a pandemic.
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Adding to the absurdity of the whole situation, she also at one point claimed to prefer Lyft to Uber anyway — and as soon as Lyft caught wind of the situation, they made sure to clarify that she had been preemptively banned from their service as well.
“Driving in a pandemic is not easy,” the company tweeted. “Please wear a mask, respect one another, and be a good person.”
*First Published: March 11, 2021, 9:44 am
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