Mom/rapper Arrested For Child Desertion (in A Lyft/uber!)

How young is too young to take rideshare solo (Uber/Lyft)?

  • <18 (follow the law!)

  • <17

  • <15-16

  • <13-14

  • <12

  • <8-11

  • <5

  • Toddlers (<4)

  • At Parent’s Discretion

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kxlot79

Kitchen Mixtress
You might be shocked how many people just take it for granted that if an Uber is safe enough for an adult, it’s safe enough for a child. People are INCREDIBLY trusting. I thought there must be special about me, but I guess it’s the trust thing or they’re idiotic.
There’s a lot of liability a driver would take on by even completing a trip of a minor.
So yeah, police drop off was the only other safe thing to do.
My heart feels like taking the child to the police was the wrong thing, but I understand why he did it.
 

kxlot79

Kitchen Mixtress
Very good point! Japan, in particular, is very strict with kiddie crime. Versus in the US (where this happened) there’s this lowkey agenda to legitimize statutory rape— with the slaps on the wrist for the sexually predatory criminals and the sexual abuses of minors in positions of authority.

I would say a big difference between a school bus (or city bus for that matter) is that there are other passengers who can potentially be witnesses. School buses usually have bus monitors/attendants as well. So it wouldn’t be the misconduct of just one adult but two.
I’d also like to believe schools vet their drivers a little more critically than Uber but there aren’t any national standards on that so...

we aren’t the kind of society that looks out for children and the vetting process for drivers is sketchy.

Still, putting a kid in an Uber isn’t that much different than putting him on the school bus. A stranger is driving the kid somewhere.
 

kxlot79

Kitchen Mixtress
My only quibble with telling someone you have a legitimate concern of negligence is that they— in this case, the rapper— would just cancel the current Uber and take their chances with a different one.
For myself, I used to reason: Better me who I know has no ill intentions towards the minor than some creep who might— and God forbid I see the minor on the news because of what some creepy Uber driver did to him/her.
I think I the driver was shady. He could have said “I’d have to call the police.” I’m assuming words were exchanged and the driver got offended and said “he’d show her.” I smell a touch of racism. But she didn’t help her situation and lost her gamble. She is the idiot in the end.
 

naturalgyrl5199

Well-Known Member
My only quibble with telling someone you have a legitimate concern of negligence is that they— in this case, the rapper— would just cancel the current Uber and take their chances with a different one.
For myself, I used to reason: Better me who I know has no ill intentions towards the minor than some creep who might— and God forbid I see the minor on the news because of what some creepy Uber driver did to him/her.
Which is why the mom is an idiot if that's her rationale. Cause if one employee tells you its company policy but you're still trying to have your way, then yeah you just trying to get over, then why should the employee stretch their neck out for someone who doesn't care if the rules are broken....... I don't see why (while well intentioned) an UBER driver has to take on a huge liability and responsibility for transporting such a young child. Furthermore, say the Uber driver DID transport said child---and something happened to the child anyways after drop off? The Uber driver, the Uber company and the mother would be in deep poop.
 

Guapa1

Well-Known Member
I think leaving the child in the car after the driver said no was wrong.
I had to look after a 5 year old who was flying unaccompanied. The parents were in first class. When the child was sick and crying, I went to the parents and they asked what I'd do if they weren't there and I was like Daaaam! smhid
 

kxlot79

Kitchen Mixtress
Wait. I’m confused. The parents flew in 1st class and put their kid in coach? Then had you take care of the kid?
Well... did they pay extra for an “unaccompanied minor” ticket?:look:

I had to look after a 5 year old who was flying unaccompanied. The parents were in first class. When the child was sick and crying, I went to the parents and they asked what I'd do if they weren't there and I was like Daaaam!
 

Guapa1

Well-Known Member
Wait. I’m confused. The parents flew in 1st class and put their kid in coach? Then had you take care of the kid?
Well... did they pay extra for an “unaccompanied minor” ticket?:look:

Yes, kids in coach and parents up front used to happen a lot. The airline I worked for have stopped it now.

The parents paid extra, so I'm not judging them for that. But you gonna have your child vomiting and crying and not want to comfort them?
 

nysister

Well-Known Member
I would have done what the driver did. No way am I getting into an altercation with a hoodrat that doesn't even care about her offspring. That says everything about her.

I'm not arguing. I'm not waiting at her door to be shot. I'm not calling the police to hang around and be shot. None of that.

Drop child at police, go on my merry way.
 
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