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Lyft Bans Woman Following Video Of Her Coughing On Uber Driver

Lyft Bans Woman Following Video Of Her Coughing On Uber Driver

The woman claims that the driver was trying to drop them off 'in the middle of the hood and the freeway'

Rebecca Shepherd

Rebecca Shepherd

A woman who was filmed coughing on an Uber driver has said she won't use Uber in future and will only take Lyft taxis - however, Lyft has now rejected her custom. You can watch the now-viral footage of the original incident here:

Unfortunately for the unnamed lady, Lyft has tweeted to say it won't be accepting her custom in future.

In a tweet, Lyft posted: "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."

Nexar

Video footage emerged from the Uber driver, which seems to show the maskless woman arguing about where she and her friends are being dropped off.

It's claimed that, after he asked the three women to put masks on, one began to taunt him before she removed his mask and even coughed on him.

However, another recording - which appears to be from the Instagram account of one of the riders in the initial video - suggests the driver was attempting to drop off the trio 'in the middle of the hood and the freeway'.

She adds: "I'm not about to just get bulls*** for no reason he had up f***ed up and cropped the video."

Instagram

In another video, which appears to have been posted by one of the passengers, a woman says: "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."

She goes on to add: "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."

Then she goes on to say: "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."

In a statement to LADbible, a spokesperson for Lyft said: "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."

LADbible has contacted Uber for a comment and is waiting for a reply.

Featured Image Credit: Nexar

Topics: Viral, News, Uber