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UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House

posted by takyon on Sunday April 05 2015, @01:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the proactive-sharing-economy dept.

darkfeline writes in with yet another incident that the $41-billion-valued Uber would like to forget.

Gerald Montgomery, a 51-year-old UberX driver, has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree burglary. He was reportedly trying to break into the Denver home of a woman he had just driven to Denver International Airport, and was found carrying "burglar tools". Uber says that Montgomery had passed all background checks, and the man had no criminal history in Colorado according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records. Montgomery has been "deactivated" from the UberX platform and the Denver victim's fare was refunded.

The UberX platform requires drivers to operate their own vehicles and is less regulated than taxi services. Rides are covered by commercial insurance. An investigation [autoplay video] by NBC Los Angeles last year found that Uber has employed "screened" drivers with long-term felony records.

The company continues to attract unwanted attention around the globe; Uber's headquarters in Amsterdam has been raided twice this week, and an Uber employee has been arrested for obstructing the investigation. The investigators were looking for evidence that the company is continuing to operate UberPop, an urban ridesharing service deemed illegal by a Dutch court.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2015, @03:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2015, @03:03PM (#166669)

    so a burglar gets away with 25 burglaries, for which he is never charged. Number 26 catches him on video, someone identifies him, and he's picked up. So, maybe he is less stupid than the burglar who gets caught the first time, but he is still pretty damned dumb.

    Nothing in your manufactured example suggests the man with a 96% success rate is "pretty damned dumb."

    Which gets to the unstated point of my previous post - your spin on events is all mood affiliation. It makes you feel good to believe that "bad" people are also dumb people.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2015, @04:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2015, @04:10PM (#166683)

    Nothing in your manufactured example suggests the man with a 96% success rate is "pretty damned dumb."

    Because if he was smart, he would've taken into account the possibility of cameras.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2015, @04:27PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 05 2015, @04:27PM (#166688)

      or just skip the 26th time and go straight to the 27th.