'Watching them scramble... was the most hilarious thing': Rideshare driver scares teenagers into fleeing her car

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 6, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

These teenagers thought they'd figured out a perfect way to get their whole group home for a cheap price. Teenagers don't usually have tons of money to spend—they usually only have their allowances, or maybe they have a little spending money if they've gotten a minimum wage job somewhere. The kids in u/SibunaSeph's story spent an afternoon at Walmart, and then had to figure out how to get home. Apparently no one's parents could give them a ride back from the store, because they ended up calling a rideshare driver to give them all a lift home. As teens are known to do, they don't really think through their actions. Instead, they just called a car for their whole entire group… and the driver wasn't about to be as lenient as they'd hoped. 

The driver of this car could've been a lot nicer to the teens, but instead, she chose to involve a local state trooper. The two of them tricked the kids, scaring them and possibly teaching them a lesson. If the teens didn't have enough money to get everyone home, though, the driver and state trooper were just making a bad situation even worse. 

Up next, these confounding courtroom arguments make for some hilarious stories, like one person whose "mother's lawyer argued… that I had to add my mother as a Facebook friend." 

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    6 people in a 4-DR Sedan? Nah... I posted this over on r/prorevenge but it got removed and someone suggested I tried posting it on here. For context, I'm a Lyft/Uber driver and last week I put the fear of God in some teens... And it felt - good-.
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    So Lyft/Uber does not allow drivers to pick up anyone under the age of 18 without a consenting adult present. Also, I have a 4-door sedan so obviously I can only seat 4 other people besides myself.
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    I pull up to a Wal*Mart last night and I see this group of six teens standing around outside the store and because there are six of them I start to drive past them. To my surprise they start to wave me down in my rear view mirror so I stop because maybe, just maybe, it's a group of friends waiting with other friends until the ride some of them are waiting on gets there.
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    The first girl gets to my car and I ask her when she opens the back door. "How many people?" "Oh, just four." So I turn around to wait patiently and then I hear it. The conversation of who is going to sit on whose lap in the backseat, and which person gets to be the lucky one who sits up front away from the other five. One of the other girls sits up front with me as a state trooper rolls by, but
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    hasn't shut the door yet when I ask -her-. "How many people are there?" "Like six, but there are two stops. One is just up the road and they'll get out, then the other one is just four of us." No. No no no no no no no.
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    I am not risking that many lives, or the legal issues that would come from it. I will never risk this, they should of had the person who requested this ride for them order an XL vehicle. "Sorry guys, I can not legally pick up more than four of you. I'm not risking the ticket."
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    Smart girl in the back suddenly pops up between the headrest. "How much is it? Like 50 dollars?" "More trouble than it's worth, not happening. I can either take four of you or you guys can cancel the ride."
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    At this point the people outside the car are arguing because "I told you after the last person we need a bigger one" and it was followed by someone else saying "Just have your sister cancel it and order us a new one. Third time's the charm."
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    After more discussion they finally all get out, all of them slamming the doors as hard as they can, and I drive away. As I'm about to leave the lot I see the state trooper from earlier sitting, possibly waiting for speeders, so I pull over so my driver's side window is lined up with theirs and I give him a smile and wave so he
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    (hopefully) worries less about a random car doing this in the middle of the night. When he rolls down his window I explain the kids to him and how they obviously don't get it so he tells me to drive over, let them get in, and he'll take care of it. This guy looks like a kid in a candy store.
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    So I go back around to the kids and roll down my window as smart walks up. girl from the backseat "Look, Lyft/Uber won't let me pick up more than four people, so I had to get you to cancel. Has someone ordered you guys another ride yet?"
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    "No...?" "Hop in, but you can't tell Lyft/Uber, okay?" These teens alllll get in the car. Only one, the girl up front with me, was smart enough to buckle up. I pull away from the curb and head in the direction of the parking lot exit when whoopwhoop*, lights flashing
    via u/SibunaSeph
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    behind me. Every teen in that gets wide-eyed and so quiet you could hear a pin drop. I'm doing my best to look scared out of my mind too. I pull into a parking space and here comes Mr. State Trooper. Chest puffed, shoulders squared, way more serious faced than the version of him I just spoke to a minute ago.
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    "Ma'am, do you know why I pulled you over?" While looking at him I motion quietly to the backseat, acting like I'm too afraid to talk. right. License and insurance, everyone but the driver get out of the car." Nobody moves. "I said everybody but the driver, out of the car, NOW!"
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    Watching them scramble the out of my car was the most hilarious thing, and it made it so hard to keep a straight face. I don't think the teens realized that I never gave him what he asked for because the minute they were out of the car he had them all sit on one of those curbs with the trees on it. To play along I sat there and listened to him ride them up one wall and down another about safety and laws of the road, though he did go easy
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    on front seat girl since she wore a seatbelt. The other five? All got tickets for not putting theirs on and a lecture about risking other people's livelihoods. Before I left them all there, I got a "stern talk" about risking young lives, and a quiet thank you for giving him something fun to do on such a boring night.
    via u/SibunaSeph
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    That was the -best-revenge against people giving me a headache by trying to overfill my car. Thank you anonymous state trooper for lending me a hand.
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