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SHAME ON YOU’ Uber accused of cashing in on bomb explosion by charging almost double to take terrified New Yorkers home


Passengers hit out at the taxi firm for hiking their prices in the hours following the blast in the Manhattan area of the city that killed one person and injured 24

TRAUMATISED families caught up in the New York bomb blast have accused Uber of cashing in on the tragedy by charging almost double to take them home.

Furious passengers have taken to social media to slam the taxi firm in the wake of the blast that killed one person and left 24 injured in the Manhattan area of the city.

COME ON @Uber ???? 1.8 surge pricing after explosion in #Chelsea? I'm disgusted. People are trying to get home safe. Shame on you #DeleteApp

— Jessica Keenan Wynn (@JessicaKWynn) September 18, 2016

Uber reportedly charged between 1.4 and 3 times the standard fare with one city worker saying he had to pay twice as much as usual.

Mortgage broker Nick Lalli said: “Just trying to get home from the city and Uber f****** doubled the surge price.”

Another Twitter user said: “My $11 usual ride home to Chelsea from Midtown Manhattan was $32 thanks to surge pricing from Uber because of the Chelsea explosion, thanks.”

source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1805286/u ... -589046900

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
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Iirc they did the same re the Paris atrocity

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if you cannot be yourself, then who can you be.

they always do

that company makes Bonny and clyde look like saints !

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Can't find any comment from the vastly overmanned Uber PR machine.

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IDFIMH

WHEN THERES A SHORTAGE THE PRICE GOES UP HENCE HARLEY STREET ................ITS CALLED CAPITALISM.................IT STINKS

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And when there's a shortage in North Korea, hundreds of thousands of the proletariat die of starvation!

Meanwhile, their fat dear leader gets fatter. Trotskyism at its finest.

ITS CALLED COMMUNISM, AND IT STINKS!!!!!

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STALINISM DEAR CHAP AS REPULSIVE AS CAPITALISM ....................STALIN WAS THE ASSOLE WHO HAD TROTSKY KILLED .................NOT YOUR STRONG POINT HISTORICAL FACTS EVIDENTLY ..................................STILL EX GROVELLING LICKSPITTLE COWARDLY MARINE PONCE HARDLY SURPRISING

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Good old Lev, so let's have a look,
Trotsky believed his country could achieve socialism only if the working classes around the world rose up as one to overthrow the ruling classes - the doctrine of "international socialism".
He believed the Soviet Union had become a dictatorship under Stalin and advocated more democracy in the one party state.
He was murdered by a Stalinist assassin, in Mexico, in 1940, where he was living in exile after being expelled from the Soviet Union.
Trotsky's killer embedded an ice axe in the revolutionary's head.
What has any of this got to do with 21st Century British politics?
Trotsky inspired followers around the world and they still survive to this day on the fringes of British politics.
They have never had much success in elections, seeming to spend more time fighting each other and splitting into rival factions with confusingly similar names than taking on the powers that be.
There is a poignant clip on you tube of actress Vanessa Redgrave, whose family were heavily involved with the Trotskyist Workers Revolutionary Party, defiantly lecturing her 1974 general election opponents on the urgent need for a socialist state, after gaining just 574 votes in Newham North East.
Oh and he was an Arsenal fan, still don't get why he would support a royalists Tory team? West Ham is the working class team, up the Hammers.

surely this automatically kicks in when its busy ? how is it anyone's fault?

there's suggestions drivers switch off simultaneously - creating a demand - then switch back on

ingenious really - I mean this stuff is apparently state of the art, yet simple drivers can manipulate the system - these guys need medals not our scorn

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George Carlin

Looking at the Uber drivers forum, it seems that drivers go towards a busy event in the expectation of getting the surge rate.

Which makes sense.

But not just for the drivers, but for punters as well.

I have no sympathy for punters that pay £100 + for a concert or show and then cry out when there is a premium on the taxi/PH.

There are always buses or other taxis or maybe drive yourself.

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IDFIMH

Not a trot meself despite the moniker the man for me was James Connolly a true socialist revolutionary.

Splits by the left have always been its downfall

As for the Arsenal its in the blood sunshine and factually the club originated from Unionised munitions workers.


for sure both clubs are full philthy Tory Vermin.

Man Sh!ty now Arabs City more like

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i never knew that tbh, quite clever

And of course could only be done by Drivers operating in UNISON .....................OOH FOOKIN COMMIES

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