Here's why you always check your Uber driver's rating. This dude rented a car so he could drive Uber, stopped making payments on the vehicle, and then let it idle for three straight weeks, knowing the rental company would deactivate the car once it turned off.
Three weeks!
He let the car idle for three weeks!
A Florida man working as an Uber driver kept his rented vehicle running for three weeks after he stopped making payments on it, knowing that the SUV would not restart if he turned the engine off…
Deputies said that Mills, who rented the vehicle in order to work as an Uber driver, had stopped making payments on it and refused to take calls from the Orange County company he contracted with…
The rental company had installed devices in its vehicles that could be remotely activated to stop the car from restarting if a renter stopped making payments.
Well, you can't keep the car from restarting if it's idling for three weeks, so, checkmate, right?
Not so fast.
Elijah Mills was transporting a British couple one night as their trusted Uber driver when all of the sudden four police cars boxed in the Chevy Equinox. The game was over, the Equinox turned off, and Mills was going to jail.
Can you imagine this Uber ride?!?
Police gave those Brits, who believe it or not were in town to get married, a nice little ride home.
(No word as to whether the cruiser wore one of those "just married" banners or not.)
One of the other cruisers took Mills downtown.
"You can't believe this," [Sheriff] Judd said. "He left the car running for three weeks. Do you know why? If he turned it off, it wouldn't crank back up."
"So he left the car running -- did you hear what I said?" Judd said. "Now someone's gonna buy that rental car one day and have no idea it idled for three weeks."
Better check the Carfax!
Here's Polk County's Facebook post; they seem to have a good time with these:
And why not give you their YouTube vid while we're at it:
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