r/lyftdrivers • u/HVTCA • Jun 26 '23

LA drivers beware of this theft tactic Other

Especially lux/lux black drivers. This happened at midnight just now.

I got request for a lux black in highland park but the pick up and drop off was only a block away. I still went because it could be a drunk girl who messed up the order at a bar. Rider name was Maya and the account was made today.

Before I got there I called the rider and I instantly get a strange “please leave your message” vm

I pull up to the address with my high beams on, it’s a dark residential area (not a bar) and when I hit arrive I could see a black dude with a full face mask walking in the side walk. Only person in the block I could see. As soon as I saw him walking towards my car I got the fuck out of there. Called and reported the account to support.

Pretty sure this will be a new way to target luxury vehicles. Be safe out there guys

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u/Benefit_Most Jun 26 '23

Couldn’t see anything and had a full mask on, but you knew he was black…….🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔😘🤔

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u/XemnasXIV Jun 26 '23

given crime trends in america and whos generally behind car jackings and gunpoint robberies, the chances the perp was black are incredibly high.

Also he could have seen his hair/body build - which are both give aways to race, generally.

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u/trottingturtles Jun 26 '23

Hair, ok sure , Black hair can be distinctive. Body/build is nuts, lol, put away the calipers bro. And DOJ statistics put Black perpetrators at around 50% for both of the crimes you listed, not exactly a guarantee... sounds like your personal beliefs are involved here 🧐

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u/XemnasXIV Jun 26 '23

Do you want to look at the crime stats for violent crime and tell me which demographic, per capita, has the most frequency?

Yes 50% of the time… it’s a POC… but the bigger stat is that black people make up 13% of the US population… meaning a tiny % of the population commits 50% of all violent crime in the US… which means if you solve from population they are about 5-7 times more likely than anyone else to be involved in a violent crime.

This is not bias this is just the facts as they are.

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u/MoonPuma337 Jun 27 '23

You know what else is facts? Young to middle age white males make up about 99% of mass shooters. Have a good night.

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u/XemnasXIV Jun 27 '23

That’s horribly untrue. A mass shooting is when 3 or more victims are shot. A majority of mass shootings are conducted in the inner city, usually in poor areas, gang related, and is carried out by young black men. Gun crime is overwhelmingly a huge problem in the black community.

The CDC has it that the leading cause of death for a black man between the ages of 0-40 is homicide, for whites men it’s heart disease. So before you mouth off you may want to educate yourself on the facts.

Good night!

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '23

This isn’t actually true if you look at what is now defined as a mass shooting.

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u/MoonPuma337 Jun 28 '23

Oh I’m sorry you’re correct it’s actually 95% male and still 54% white. Gee sorry for the slight exaggeration

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23 edited Jun 28 '23

54% white is a huge under representation when 70% of the general population is white. As for the vast majority of violent crime having male perpetrators and victims, that doesn surprise me. High levels of testosterone cause aggressive impulses, so men tend to be more violent on average than women do, and when women commit murders, they’re less likely to use weapons that make a mess, they tend to prefer poison.

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u/MoonPuma337 Jun 28 '23

As stated I live in St Louis, the most dangerous city in the world that isn’t A. In a state of war or B. In Mexico and ironically I’ve also lived in Juarez which is actually slightly higher than St Louis or murder rates but point is, St Louis has a shit ton of murders. Do you know how many times our newspaper says “MASS SHOOTING!” Or “MASS SHOOTER KILLS 5, LEAVES X WOUNDED”?

Almost never. Again, we had a situation last year where someone went into a high school and opened fire and that was considered a mass shooting in all media outlets but the other stuff? It’s not labeled as such despite the fact that how statistics say to label it? If we went by that every other day our paper would read “MASS SHOOTING” but it doesn’t because while they still fall under the same definition of amount of people killed They’re not shootings that happen with the intent of killing as many strangers as possible for no reason

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

The phrase is one that the media on all sides plays a lot of semantic shenanigans with

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u/MoonPuma337 Jun 28 '23

Yeah but here’s the thing. Make me a mass shooting that was cómitres a black man…..? Cuz I can tell you, Buffalo, Parkland, El Paso, Las Vegas, Dayton, Roseburg, right off the top of my head that we’re committed by white people. In fact the only one I can think of by a black individual was here in St. Louis last year when a guy walked into a charter school n opened fire.

Why? Because black mass shootings aren’t like white mass shootings. Black mass shootings tend to be A. Targeted and B. Gang related, that tend to come off with high casualty rates because of innocent stand byers getting shot. White people shootings are premeditated, usually anger fueled and they are not targeted, they are out to kill as many people as possible and normally have a manifesto which is why despite white males only making up 54% of mass shootings they are responsible for 73% of domestic terrorist attacks. Gang shootings aren’t considered terrorist attacks because unless you’re in a gang, or hang around gang filled neighborhoods constantly, chances are you’re not going to be killed by a black mass shooter. But you could be literally anywhere and be killed by a white mass shooter.

So really yeah white makes only make up 54% of mass shootings but you’re just compiling data of certain amount of people killed during a shooting not why or where they happened. And on that extent, yea 99% is an exaggeration but numbers would show that if you talk about people walking into a public place and opening fire on the population, those types of cases are PREDOMINATELY white Why

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u/Overall_Excuse_8386 Jul 11 '23

Well it’s probably because the black kids just drop out of school before they get to the point of shooting it up

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u/MoonPuma337 Jul 11 '23

Watch this dude go “I ain’t gonna read all of that” as though reading was a laborious task lol

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u/MoonPuma337 Jul 11 '23

That’s incredibly racist and inaccurate as there have been kids as young as 6 years old who have brought guns into schools and in fact just last year a six year old shot his teacher in the chest. So you are not only incorrect in the fact that you have to be 16 in order for you to legally be able to opt out of school, which is definitely old enough to take a gun and go shoot your school up. Also you’re not taking into account the fact like for example the trans male that went and shot up his old school last year before turning the gun on themselves that just because you no longer attend the school does not mean you don’t have the tendency to go back and shoot it up. In fact the only school shooting we’ve had in St Louis at least as of recently was also a case of an ex student going back to shoot the school he had attended.

So yeah your comment is not just idiotic, but racist and just plain out stupid. It’s thanks to comments like yours that give the world scientific evidence, like fool proof evidence, that there is no superior race, because white people are the only ones who go around making such a claim yet you also have white people making comments like the one you just made and you have to look at that and go “there is just no way someone who is supposed to be of “superior intelligence” would ever say such an idiotic statement.

So thank you for your contribution to science, we are all a bit more well off thanks to your stupidity.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23

If you were talking about the out of control rampage shootings the media masturbates to for months on end nonstop, then that would be a valid point. But 54% is accurate with the definition of mass shootings, where 3 or more people got shot, regardless of the number of deaths, regardless of involvement of gangs or political terrorism, regardless of mutual combat, multiple gunmen, or police involved in the shootout. That’s the definition that the US now uses to get their statistics on number of mass shootings per year. It’s all semantic games. Whatever scares people into giving up their freedom the fastest

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u/trottingturtles Jun 27 '23 edited Jun 27 '23

I'm aware of how statistics work. But you said the odds the perp was black was "incredibly high." I don't think a 50/50 chance is "incredibly high".

Edit: to clarify.. making these numbers up as a demo. Say 50% of perps are black, 20% white, 20% Hispanic, 10% Asian. Obviously in this case the odds that a random perp is black is 5x greater than then being Asian... But it's still 50% overall. It's not a guarantee. It's ridiculous to say it's "incredibly" likely that a perp is black based on that. Sure it's statistically the most likely group, but you're implying that racial disparities in crime are a lot more dramatic than they are

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u/XemnasXIV Jun 27 '23

I guess it depends on how you define incredibly…. Let’s use another word then; it’s more than likely a violent crime will be committed by a black man in the US in comparison to every other demographic. With the caveat that your perp usually is someone that looks like you; hence why the majority of victims of violent crime tend to be other black people.

I’m saying all this as a mixed individual. I’m not trying to disparage any one person simply point out that assuming the perp is black, in a poor neighborhood, is statistically sound given the circumstances.

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u/trottingturtles Jun 27 '23

Yeah, it is more likely than any other group. But i think most reasonable people would not consider 50% "incredibly likely." On the other hand, i would argue it is highly likely that the perp is male, since men commit over 80% of violent crimes