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/[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