Posted on 04/01/2015 10:17:31 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Ride sharing service Uber Technologies Inc. continues to hog bad publicity after an UberX driver allegedly drove a woman to the airport and then went back to break into her home.
A Denver homeowner found the driver allegedly trying to break into her home one afternoon. When questioned, he said he was a friend of her roommate.
The homeowner, Amy Kissinger, then called her roommate Natalie, who matched the description of the man to the driver who dropped her to the airport that morning. It was further confirmed after Natalie sent Kissinger a screenshot of the receipt from Uber that had the picture of the driver. However, by then he fled the scene.
Natalie then called the police, and the 51-year-old driver, Gerald Montgomery, was taken into custody several days later on Tuesday. Kissinger said the police had also found a lock picking device still on the back door.
According to Denver Police, Montgomery is being held on criminal attempted burglary charges. Meanwhile, Uber reportedly deactivated him as a partner with the Uber platform pending an investigation by the authorities. Montgomery is due in court on Friday.
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Ordinary cab drivers can do this, too. I expect Uber will start screening its drivers for criminal records.
The stupid uber driver forget to ask about roommates in his chit chat during the ride.
So, for how long are you going away? Have a pitbull, or any roommates???
All Uber ridesharing and livery partners must go through a rigorous background check. The three-step screening we’ve developed across the United States, which includes county, federal and multi-state checks, has set a new standard. These checks go back 7 years, the maximum allowable by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
http://blog.uber.com/driverscreening
I’ve been wondering how long it would be before something like this happened.
“Home burglary is not one of the crimes that would exclude them.”
Huh? Are you saying that if the Uber background sceening found “home burglary” they would accept him as a driver?
I think not. Maybe I’m wrong. I expect with this sort of screening, it is pretty basic, and many, many slip through cracks.
Cracks means multiple databases, perps using multiple indentities, arrested in multiple states, etc.
The link in post #5 gives the items they fail drivers, most are driving related. Burglary is not one of them.
That’s a nice place you have there. I hope you have a good security system during your trip. What? Nothing. That’s terrible.
Same thing obviously applies to cab drivers, SuperShuttle drivers, etc.
So it’s kind of stupid to refer it as if it’s somehow unique to Uber.
Much like people getting robbed after agreeing to buy something on Craigslist. Exactly the same thing could and did happen when people did similar things using classified ads in the paper.
But for some obscure reason people connect problems up with the internet even when there is no real connection.
You forgot your </sarc> tag.
The validity & efficacy of their so-called ‘background checks’ has yet to be proven.
Presser BS.
Not related to this event. It is from about a year ago.
Their prepared statements about their ‘background checks’ are all BS.
Cabbies come from the same pool.
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