Guys, please give me your thoughts about this situation and on what to do next time incase this happens again :
Here goes my story :
About 3 or 4 months back at around 1 am, i got a Ping, went to pick up the pax, and got this dude standing infront of his house . He didnt get into the car, but rather gave me a package in 2 huge brown envelops (one had this pungent weed smell, very very toxic, and from the feel of the envelop, it was weed. in the second one, the feeling of the envelop was like powder inside, so i dont know what that might have been. i dont do drugs so i couldnt tell. but i know of weed bcoz its a plant. Lol )
So he told me he cannot get in the car bcoz he has an infant to look after, but i should take the two envelops to the destination address that was on the uber app. then he added that he will be monitoring my progress on his phone, to see if i will make any unnecessary stops. Finally he was like "you will find so and so dressed in such and such, with bla bla looks, give these two parcels to him. he knows you are coming. "
This really scared the hell out of me , coz now here I was thinking to myself:
1. what if i accidentally got pulled over by a cruiser while having these uber parcels??? i'll be toast !
2. if i report it as a suspicious uber request and alert the cops, what will happen to me? the guy has my pic, knows my legal name, car registration and model, and the worst of it all, my phone number.
3. if i refuse to take the parcel, will he come after me on a later date ?
i decided to go with option 3. Lucky enough, i have a kill switch that i installed , that shuts the car off. its right underneath my steering but somewhat concealed. and with that switch on, the car will never start. So i pulled the switch and the car turned off after 2 sec, tried restarting the car while this cat was standing right there, but nothing. he was so mad, and said he will file a complaint at uber , that my car bla bla bla. honestly i cared less..
so he cancelled the ride and i put my car on neutral, pushed it away slowly to a distance of about 50 metres away from his vicinity, turned off the kill switch , turned off my uber app, and sped towards my home like a runaway convict
For about 2 weeks after that, i never went online, and even now, i do uber with some fear in me,
Any of you folks had such an encounter ? and what would you advice next time. ?
thanks y'all
Here goes my story :
About 3 or 4 months back at around 1 am, i got a Ping, went to pick up the pax, and got this dude standing infront of his house . He didnt get into the car, but rather gave me a package in 2 huge brown envelops (one had this pungent weed smell, very very toxic, and from the feel of the envelop, it was weed. in the second one, the feeling of the envelop was like powder inside, so i dont know what that might have been. i dont do drugs so i couldnt tell. but i know of weed bcoz its a plant. Lol )
So he told me he cannot get in the car bcoz he has an infant to look after, but i should take the two envelops to the destination address that was on the uber app. then he added that he will be monitoring my progress on his phone, to see if i will make any unnecessary stops. Finally he was like "you will find so and so dressed in such and such, with bla bla looks, give these two parcels to him. he knows you are coming. "
This really scared the hell out of me , coz now here I was thinking to myself:
1. what if i accidentally got pulled over by a cruiser while having these uber parcels??? i'll be toast !
2. if i report it as a suspicious uber request and alert the cops, what will happen to me? the guy has my pic, knows my legal name, car registration and model, and the worst of it all, my phone number.
3. if i refuse to take the parcel, will he come after me on a later date ?
i decided to go with option 3. Lucky enough, i have a kill switch that i installed , that shuts the car off. its right underneath my steering but somewhat concealed. and with that switch on, the car will never start. So i pulled the switch and the car turned off after 2 sec, tried restarting the car while this cat was standing right there, but nothing. he was so mad, and said he will file a complaint at uber , that my car bla bla bla. honestly i cared less..
so he cancelled the ride and i put my car on neutral, pushed it away slowly to a distance of about 50 metres away from his vicinity, turned off the kill switch , turned off my uber app, and sped towards my home like a runaway convict
For about 2 weeks after that, i never went online, and even now, i do uber with some fear in me,
Any of you folks had such an encounter ? and what would you advice next time. ?
thanks y'all