Unmarked NYPD Officer Pulls Over Uber Driver And Screams "I Don't Know What Fucking Planet You Think You're On Right Now"
Argument starts in the beginning, then resumes at 1:53
Gothamist – Our account begins in medias res, with an NYPD officer issuing a directive at an Uber driver through the driver’s side window: “Stop it with your mouth, stop it with your, ‘For what sir? For what sir?’ Stop it with that bullshit, and realize the three vehicle and traffic law violations you committed.” It’s unclear what violations the driver committed on the West Side Highway yesterday. According to the YouTube description, the officer was attempting to park his unmarked vehicle without using his blinker and the driver let him know. “When you’re driving up my ass, when I’m trying to park the car, and then you have to do something with your hands,” the officer in a collared shirt and tie explains. “People are allowed to park their cars on the side of the street without your interference and then you’re opinion about what’s going on. Especially when the person you do it to are the police!”
“You picked the wrong guy to honk at, obviously,” one of the fares tells the driver after the officer slams the door.
The officer forgoes the whole “drive safe” lecture usually appended to the end of such interactions in favor of teaching the driver a different sort of “lesson.”
Cop: How long have you been in this country?Driver: Almost two years.
Cop: I got news for you and use this lesson, remember this in the future: don’t ever do that again. The only reason you’re not in handcuffs going to jail and getting summonses in the precinct is because I have things to do, that’s the only reason that’s not happening, because this isn’t important enough for me. You’re not important enough.
Gotta love this cop saying this Uber driver isn’t important enough for him to take any time to deal with, yet he spends like 5 minutes arguing and scolding him and flexing his police muscles. I gotta say it was hysterical when the Uber driver kept interrupting him literally every time he opened his mouth. Bro just stop saying “OK sir” and let the dude finish.
I’m a little torn here because obviously the cop is a power hungry maniac cop with some sort of complex, but Uber drivers are getting a little too big for their britches these days too. They act like they run the world. Which, in their defense, they sort of do. Uber is probably the greatest invention of the past, oh, I dunno, 100 years or so. But half the time they never arrive where they’re supposed to and then I gotta talk to them on the phone and explain how to get there. Then they try to take their own routes and stuff. Its like bro just put the address in the Google Maps like the rest of the world and follow what the GPS machine tells you to do. But like I said I can’t knock them too much. I hop in the car and I get some gum and a phone charge and get dropped right off where I need to be and dont have to even take out my wallet. They can be annoying assholes if they want as long as that keeps happening.