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UglyGreed

(7,661 posts)
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 05:52 AM Nov 2014

Uber driver told cancer patient she deserves to be sick after canceling ride

Alexandra Craigle, 25, had just finished radiation treatment at a New York City cancer center when she was blasted with phone calls, text messages and a voice mail by a since fired Uber driver who called her an animal for canceling her ride. Craigle has defended that she canceled her reservation one minute after making it.

An Uber driver has been fired after harassing a cancer patient who says she was called an animal who deserves to be sick — all for canceling her car reservation.

Alexandra Craigle, 25, had just finished radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan last week when on a whim she canceled her Uber pick-up just a minute after reserving it and hopped in a taxi instead.

The resulting punishment would be three phone calls, text messages and an irate voice mail from her ditched driver, she said.

"You are not human…" one of three angry text messages blasted to her phone on Nov. 10 read.

Craigle, who has been battling lymphoma since 2012, defended to the Daily News that she canceled the pick-up within Uber's five-minute grace period.


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uber-driver-told-cancer-patient-deserves-patient-article-1.2015510

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Uber driver told cancer patient she deserves to be sick after canceling ride (Original Post) UglyGreed Nov 2014 OP
That driver needs psychiatric help. Completely absurd reaction. nt WhiteAndNerdy Nov 2014 #1
I agree UglyGreed Nov 2014 #4
It must have been a slow news day for the NY Daily News. rudolph the red Nov 2014 #2
What does that have to do UglyGreed Nov 2014 #3
It is so lame to ignore UglyGreed Nov 2014 #5

UglyGreed

(7,661 posts)
3. What does that have to do
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 06:39 AM
Nov 2014

with the treatment this woman received??? This is the type of stories we need to expose not ridicule. SMH!!!

UglyGreed

(7,661 posts)
5. It is so lame to ignore
Wed Nov 19, 2014, 06:50 AM
Nov 2014

the story and just attack the source. Sometime even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then. Grow up people.

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