It's safer to be an airport Uber driver since your passengers went thru TSA before getting in, amirite?

Or are you picking up the pissed off people who got turned away by tsa?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

With their assorted liquids and nail clippers

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Or kicked off the flight for starting a fight. If you have the balls to start a fight on an airplane or definitely fighting in an Uber

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I don't think those people leave their flight with an Uber.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Usually inn the back of a squad car

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I mean, in a city-funded Uber of sorts

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Look out, hes got toothpaste! Freeze, Terrorist!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Or maybe they learned to keester like I have. Can almost do an entire AR-15.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Impressive and functional!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The easy part is getting it in. The hard part is the gun's outer casing.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

If you put it in the right way, only the barrel needs to come out. And the right muscle strain.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Tsa hack, take a bunch of any liquid you want in small containers. Bring large empty container. Boom you hacked the tsa.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Also you can fly with all kinds of weapons if they are in your checked luggage

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Oh I know.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

> The terrorists know their bags are gonna be searched so now they're leaving their bombs at home. \- George Carlin

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I am a part time (I'd call it opportunistic) uber driver who lives near a major airport. Regardless of flight delays, cancellations, etc that make riders cranky, a good conversation helps out a ton. Most people are just angry at the airline regardless of weather cancellations. Now, driving in the same middle class town at 12am to 2am when drunk people are going home: arguments in the car, people smelling like smoke or weed stinking up my leather, prostitutes smelling like week old crawfish needing a ride from the hotel back home. Yeah. I take the airport rides

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Hookers and crawfish. Two of my favorite things.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Big ol' gumbo stew

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Today I woke up in Louisville and was supposed to fly home to Wisconsin via Detroit. That got cancelled, and I was given a flight through Atlanta that was supposed to have a six hour layover. When I landed in Atlanta, my flight home was canceled. The next available flight was Friday night (two days later). My boss told me to get a one way car and drive home. The airport had no cars, so I had to take a $70 Uber to downtown Atlanta at 5 PM to pick one up. That Uber driver was the coolest dude who listened to me talk about my day with interest and I was in a way better mood by the time I got to my rental car. I tipped him 25%.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Isnt it legal and common to just put weapons on your luggage? Doesnt sound safer to me

by Anonymous 1 year ago

What kind of lunatic takes a flight with the intention of robbing an uber driver upon arrival? Ofc it's safer than taking random rides in the middle of the city.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I dont mean that. I mean they are just as likely to have access to a weapon as anyone else

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's safer for a couple reasons: The weapons are not accessible from the passenger section. The weapons are not loaded.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Oh i didnt realize the uber driver flies the plane. My bad

by Anonymous 1 year ago

But you can fly with ammo

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This is true.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

But you're dealing with people who just got off a flight and very likely had a horrible layover to boot. They're all ready to snap.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You're so fed up by that point you'll pay whatever to get to your destination/hotel so there's that

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Airlines constantly dral with badly behaved antisocial violent drunks while ON the flight, and they presumably passed through security before boarding. So, bring an Uber driver at an airport is no safer. Anybody can be at an airport not just passengers. A violent ex stalking their flight attendant former spouse can go to an airport, get pissed off they couldn't find them, and be just as pissed , armed and violent on an Uber ride home.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That would require the TSA to have had an effect beyond safety theatre.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Security theater does have an effect.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Fr, it's like people forget there hasn't been a single attempted hijacking of a large commercial plane since 9/11...

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Weapons just go in checked luggage. The only safer travelers are those with only carry ons.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

lol you're assuming TSA is anything more than useless security theater

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I've had the same travel backpack for about 3 years and I never realized I kept a pocket knife in there. During those 3 years, I've probably been on 6+ domestic flights and never got caught. I finally got caught at some random airport in the Philippines.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I had a pair of really sharp haircutting scissors in my toiletries bag that i carried for years. I like them because i can touch up my hair quickly without having to use electricity (sometimes i travel to remote places that have dodgy power outages). Like really long blades on them, too, these can lethally stab someone no problem (before you ask, no, i never stabbed anyone nor have i tried). And yet, they gave me so much trouble with a small nail clipper that was in my jacket's pocket because the 1" nail file on it "looked like a knife"... I try to explain that it's a nail file, it's not supposed to be sharp because if it was, it would cut me every time i use it (and it was also visibly blunt all around). They made me toss it in a bin. I bet those security cosplayers felt so proud.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Nah... they actually do encourage most people to leave their pocketknives at home to avoid the cost of having to ditch them in line.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Then you realize the TSA is useless and routinely fails over 85% of their audits...

by Anonymous 1 year ago

TSA kind of worthless. They fail like 90% of the time if I recall.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Except for the very small problem that it's actually very easy to fly with firearms. I do it frequently.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Reminds me of Chris rock (I think) talking about nightclubs with metal detectors not being safer, cuz every [brotha] outside know you ain't got a gun.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Not necessarily. In lax you can take a shuttle from bus to airport to connect to another bus.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Why would they take an Uber then?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

To kidnap an Uber driver

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Maybe they want to go and not walk. I do think I'm general this is probably accurate and there is a lot of security

by Anonymous 1 year ago

A lot of people can hang out in an airport and not even have business or flight there.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Don't you get searched every time you enter an airport?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yeah but you don't always need a weapon to hurt someone.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Ah, it's like "check out my guns" scenario, and by guns, I mean my biceps

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Knowing what people have been able to get on board, accidentally and to test the employees, makes me doubt this a bit.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Even if you're close to the airport, you never know where passenger will be when they request it in the app

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You mean the same TSA that fails to find drugs, guns, and explosives about 80% of the time on their controlled tests?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

So you're saying there's money to be made selling weapons to my Uber passengers?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Commercial Aviation professional here. It's a big assumption that TSA actually has much of a measurable impact oh safety.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You realise that TSA is pure theatre and fails to find nine out of ten loaded guns taken onto aircraft.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

FYI You can transport guns in checked baggage on almost all airlines (with restrictions and processes that vary per airline).

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The TSA has never prevented a single terrorist attack in their whole history of existing.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Dont tell gun owners that, you might trigger them with gun control.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

but security doesn't check people leaving... a potentially bad actor could just as easily acquire a weapon from another bad actor between leaving the airport "secure area" and your vehicle

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There's nobody more violent than a jet lagged passenger after a terrible flight

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Or more dangerous because you don't know what the taxi mafia has waiting for you

by Anonymous 1 year ago

As a rideshare driver, my concern isn't people with weapons, liquids over 5 ounces, and razors. Creepy, inappropriate, and angry passengers are the problem.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

A...a taxi? Ubers can't really wait at the same places taxis can.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think Uber has a thing now where you can pre-order one at the time your flight gets in.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yeah but they also just got off a plane.. so, basically the least pleasant people to interact with.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Depends. If they're the colour that get "randomly selected" then yeah. If they're white though then the risk is probably the same lol.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Safe from getting shot, maybe, but you're far more likely to contract a contagious disease considering people can be coming from anywhere. Disease kills far more people than bullets, even in the US where we have state funded fascist murder squads pulling people over for no reasons.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yeah but now they're homicidal, and anything in the right (wrong?) circumstances can be a weapon.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The real reason has nothing to do with TSA: Most criminals are poor (desperate for money, willing to commit violence) and there aren't that many poor people at airports. Simple.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I mean I could easily go to an airport with a loaded gun, go to arrivals, and then call an uber.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Depending on which independent test you source the TSA miss something like 85% of firearms. It's pretend security with overt theatrics for the most exceptionally stupid Americans to feel safe.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I was under the impression you can't be selective of your Ubering, any request from your city will come in?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Most Uber drivers at the airport spend their time in the airport queue to escape their wives, you get one ride every hour for 20 bucks if you're lucky. Did Uber for a while trust me it's not worth it now.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

No they went through TSA, then exited the "secure area" prior to reaching baggage claim and getting in your Uber. Anyone can be walking around there, arming your next passenger.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Well… except for the jag-offs who were pissed they had to check their gun because, ya know "muh freedumbs", then are suddenly reunited with their salve of inadequacy, and BOOM suddenly a non-white in a BMW is supposedly to schlep him to his Motel 6.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Assuming you're only ubering people who have been through TSA, having come off a plane. What about ubering people to the airport (not having been through TSA yet), people leaving who couldn't get past TSA?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Safer in a sense where you won't be robbed with a deadly weapon like a gun or knife. Still plenty of unhinged or unstable passengers at the airport ready to make someone's life miserable over anything.

by Anonymous 1 year ago