Girl Gets into Wrong Car (Thinks it's her Uber/Lyft), Kidnapped + Murdered

[grexly75]

I would not recommend setting off pepper spray inside a closed car.

Ahh k that bad, but would not know as here in Australia in most if not all states it is illegal to have such a thing for self protection..

[Ghostpanther]

Not to make light of this situation, but this reads really funny. You should only be drunk with a firearm during a home invasion.

I meant, if you are drunk and someone invades your home, go ahead and shoot their ass. Ideally, you should never be drunk and around loaded firearms anyway. It is asking for problems. But out in the public? It is a good way to loose a conceal carry license for sure. Guns and drinking to the point of being too intoxicated to drive legally, also applies to operation of any machinery or firearms.

[ButterBeast]

Haha likewise, thank god. Shame would have enjoyed it if she double tapped his skull instead of him ending her life.

Do you think about killing criminals often?

[Noradin]

I meant, if you are drunk and someone invades your home, go ahead and shoot their ass.

They'd probably turn out to be the police with a no-knock-warrant for some house on the other side of the city.

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Do you think about killing criminals often?

Potential criminals even... unless he wants to tell us he is convinced he can see the future.

[alturic]

So... what's the over under that this guy has done this before? Someone just so happened to get in the back of his car and he had the door locks set for children.
I doubt that this was an opportunistic dad just seizing the moment.

I originally had a lengthy comment talking about how I couldn't see this being premeditated, and while I see your point, it's so hard for me to understand how it happens. It seems like such a specific set of circumstances have to occur.

1.) Someone has to be on the prowl looking for a target.
2.) Target has to order an uber.
3.) Target has to not look at the app to see the car type, color and location of the car. I can get the type/color not being difficult if it's dark, but...
4.) Target has to walk up to a random car, get in and close the door without ever asking (although she could have) if they are her uber.
5.) Target has to have such shit friends that they don't help her or at least make sure they are getting in the right car.

None of this is to say the target is at fault for their death, but to just blindly trust random strangers is fucking insane.

[Ghostpanther]

They'd probably turn out to be the police with a no-know-warrant for some house on the other side of the city.

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Lol! That is possible. Most home invasions, that is not the case however.

[MrLachyG]

This doesn't make it her fault, but this is yet another problem with society anymore. Get shitfaced, have someone else take care of me. I always rent cars when I'm away on business, but it does boggle my mind how many people trust random strangers. I don't care what year it is, 80's when I was born, 90's, 00's or 10's, crazy.

I was an Uber driver and got flagged down by someone who I thought I was picking up and the app had the wrong spot. Turns out he was just drunk and decided to hop in randomly. Took me threatening to call the cops to get him out.

[Mehrunes]

It was a Friday night, she was out with her friends and had been drinking. Pretty sure the last thing a drunk person needs is a gun, they're more likely to shoot themselves than anything else.

Not if they shoot the alcoholic beverage before consumption. That's just a scientific fact. Guns solve everything.

[Micronetic]

Josephson was killed after Columbia Police say she mistakenly got into a car thinking it was her Uber ride. Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook announced Saturday night that 24-year-old Nathaniel David Rowland is charged with murder in the case.

Okay, how do they know that? Did they use a Medium to talk to her ghost saying it to them or what?

[McFuu]

I originally had a lengthy comment talking about how I couldn't see this being premeditated, and while I see your point, it's so hard for me to understand how it happens. It seems like such a specific set of circumstances have to occur.

1.) Someone has to be on the prowl looking for a target.
2.) Target has to order an uber.
3.) Target has to not look at the app to see the car type, color and location of the car. I can get the type/color not being difficult if it's dark, but...
4.) Target has to walk up to a random car, get in and close the door without ever asking (although she could have) if they are her uber.
5.) Target has to have such shit friends that they don't help her or at least make sure they are getting in the right car.

None of this is to say the target is at fault for their death, but to just blindly trust random strangers is fucking insane.

Well I don't think he was prowling for a specific target. Maybe just looking for someone to rob. And really he doesn't need to be 100% successful. He drives an impala which is pretty much the universal taxi. If he waits outside where all the other cabs/uber's are (this is common in some areas) he would blend right in. Someone orders an uber, he pulls up and they may get straight in, or he could say he got a new car.
But still, there are videos on YouTube of people just randomly getting in cars thinking they were ubers.
If he gets 3 or 4 people in the car accidentally a week, he could choose who to rob based on the person.

[Coolthulhu]

This is why everyone should always (legally) have some sort of weapon at the ready, preferably both a lethal and a non-lethal option. A pepper spray never hurts to have, is legal in most countries (at least one would hope), and articles about them saving people from fates such as that described in the OP are not uncommon in the local news. Of course, where possible (as in, when legal), a gun provides an additional, stronger layer of security; and as a lady who I often meet at the range once said, some guns are just added pieces of jewelry, only with an added function. And she isn't wrong, look at this beauty for instance:

Jesus fuck... you guys are really crazy.

Yeah, it's really crazy to prefer a criminal getting shot to death as opposed to an innocent getting killed. Utter insanity, really.

Yes. Technically guns can solve all crimes at a certain point. Makes you wonder why the fuck they don't, doesn't it? I fully expect a nutcase coming in saying "that's because not all people have guns, duh" any second now.

Of course, one must be such a nutcase for thinking that people having means to defend themselves would improve their chances of surviving a violent crime. You people really seem to post from an alternate universe where everything is upside-down, where the lives of the criminals are somehow more worth defending than those of law-abiding people.

See, where I live, nobody needs to do that. That disconnect you feel now is you not getting how being in a safe society feels like. That paranoia you have? Absolutely alien to me.

Being in a safe society doesn't prevent you from getting murdered by some psycho for the craziest of reasons. We live in a world where looking happy is reason enough to get your throat sliced open. I don't understand how hard it is to realize that even in the safest of societies, there always will be psychos.

It was a Friday night, she was out with her friends and had been drinking. Pretty sure the last thing a drunk person needs is a gun, they're more likely to shoot themselves than anything else.

If you're planning on getting smashed, then you probably should leave your gun at home. But you should also probably go and get smashed with friends, as most people I know normally do. The designated driver who doesn't drink, and then escorts his drunk friends back home, before heading home himself. No issue in such a person having a gun - whereas not having a designated driver and driving back home whilst drunk is way more dangerous than being drunk and just having a gun, as the post-weekend news always remind us.

[Socialhealer]

Oh yes shooting someone in the seat infront of you is so damn hard? lol its not like she would had to fire at a moving target 1000 feet infront of her.

Ah you sit in an uber with your hand on your gun ready to fire at any second.

dude you're a fucking joke, you ain't steven seagal you'd end up dead as well, but seems you're stuck behind a keyboard acting tough, you're exactly the fool my comment was aimed at, congrats on being that fool.

[Mehrunes]

I know i could have as i have some experience with firearms, her dunno with some practise im sure.

Maby of she had a big ass pitbull with her she would be fine, my point where that pretty much anything could have helped or saved her there, she got zero chance against a male with nothing.

She was drunk, way too close to the perp and was likely not suspecting anything. The only weapon that would have "helped" her in that situation would be a dead man's switch bomb and even then all it would have achieved would have been taking him down with her.

[ParanoiD84]

Ah you sit in an uber with your hand on your gun ready to fire at any second.

dude you're a fucking joke, you ain't steven seagal you'd end up dead as well, but seems you're stuck behind a keyboard acting tough, you're exactly the fool my comment was aimed at, congrats on being that fool.

Whats with the steven seagal? Hes fucking shit. Your hero for sure lmao.

[The Stormbringer]

I would not recommend setting off pepper spray inside a closed car.

Better than being stabbed to death, aye?

[ButterBeast]

They'd probably turn out to be the police with a no-knock-warrant for some house on the other side of the city.

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Potential criminals even... unless he wants to tell us he is convinced he can see the future.

using his logic. Werent that guy allowed to kill her with his own gun i mean she TRESSPASSED in his car!

[AngryTenko]

Better than being stabbed to death, aye?

Considering you gonna be pepper spraying BOTH of you, since that shit spreads, you gonna be blinded and trapped in close quarters with a dude who's also blind, but more sober than you, larger than you, and with a knife. You're gonna remove any advantage you'd have gotten otherwise.

[Socialhealer]

Whats with the steven seagal? Hes fucking shit. Your hero for sure lmao.

Thats why i said in the films, DUH, meaning not real life. but i guess you somehow missed that.

[ParanoiD84]

Thats why i said in the films, DUH, meaning not real life. but i guess you somehow missed that.

Atleast try naming someone more badass next time because hes a joke. And i think your the only one taking about movies here.

[Socialhealer]

Atleast try naming someone more badass next time because hes a joke. And i think your the only one taking about movies here.

lol you're talking like you're in a movie mate, i thought you'd get it, you're just ready to gun down anyone at any second, even if you're drunk and just expecting a normal taxi ride home.