Kid Blacked Out At WVU And Took A $1,600 Uber Ride Home....To His Actual Home In New Jersey
New Jersey - Just about everyone has taken a drunken late-night Uber ride they might regret, or not even remember. But one New Jersey native recently took the blackout Uber ride of a lifetime.
After a night of partying with buddies in Morgantown, W.V. last Friday, Kenny Bachman thought he had called an Uber to take him back to where he was staying near West Virginia University’s campus.
Instead, he woke up in the passenger seat of a 2011 Toyota Sienna minivan next to an Uber driver that was taking him home. Not where he was staying with friends in West Virginia, but home home.
Like, where he lives. In Gloucester County. More than 300 miles away.
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I can’t believe this is real. I mean I can, but the reason I said I can’t is because I’ve had this nightmare so many times. I take blacked out Ubers back to Hoboken from NYC weekly. I wake up in my Hoboken apartment in the morning with no idea how I got there, but then I see the $45 Uber fee and I feel better. But so many times I’ve thought about how easy it would be for blacked out Nate to put the wrong address into the Uber app. There is no telling what someone who is 3 sheets to the wind can do. I’ve even talked to a real life female while blacked out! The power of alcohol is certainly incredible. One of my biggest fears has always been waking up somewhere I shouldn’t be, and that’s exactly what happened to this kid.
“I just woke up,” Bachman told NJ Advance Media in a phone interview. “And I’m thinking, ‘Why the f— am I in the car next to some random ass dude I don’t even know?”
The price? A hefty $1,635.93.
Bachman got back to New Jersey safe and sound. He even gave his driver five stars. But he challenged the charge; he claims he never put in the home address for the Uber. Bachman says the driver had his phone, even having answered a FaceTime call from a friend while he was asleep.
“Obviously I sent the Uber, I don’t know where to, I know I wouldn’t send it to my house, I knew where I was,” Bachman said. “He was on my phone, without me allowing it.”
Uber confirmed that the ride did indeed occur and that the driver took the rider to the destination he requested. Uber also connected with Bachman and resolved the matter, which ended with him agreeing to pay the fare.
BRUTAL.
He wanted to go home, aka where he was staying, and ended up going home, aka his home in New Jersey. And he blames the Uber driver. I’m assuming what happened is he told the Uber driver to take him home, and the Uber driver changed the address to what was saved as “home” in his phone. If my Uber driver ever touched my phone I’d want to kill him, but that’s neither here nor there.
But I’ll give credit to Uber- they don’t care if you’re sober as a fox or more blacked out than Tyler Perry’s funeral, you’re paying your god damn fare. They did reimburse me for this though.
