Based on what I have learned recently about consent when intoxicated I am going to have to say this seems like Uber raped her.

Not only should she get her money back, but the driver and the developer of the app should be tossed in jail.

What are you doing? Drunkshaming?

(My favorite part was the "#responsibility/#MADD" hashtag bit)

It takes a special kinda something to make drunken mistakes and then ask everybody else to pay for them.

Isn't that one of the main drivers of the burgeoning campus rape crisis?

I like that she thinks everyone should care that it was her BIRTHDAY and it was so expensive and it ruined her BIRTHDAY poor baby. Dear Lord. If you're over 13, and it's not a landmark birthday, nobody wants to hear about it. Plan ahead next time. Get a DD. You're 26, grow up.

Also, $362 is WAY cheaper than a DWI. It's probably also less than your deductible if you run your car into something. And it certainly beats killing someone with your car because you couldn't get a cab.

Can't wait for the first person who loses a bundle at a casino and then attempts to crowdsource the loss.

I read this whole post thinking the quoted paragraphs were a deliberate parody, chuckling heartily away, before following the link to discover it was actually real. What else can I say.

I expect that Uber's business model will be in need of adjustment after it f*cks enough of its customers.

It may be a special kind of "something", but it just takes a Sandra Fluke kind of feminist princess to think that other people should be paying for your drunk choices.

Yes, Uber should balance it's demand pricing scale, but thats how Uber works today, and that's how Uber gets people out on the road during periods of high demand. Turns out, more Uber drivers were interested in partying than driving that night. Free market in the works. Maybe you should ditch the waitressing job and register to be an Uber driver, and focus on the Oh-drunk-thirty market. It's not like a cab company where you've got to pay an obscene graft for a taxi medallion.

Good think she didn't decide to have sex. Some poor dude would be facing a sexual assault charge, based on how her mind works.

I understand how surge pricing works, and I understand I agreed to the charge—and requested Uber Black, which is more expensive than the UberX I would have normally requested, since it was the only one available—but, dead sober or not, I know I wasn’t the only person who felt outraged that a company they trusted, and probably had good experiences with up to this point, would ask their users to agree to something as outlandish as $362 for a 20-minute ride.

So, she understands surge pricing, but is outraged that she had to pay it.

She understands that she agreed to the price, but she's outraged by the price, nonetheless.

She understands that she requested the higher-priced service, but is outraged by the higher price.

She was surprised that ride services charge more at 3:00am.

She went out and got drunk in a crowded city (Baltimore) on Halloween and couldn't find a cheap ride home, not having bothered to plan ahead and arrange one.

And she thinks that others should help her pay that bill that she agreed to pay herself because she's a blonde hippie chick with flowers in her hair.

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