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Enormous caveat: Judging from this article, Lyft appears to be unwilling to give even a shadow of an idea of how the cat came to be lost outside. Like everybody
by happytoexplain 3y ago
Enormous caveat: Judging from this article, Lyft appears to be unwilling to give even a shadow of an idea of how the cat came to be lost outside. Like everybody else, I can only assume the driver abandoned it.
That said: I feel out of touch, reading all the comments on Ars to the effect of "the driver should do some soul-searching". The harshest take I've seen is a single comment suggesting that they should be fired. But this is animal abuse. It is the theft (effectively, after they realized what happened) and discarding of a stranger's beloved pet. It might have never been found. It might have died. This is not even to mention the psychological damages. The driver should face jail time.
When I think about a person doing this, I feel hatred. I can't help it, and I don't say that lightly - I can understand why people do all sorts of horrific things. But this is in the realm where I can't even imagine what it is like to have the mental framework to choose this course of action (not to say that it is more immoral than my unspoken examples of "horrific" things - of course not - but rather that it is more inexplicable, i.e. less human-seeming). Short of some extenuating circumstance that Lyft is inexplicably withholding, I have a hard time considering this behavior as anything other than a sign of simple incompatibility with society.
- refulgentis 3y agoThe thing is the idea of a crime + jailing is a legal matter, right? Let's say driver sticks to "idk what happened" and Lyft says "he did it we kicked him off our network", and then dashcam footage shows a passenger taking the carrier. Lyft doesn't have the ability to investigate without speculating, it'd be a horrible idea for them to assert anything, though I'm 99.999% sure it was the driver too (based on the assumption a naive passenger would assume it was the driver's and it they took it, the driver would see them exit with the carrier)
- singleshot_ 3y agoWhy doesn’t Lyft have the ability to investigate?
- refulgentis 3y agoThey can't, for example, issue a subpoena forcing the driver to produce any dashcam footage.
- singleshot_ 3y agoSure, but they can ban him from driving until he does. I'd say they probably have a better capacity to investigate than the police in this circumstance.
- refulgentis 3y agoAbsolutely. This comment and the comment I replied to are worlds apart in tone and suggestion, that's why I replied to it the way I did but am seemingly breezily amenable to yours.
- happytoexplain 3y agoI'm not totally following, but it sounds like you're extrapolating my opinions. Lyft does not have to assert anything they do not have confidence in. Logically, the minimum statement they could make is "we don't know how the cat got out and are investigating." > Lyft doesn't have the ability to investigate without speculating They do: If they ask the driver what happened and quote him, or report that he could not be contacted, then they are not speculating.
- sevenf0ur 3y agoIn most states it's illegal to abandon an animal on the side of the road. Pandey could try to file a police report to hold the driver responsible. Edit: Update from Pandey on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/16wl1hd/comment/k2xzm6x/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/16wl1hd/comment/k2x... > Also now, that I have her back, I want to nail the POS who stole her. I'm going to ensure that they go to jail. Fuck these people. I want revenge now. Fucking coward saw what was coming for him and left her on the side of the road. Just got off the phone with APD again. They said they have assigned the car to animal cruelty unit and have multiple officers working on the case. Yes! Justice for Tux!