TKE from University of Michigan Verbally Abuses Uber Driver

ASTalumna06 · #1 03-28-2016, 12:03 AM

https://www.michigandaily.com/sectio...ver-goes-viral

http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/un...deo#.awbYPv0dm

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The University of Michigan says it's "extremely disappointed" in the behavior of some of its students, after a video emerged showing an aggressive, profanity-laced verbal assault of an Uber driver.

In the video, which was uploaded on March 23 but garnered more than 150,000 views on Sunday, a group of young men identified as members of a UofM fraternity were filmed swearing repeatedly and hurling gay slurs at the driver, Artur Zawada, in Ann Arbor.

Kevin · #2 03-28-2016, 12:14 AM

What a classy fella.

And then of course to cover himself, says the driver said some anti-Semitic things to him to provoke the response. Doubtful, considering the content of the tirade.

navane · #3 03-28-2016, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevin

And then of course to cover himself, says the driver said some anti-Semitic things to him to provoke the response. Doubtful, considering the content of the tirade.

I agree. I'm not buying that claim.

This was a screenshot taken from the video. I find this picture disturbing.

Tom Earp · #4 03-29-2016, 02:32 PM

If I am reading this right, it was just one TEKE? If so, one member does not condem an entire Chapter!

If more on this, I would like to see it!

Kevin · #5 03-29-2016, 03:32 PM

The gentleman with the speaking part has been identified. I'm not sure about the bystanders. Let's just hope one former or soon to be former TKE was involved.

DubaiSis · #6 03-29-2016, 07:27 PM

Does it need to be said again? Or do college kids everywhere need to watch Person of Interest? There is nowhere you can hide to get away with being a huge douche. Try being nice to strangers. Or better yet, to everyone.

BlueCarnation · #7 03-30-2016, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by DubaiSis

Does it need to be said again? Or do college kids everywhere need to watch Person of Interest? There is nowhere you can hide to get away with being a huge douche. Try being nice to strangers. Or better yet, to everyone.

Ugh...this is so terrible. Apparently he recorded it himself. Why would you record yourself being a jerk? For that matter, why do kids feel the need to record everything they do these days????

(Edited: Looks like it was the Uber driver who recorded it, not the student...sorry for the incorrect info).

As for being nice to strangers, from what I've read about him, he seems to have learned this behavior from his father, who appears to be a notorious slumlord in NYC. There is now a website devoted to this young man and this whole incident. Another black eye for my alma mater's greek system. Sigh.