{"id":181885,"date":"2016-02-21T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/21\/the-classic-scorsese-movie-is-taxi-driver-not-uber-driver\/"},"modified":"2016-02-21T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T02:47:00","slug":"the-classic-scorsese-movie-is-taxi-driver-not-uber-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/21\/the-classic-scorsese-movie-is-taxi-driver-not-uber-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"The classic Scorsese movie is Taxi Driver, not Uber Driver."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/g0xzowm.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"300\" \/>I dunno, maybe it&#8217;s a 20-teens thing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/21\/us\/michigan-kalamazoo-county-shooting-spree\/\">a wannabee Travis Bickle is now driving Uber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The man accused of killing six people and injuring two more in a Saturday evening shooting rampage in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was an Uber driver who picked up and dropped off passengers between shootings, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The source, who is not authorized to speak to media, said investigators believe Jason Brian Dalton was even looking for fares after the final shooting of a nearly seven-hour killing rampage. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It could be that this guy is just nuts.<\/p>\n<p>It could be that Uber&#8217;s abuse of its drivers drove him mad.<\/p>\n<p>It could be that a he has a history of issues that would not have allowed him to get a hack license.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure, but I saw the Scorsese reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dunno, maybe it&#8217;s a 20-teens thing that a wannabee Travis Bickle is now driving Uber: The man accused of killing six people and injuring two more in a Saturday evening shooting rampage in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was an Uber driver who picked up and dropped off passengers between shootings, a source with knowledge of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,993,1052,1011,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cinema","category-crimes","category-history","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}