An Uber driver has been removed from the rideshare service after he was recorded hurling homophobic comments at an Australian couple on Saturday.
Lucy Thomas, the CEO of anti-bullying organisation PROJECT ROCKIT, was in an Uber in Melbourne with her girlfriend, Chelsea Lang, when their driver started calling them “faggots” after he realised they were in a relationship.
“We’d been out for dinner with friends and jumped in an Uber,” she told Mashable Australia. They tried to make small talk and told him they were going to be watching a football game. Read more…
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