A Parisian driver for the car service Uber was reportedly fired this week for refusing to pick up gay passengers leaving a gay club in the heart of Paris. Twice!
French daily Le Parisien reports that Julien Léo Pasktier and a friend requested a car from the Uber app whilst leaving a Parisian club on Saturday night. According to Pasktier, once the driver arrived, he refused to let the two men in his car, claiming “I don’t take gays.”
The driver returned moments later when the men attempted to hail a different cab from the Uber app. This time, the men took a picture of the driver’s license plate and were threatened. Pasktier says the driver threatened to break his phone and later, realizing what he had done, offered the friends a ride home in a confrontational manner.
Pasktier took to Twitter:
"Non je prends pas les pédales" @Uber_Paris merci à votre chauffeur plaque "CS759DM" 5h57 qui nous a refusé la course car pas à son goût.
— Julien Léo Pasktier (@leopask) April 27, 2014
(Translated via the Local: No, I don’t take gays. @Uber_Paris thank you to your driver plate number CSM759DM3 5:57am who refused our trip because it wasn’t up to his taste)
Uber responded, citing their zero-tolerance policy for discrimination. The driver was suspended:
@Lucas_Hrrschr Bonjour Lucas, ce comportement inacceptable n'est absolument pas représentatif de l'esprit Uber. Le chauffeur a été suspendu.
— Uber France (@UberFR) April 27, 2014
(Translated via the Local: @Lucas_Hrrschr Hello Luca, this unacceptable behavior is absolutely not representative of the spirit of Uber. The driver has been suspended.)
And later fired:
@MaXaWauq @Lucas_Hrrschr Je vous confirme qu'il sera radié de nos services. Nous ne plaisantons pas avec ça.
— Uber France (@UberFR) April 27, 2014
(Translated via the Local: @MaXawauf @Lucas_Hrrschr I can confirm the driver will fired. We don’t joke around with this.)
Apparently this driver missed the memo on discriminating against potential fares. Hint: You can’t do that.
Snapper59
Any more details? A “Parisian” driver, huh. Born and raised there?
Funny it’s next to a story on how awful the Mormons are. Oh I’m not disagreeing it’s just that often a certain religion gets ignored in “the cabdrivers wouldn’t give the gays a ride” stories.
Dakotahgeo
These bastards just aren’t going to learn! Hope he enjoys the unemployment line!
Cam
Fuck him.
And Snapper59, one difference, the LDS church organized and spent over a hundred million in elections here and funding NOM to deny us our rights.
You know, just reminding you.
Snapper59
Oh, the LDS church won’t let the gays marry?
Here’s what the religion that shan’t be mentioned does.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oW6z0VGz4w4/T7TRdhFLbTI/AAAAAAAApOU/_j5LTcRdpaw/s400/gay_hanging_iran.jpg
You know, just reminding YOU.
Dakotahgeo
@Snapper59: @Snapper59: Just what the hell is your point, jackalope? If you don’t like gays or anyone else, move the hell to Iran or the Mid-east where they don’t have any gods!
Billy Budd
I hope he will starve. That will teach him.
Desert Boy
I hate the French. Always have.
jwrappaport
@Dakotahgeo: There aren’t gods in the Middle East? Sure there are, one at least – he’s called Allah, and they take his edicts mighty seriously around those parts.
Dakotahgeo
@Dakotahgeo: Sorry, I don’t acknowledge third rate gods. Now IF the Muslims understand Allah as one and the same God/Trinity, yes, then we’ll visit. If not… whateva!
Dakotahgeo
@jwrappaport: Sorry, I don’t acknowledge third rate gods. Now IF the Muslims understand Allah as one and the same God/Trinity, yes, then we’ll visit. If not… whateva!
Cam
@Snapper59:
Just a reminder douche, we don’t live in Iran. Stop trying to shield the Mormon church by insinuating that they are somehow better with gays than Islam is.
They spent over 100 million fighting against our rights here. Pointing out that Islam in Iran is just as fucked up as Mormonism is here towards gays doesn’t make the Mormons any better.
Snapper59
@Cam: Seriously, you’re going to compare public hangings for being gay to opposition to gay marriage? Seriously? OK, I’ll go to Salt Lake City and be unhappy, you go to Tehran in a rainbow shirt.
Snapper59
And my point was that it is primarily the Muslim cabbies who refuse suspected gay fares and I suspect it is the same with this “Parisienne”.
Mezaien
No GAYS in Taxi, no white Christian republican on my street “BE WARN”.
Ruhlmann
@Desert Boy: Seul un trou du cul pourrait faire un tel commentaire.
Cam
@Snapper59:
No, what your comment is trying to do is give cover to the major problem causers in THIS country.
I don’t hear about Islamic temples donating over 100 million to fight against gay rights nationwide, and I don’t see Muslim presidential candidates speaking out against gays.
If I lived in Iran I would be far more worried about Islam than Mormons, but I don’t, and you trying to give cover to the Mormons is ridiculous. Of COURSE the Cabbie is Muslim, he drives a cab in Paris where 10% of the population is from Algeria.