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You Can't Make This Stuff Up: Uber Rider Wanted To Go To Guyana
A look at police blotter stories begins with Uber ride ending on North Fork: Rider hoping to go to Guyana was "headed in wrong direction."
NORTH FORK, NY — During the course of reading the weekly police blotters from local towns and villages, there are some stories that pop up that adhere to the old adage: "You can't make this stuff up."
Patch is unveiling a new feature that will take a look at some of the best of the blotter accounts. This week, we're kicking it off with an Uber ride gone wrong:
According to Southold Town Police, on Dec. 3 at 11:32 a.m., an Uber driver, 61, called police about a man, 54, who had requested a ride east. The driver ended the ride at the Gulf gas station on Route 25 in Laurel due to lack of payment, police said.
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The man told the driver that he'd left from his son's home in Queens — and was trying to get to New Amsterdam, in Guyana.
The driver told the rider "that he was headed in the wrong direction."
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He then took him to the bus stop in Mattituck, at the man's request, police said.
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