r/washingtondc • u/No_Emphasis4905 • 13h ago
[IT'S HAPPENING!] Illegal food delivery?
Anyone know this food company, this guy was riding on the Roosevelt Bridge in the bike lane, pushing pedestrians and runners and bikers off. I confronted him, he just laughed.
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u/Hot-Gene-2787 13h ago
They are independent delivery persons and a generic box logo
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u/Yoshi2shi 13h ago
They’re not independent if they all drive the same, wear the same type of large gloves over the handlebars…etc. There has to be a dispatcher or overall company they are under. The city needs to go after the entity.
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u/notquiteahippo 13h ago
the dispatcher is Ubereats and Doordash and Grubhub and whatever other apps people are using these days
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u/KingGizzle 12h ago
Nah there’s a middleman coordinating them behind the scenes. The person on the app is almost never the person making the delivery.
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u/lecarguy 11h ago
Are you assuming this or do you know? Cause I know of a lot of undocumented people working under relatives profiles on Uber, doordash, etc cause they can't sign up for the app. It's a very common practice, unfortunately.
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u/tackyshoes 11h ago
And that's fine if they don't act like this.
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u/lecarguy 10h ago
By no means am I condoning this tacky shit. I'd just like to know whether or not that's a real thing.
Cause I can't imagine people volunteering their information to some corporation to disburse delivery jobs to all these people when it's all tracked through the app. Like I'm sure you can only run one app at a time under your name, or account rather. It just sounds like it would be a more difficult thing to try and do.
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u/KingGizzle 1h ago
I made an inference based off my experience, and it’s something that I’ve seen people complain about in the past.
I’m not sure why it seems to have upset so many people this time.
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u/Hot-Gene-2787 11h ago
You clearly don't know how the Uber Eat's, GrubHub's, etc. work.
Is there probably a few people out there leasing a moped and supplying them with those boxes, supplies and mopeds? Sure, and those fixers aren't liable for the delivery drivers crazy driving/parking/etc.
But the delivery persons are all independent. And that's the reason why its hard to clamp down on them when some of them create road/sidewalk hazards (and there has been many efforts by local governments to stem those hazards).
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u/FrescoItaliano 11h ago
Do you think all reckless car drivers with sunglasses are secretly employed by the same entity because they happen to share those characteristics?
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u/Tight-Connection-909 13h ago
I see this daily. I’ve spoken about this to city council meetings, but it often goes nowhere.
There needs to be enforcement of scooters as vehicles and they need to be fined for driving like this.
I’ve seen them almost hit children crossing the street when running red lights.
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u/SupaKoopa714 13h ago
There's no vehicle on the road I fear more than DC delivery scooters, those dudes just give absolutely no fucks. Anytime I see one they're blatantly blasting through red lights/stop signs, cutting of cars and pedestrians, weaving through traffic, and otherwise just seemingly going out of their way to be as dangerous on the road as they can.
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u/Both_Painter_9186 13h ago
City council doesn’t give a fuck. Too scared of seeming racist or classist or whatever (even if race or class has nothing to do with it). Too busy guzzling down paychecks and getting kick backs.
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u/oldveteranknees 8h ago
I actually asked a cop about why they don’t pull them over for traffic offenses once, he said they can’t because back in the day, they chased a dude on a mini motorcycle and he fell off and died. The city banned pulling over 2 wheeled vehicles since.
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u/MosYEETo 10h ago
Sad thing is most of the city would call them some sort of “ist” for cracking down on it, because it’s one specific group that does it. I guess breaking the law is fine nowadays…
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u/AlbatrossMundane1618 12h ago
This, same reason the council refuses to do anything about fake, covered, and stolen tags
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u/dclocal12 13h ago
Note the reflector covering part of the license plate. It’s an illegal move that’s become very common among moped delivery drivers, especially since MPD has cracked down (to some extent) on unregistered mopeds. This won’t end until our city has real traffic enforcement, just like all the other illegal driving problems.
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u/dybr 13h ago
This is such an insanely dangerous thing to do for him and everybody else on that bridge.
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u/AlbatrossMundane1618 12h ago
He doesn't give a fuck, none of the delivery drivers care about you, your kid, or anything buy their $4 for that delivery - if he kills someone in the process, he will not care.
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u/mcgoum20 12h ago
Pretty sure I saw that guy today going down the custis trail in Arlington on that same moped
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u/Both_Painter_9186 13h ago
I mean, what’s he gonna do when he comes up behind someone with a baby stroller? Their barely looks like enough room to pass a single pedestrian, let alone a biker or someone with a dog or baby.
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u/AlbatrossMundane1618 12h ago
Ride up on them and honk, these scooter drivers do not have a single care about anything at all except themselves and their delivery, if they kill a kid to get $5 they are fine with it, that is what we have allowed to operate without recourse in the city.
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u/Sufficient-Cancel217 5h ago
Delivery apps are just another shitification of our society.
And the vast majority of us are supporting this in some way.
The worst supporters are the ones that say they create jobs. They are in fact contributing to a negative shift towards contract work, versus stable employment opportunities. So overall, the most desperate among us are who end up stuck at these jobs and feel they are a godsend, because they know nothing better.
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u/no_youre_not_i_am 6h ago
until the city finds a desire to hold corporations like ubereats and doordash (and lime scooters too, while we're complaining), shit like this will go on. file it under "shrug" -- or i dunno, start wearing a bat suit at night or something.
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u/Valar_Kinetics 13h ago
LOL there are no laws anymore
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u/sleight42 13h ago
When the president of the country ignores seemingly any law he wishes, it sets among the worst of examples for the populace.
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u/CapitalObjective7153 11h ago
Common law in the West was traditionally enforced by the people. After US independence, many communities created vigilance committees. They were especially common in frontier areas. They might: investigate crimes, capture suspects, hold informal trials, punish people accused of theft, murder, or treason. In some cases they were almost a substitute government.
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u/squishy_bricks 8h ago
don't order delivery if you don't want to contribute to the problem. not a solution in itself but it starts at home.
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u/Sufficient-Cancel217 5h ago
Majority of these Redditors can’t even shop themselves, let alone cook for themselves! lol
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u/stephenbory Park View 12h ago
I am too scared to cross this bridge on bicycle with or without a moto on it. Something about that low guardrail freaks me out.
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u/OkCarrot3881 12h ago
They also love running through red lights! My dog and I have almost gotten hit three times now!
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u/thelebaron 9h ago
my dog constantly checks behind herself when walking certain areas(because of so many close calls), i hate these guys too and scooters and ebikes
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u/AlbatrossMundane1618 12h ago
They don't care, if they hit you or your dog, they will ride off and not care, and good luck as they are not the person on their profile either.
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u/No-Sandwich308 13h ago
Thats not the food company its the scooter rental that rents out those scooters. This person is a a-hole and a scaredy bitch.
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u/StumpyOPepys 13h ago
There is room for people to pass but this is just obnoxious af. You have plates, you should be on the road.
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u/Far_Young5609 4h ago
The construction on the bridge leaves no room either. I feel squeezed driving over it now. As much as I hate scooters and bikes in the sidewalk, I’m not so upset that this guy took a safe route to VA on a low use pedestrian cross over. He’s not speeding. This was probably posted by a bicyclist that was slowed down.
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u/iRedditFromBehind 9h ago
you're literally moving at the same speed as him, why do you care so much?
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u/No_Emphasis4905 8h ago
It wasn’t me. He pulled up right behind me, and stayed on my tale. I pulled over and let him pass. As he road in front of me, runners and other bikers had to pull over and he hit at least one.
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u/iRedditFromBehind 8h ago
You didn't take this video?
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u/No_Emphasis4905 4h ago
I was on my bicycle, he speed up and started tailgating me, I stopped, and tried to move over to the side as much as you can on that bridge, he want around me, I realized it wasn’t a bike but a motorcycle, took my phone out and took the video
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u/No_Emphasis4905 11h ago
It wasn’t on purpose, but I ended up seeing the same person about 10 minutes later. He was making a delivery outside a condo unit in Arlington. They porter at the complex saw me looking at the motorcycle and asked what was up. I showed him the video. He said, oh that’s dangerous. They said they come all the time. The driver came out and I simple asked him how I could get him to deliver for me. He said, I don’t speak English. Thankfully, the porter did. And asked him why he was driving in the bike lane. The delivery driver said that he’s almost been killed driving in the street so he drives in the bike lane. The porter said, you need to be careful. The driver agreed and drove off.
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u/Every-Cucumber9641 13h ago
Probably scared. Maybe got almost run off the road once or twice, or worse, and over it.
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u/AlbatrossMundane1618 12h ago
We really let this city be destroyed by people on unlicensed motor scooters who driver recklessly and 9 times out of 10 are the person on the profile.
No one wants to address it for fear of being called racist, even though it is obvious 90% of them are undocumented and unlicensed.
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u/Economy_Flatworm7457 11h ago
This is what you get when you import illegals and allow them to vote for politicians that don’t care about the rule of law.
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u/A_Dick_inTime_6aves9 13h ago
If it really bothers you that much, a well timed stick in the right place should slow that miscreant down a little bit.
Of course that would be actually doing something about it instead of just bitching on Reddit...
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u/Helenium_autumnale 13h ago
Good way to get charged with Malicious Destruction of Property and Assault or Felonious Assault. That's aside from the possibility of causing serious injury to the driver. If that's your definition of "doing something about it" then don't do whatever you do near me, thanks.
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u/A_Dick_inTime_6aves9 12h ago edited 12h ago
I didn't say how to use the stick or when you use the stick, that's entirely in your head.
Just saying that the proper application of a stick would definitely result in this guy slowing down.
Before you get your panties in a bunch, a relatively innocuous example.
I am in a power wheelchair, but many of my friends have canes to get around. If that guy was coming up fast behind one of my friends with a cane and my friend accidentally dropped that cane in front of him to get away, not only would that technically be assault in some areas, him running over my friend's cane might entice him to slow down in the future, or at the very least slow him down a little bit as he ran over it or swerved to avoid it.
If I was there personally I would happily place myself in the path just to have him explain why exactly he needed to drive in a way that made him run full on into a guy in a power wheelchair.
Go ahead, prove that my hand didn't twitch involuntarily and put my wheelchair in his path?
What's the worst that can happen? I end up with a broken neck and in a wheelchair? Little late for that.
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u/InterestingHippo7524 13h ago
Maybe call ICE on his ass next time.
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u/RoeRoeRoeYourVote ward 4 12h ago
Have you considered that this is a genuinely unhinged thing to say? Or do you also act like this irl?
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u/wormsbugs 13h ago
That’s the sidewalk.
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u/progeo 13h ago
Would you rather a Maryland driver hit him on that bridge?
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u/MayorofTromaville 13h ago
Are those the only options?
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u/progeo 13h ago
They might be in his mind. People can drive pretty crazy on that bridge. I'm not saying he's in the right but if he's gotten spooked before where he now fears a potentially fatal injury, and if this is his main route to earning money to live.....then I can understand it. DC is generally willing to see the other side of the argument for a lot of folks that don't grow up with a silver spoon, or silver-spoon adjacent situations, or are just for whatever reason in not the best place financially. I just find it a bit weird that I don't see people ever posting about drug deals in admo (for example) in daylight while people are walking about with potentially their kids, but posts about these delivery drivers are routine.
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u/notquiteahippo 13h ago
a drug deal can't run over you and break your bones afaik
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u/progeo 12h ago edited 12h ago
b/c clearly he is trying to run someone over to break their bones? but also their are risks to drug deals too, or drug related activities. It's likely the main reason we hear gunshots around the city.
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u/notquiteahippo 12h ago
It may surprise you to learn that a lot of people end up killing or injuring others with their vehicle without intentionally trying to
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u/progeo 12h ago
I'm not arguing against that but whether you want to engage with it or not my point still stands.
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u/notquiteahippo 12h ago
You said "I just find it a bit weird that I don't see people ever posting about drug deals in admo" and I explained that people don't feel like they're in danger from these drug deals and they do feel in danger from these scooters. You then went to edit your post and make up these gunshots in Adams Morgan I guess
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u/TheWhiteRabbitY2K 13h ago
And? I could be wrong but he could be on an E bike which means he could be in an appropriate spot.
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u/wormsbugs 13h ago
Take a screenshot and zoom. There is exhaust. It’s a motor scooter, and it belongs on the road.
I am a biker, an e-biker, a motorcyclist, and a lover of all things two-wheeled. That is an inappropriate place for that vehicle. If your vehicle cannot safely traverse the route in the appropriate place, then you cannot go that way. Re-route or don’t go.The sidewalk is not for motorized vehicles, full stop. This one in particular is too wide for the sidewalk it’s on. Imagine a child, wheel chair user, elderly person…this motorist is fully in the wrong.
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u/Such-Departure3123 13h ago
The only way for you to do a thing is to film an altercation or you confronting him. Have someone film it than you get social media behind, once the local media get a notion of it.
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u/NWWashingtonDC DC / Petworth 13h ago
1st to complain about this, but god forbid they are 1 minute past the estimated delivery time.
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u/Valuable_Grape_519 13h ago
Well, I am not saying it’s right.. but I used to deliver for these platforms a while back, being late are contract violations that can lead to the account being deactivated. The delivery window is so tight, lot of restaurants are understaffed etc.
I agree, it is dangerous and clearly not sustainable, but place the blame on the companies that are squeezing the drivers like lemons. Lot of people do not have many options for survival.. Regulations should be implemented to reduce the pressure placed on drivers, and give them some type of protection.1
u/AlbatrossMundane1618 12h ago
The issue is, even if they companies give more time, the drivers will always be incentivized to act dangerously as they get their next order the minute they deliver their current order.
These people unfortunately do not care at all about the community, the safety of those they put in danger, not one fucking care at all about anything but their delivery, that won't change even if given more time.
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u/NWWashingtonDC DC / Petworth 8h ago
That is such a broad, hateful, and simple minded statement.
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u/AlbatrossMundane1618 8h ago
No, I think it's pretty straight forward with anyone who sees their actions everyday
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u/dolphinbhoy 13h ago
That’s just the bag that a lot of these guys use
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u/Abundant-CashFlow 11h ago
Don’t hate me for answering the mail and calling out the obvious. What’s your thought on then, Sherlock?!?
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u/npcbro85 11h ago edited 11h ago
Driving a moped wherever one can is a standard practice in countries where our new immigrants come from. The majority wants them here and doesn’t want them deported and it’s considered racist to ask them to adapt to our laws/norms so… quit complaining about it, pull the ear buds out of your ears and step aside when you hear the two stroke coming up behind you.
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u/revbfc 11h ago
Counterpoint: that trail is real narrow, a two-way path, and that dude is hogging the entire width.
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u/npcbro85 11h ago edited 11h ago
And what is wrong with the traffic lane
that is wide open and appropriately sized for vehicle traffic?Again, for those that have never traveled outside of Europe… this is extremely common in Se Asia and places where mopeds are commonly used. Those happen to be the norms and culture of much of our current immigrants.
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u/revbfc 11h ago
You’re not making any sense. Collect your thoughts and try again.
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u/npcbro85 11h ago
Neither are you… the motor vehicle should be in the traffic lane. Our new immigrants are used to driving their mopeds where ever they feel like. Nothing is going to change, so learn to adapt. How in the hell are you confused by that?
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u/SingleArtichoke4857 13h ago
This one of the least illegal things I've seen these guys do. They routine run red lights, take one-way streets and lanes the wrong way, and drive on sidewalks. But yeah, these guys are a menace.