News · moment 13 of 14
The Elderly Scam Shooting of an Uber Driver
from Boomer Bashing & Campus Protests | The Tim Dillon Show #391 · #391
6 min
News
Tim discusses a news story where an 81-year-old man, victim of a phone scam claiming his family was in danger, shot and killed an Uber driver who arrived to pick up a package, and admits he's sympathetic to phone scams targeting the elderly despite the tragic outcome.
- Tim opens on an epidemic of elderly people being scammed over the phone that has turned deadly, with an 81-year-old man fatally shooting an unarmed Uber driver he believed was part of the scam.
- Tim says he's pro-scam when it comes to calling old people—they're sitting at home with money they're not using, so he understands the national spirit of extracting it from them.
- The real tragedy: an Uber driver delivering a package arrives at the wrong moment and gets shot because a scammer convinced an elderly man his family was in danger.
- Tim criticizes Uber's package pickup service as a growing danger, saying deeply paranoid and schizophrenic people across the country are heavily armed and will kill delivery workers.
- Delivery drivers should take the next six months off and stop working—as the election approaches and people get crazier, showing up at strangers' doors is becoming genuinely life-threatening.
- Tim paints a darkly comic scenario where elderly people forget they ordered something, mistake the delivery person for an intruder, and create standoffs that end with someone dead holding a Five Guys bag.