Posted on 01/28/2025 10:30:34 AM PST by algore
A plus-sized rapper has sued Lyft after claiming a driver refused to pick her up over fears she was too big to fit in his car and could 'burst his tyres'.
Dank Demoss, 36, real name Dajua Blanding, filmed her interaction with the Lyft driver earlier this month, showing her arguing back and forth over whether she could fit into his vehicle.
'I can fit in this car,' Demoss said.
'Believe me, you can't,' the driver responded in the clip.
Although the driver said he would refund her ride so Blanding wouldn't be charged for the trip, she sued the taxi service claiming she was discriminated against.
After Blanding shared the video to her Instagram, many jumped to the driver's defense and said she should have listened to his recommendation to order a larger XL.
'It's against the law to overload a car,' one commenter said in response. 'The driver was very polite, he explained his valid reasons, and even apologized... try seeing things from another's perspective.'
In her suit, Blanding says the driver pulled up in a Mercedes Benz sedan, but locked his doors and tried to drive away when he saw her.
When she confronted him, she says the driver told her she was too big to fit in his backseats and said his tires could not support her weight.
'What do I have to do with your tires?' she was heard asking him in the clip.
Blanding's attorneys Jonathan Marko and Zach Runyan argued that the driver refusing to take her constituted discrimination because weight is a protected characteristic in Michigan.
'I knew that it was illegal, and I knew that it was wrong,' Marko told Fox 2, equating the refusal to pick Blanding up 'no different than refusing someone transportation based on their race or religion.'
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From DM-—”Dank Demoss, real name Dajua Blanding, claimed she was humiliated and discriminated against in her lawsuit, and said the interaction ‘hurt my feelings’”
Given the size of her thighs and other body parts there are a lot of ‘feelings to hurt’.
There was thread posted earlier today about brown fat...
Uh yeah... NO
Andrew Dice Clay... Whoa, I’m Bad!
You just have to send the right vehicle.
Axin' for a friend...
That's another reason to ban rap/hip-hop from the planet - absolutely disgusting with no redemmable qualities.
In the old days in Africa she’d be on the menu.
,,, it would cost a fortune to freight that across town. The Benz gets to live another day.
That’s the industrial-strength control-top panties look. Otherwise her gut would be down around her knees, and her kooz would be — under there, somewhere. She likely hasn’t seen it in years.
,,, winner! LOL
Imagine on a plane?
“Plus size” is a euphemism
Imagine on a plane?
"Weird Al" Yankovic: Fat (Official music video)
must be the ghettopottamus clause.
This woman should only be allowed in public in a caftan or mumu.
No
You need to take the next barge back to your natural habitat, the ocean...
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