Posted on 08/21/2025 10:01:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Russian Uber driver working illegally in the US was caught on camera head-butting a South Carolina CEO as he held his service dog, leaving the knocked-out rider with a brain injury, according to the victim and a new lawsuit.
Charleston-based CEO Bryan Kobel, 45, canceled a ride home from a French restaurant, Maison, in April because the driver refused to take his service dog, Kobel told The Post on Thursday. Disturbing surveillance footage shows the driver — identified as Vadim Uliumdzhiev, 42 — suddenly marching over and knocking out Kobel as he holds his 17-pound golden doodle in the parking lot. “The next thing I know, I’m waking up in a hospital bed with seven staples in my head and four stitches,” Kobel said. “It’s been a brutal experience to this day.” Kobel, who is the CEO of a biotech company, suffered a concussion, amnesia, and scarring— and soon learned from cops the driver had gotten the Uber job with a fake license, he said.
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This is the money quote.
Bingo. The hammer needs to fall hard on any company employing illegal aliens.
What sort of “service” does a 17 pound golden doodle provide?
Probably just emotional support for PTSD or some other mental illness
And he’s driving an Audi?! Uber biz must be pretty good.
A 17Lb golden doodle? Must be a puppy in training.
Recall all the illegal immigrants with the fake SS#s? They were forgiven for the document forgery? Had American citizens done the same thing, there would have been legal consequences.
Not to (necessarily) defend Uber, but it’s not hard to identify a fake license these days - all one needs is a link to DMV databases (hell, bars and stores are doing it now), and given Real ID these days, you can likely also determine if the person can legally work in the country from the same databases. So if Uber is missing a step as easy as verifying a driver’s license, there will be a lot more of these stories, rather than just the head-butting by our enemy of the day.
So there’s more to this story. My guess is that this guy was never screened by Uber but instead is using the account of a friend, who is legal. So Uber needs to do something about that and my suggestion is to include a large picture of the person who is supposed to pick you up (along with a warning not to take a ride with anyone else), rather than just a car description and I think a small picture.
islam hates dogs.
what the heck is wrong with people?
“Muslims are usually accepting of the exception of dogs as service animals or for agricultural work purposes such as sheep dogs. Not as pets.”
Yeah, they are still idiots. Everyone else calls them man’s best friend. They hate dogs. That about says it all.
And it isn’t that Muslims believe dogs’ saliva is impure, that’s just a reverse engineered excuse. The actual reason is that Mohammad had a homo boyfriend who would sneak into his tent at night. The dog would growl and bark, so he came out with this “dogs are haram” policy.
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