Not an Uber driver, but an Uber rider. I got on Uber once and asked an Uber driver the same question. If there was a horror story he'd like to share. He hesitated but as a nice and energetic guy he was he told the story to me and my GF. Apparently, around end of 2014 this guy gets a pin in morning to go pick up somebody from a not so rich but high middle class neighborhood. Right before he's heading to pick up this guy, the person who pinged him calls him on the phone. He said he sounded like one of his friend and they had the exact same name. Automatically, he assumes it's his friend as soon as he talked to him. Let's call the dude who called the Uber driver Mike for now. So Miked called him and told him to go pick this guy who's a friend and take his bag and put it in trunk, while he requested some normal he also requested him to hide his Uber phone and never mentioning anything about it. He was weirded out and thought he's doing a favor for a friend of friend. What could go wrong?
Anyway, he drives up to the location to pick up this guy, and he had to wait 30mins for this guy o get on his car. As soon as he pick up the guy with bag in his truck, who happen to be a shady lawyer by the way. He drove off to the destination to drop this guy off. On the way driving that dude, that guy was repeatedly insulting him. Tell him he should find a job in Mexico, not America and he has an ugly ass car. HE'S NOT EVEN FROM MEXICO, just a regular South-East Asian Uber driver. Anyway, he just simply apologizes to shut him up and send him off and get this over with. As soon as he gets close to the destination his phone rings again, and it's Mike. Mike asked him once he drop this lawyer guy off he should go to the second destination to hand him the bag. He said it sounded fishy. So he drop off the lawyer at some courthouse and head to the second destination to drop off the bag and head home. The second destination was quite a shady neiborhood somewhere out of town. As soon as he gets there, there is this guy who walk up to him to shake his hand. He's a bit confused and keep staring at this guy's hand. So at that moment that guy says "I'm Mike. So where is the bag?" The Uber driver with confused and surprised expression tells him it's in his trunk. Apparently, that Mike was not his friend as he was expecting it to be. Mike asked him to sit in his driver sit and don't come out when he needs a bit of privacy. So he sits on his driver sit and watch that guy through his rear-view mirror to see what he's up to. From what he saw was this guy immediately pull a gun out of the bag and put it in his pants, and tasted some white stuff right in his trunk and counted some greens. As soon as Mike pick up the bag the Uber driver hit gas without even looking back. He turned into an alley and drove as fast as he could to get outta there. Right after that Mike calls him on the phone asked him "what happened?" He explained to him he had a call while he was in car that his sister been an accident and he had to rush to a hospital, right on the phone Mike says turn back and I'll cover up her medical bill as favor just like you did to me. He thanked him and said "no, I have to head there. Sorry, and have a nice day," and hanged up on him. Mike calls again and this time seem a bit angry, where he says 'You saw it, didn't you you piece of shit? I know you and your family. I will come after you and cut your family in piece right in front of you and cut you last and drink your blood." Uber driver just hanged up and continued home. He emails Uber, call cops, and tell them exactly what happened.
Apparently, for next few days he was questioned by DEA, and took some samples from his trunk since when he drove off Mike spilled a bit of white stuff in his trunk. Eventually, he had to move to a new place since he was afraid that guy might find him. But Uber told him his private information are protected.
My GF was a bit shivering from the story, but he was a bit calm about it, since he also mentioned been at gun once.