One unfortunate, shitfaced New Jersey man took an Uber ride that won’t be easy to forget, even though he was asleep for a lot of it—because it spanned three states and cost him $1,600.
Kenny Bachman was visiting friends in West Virginia when he dozed off in the back of his Uber after a night of beer-and-shot deals or whatever. But when Bachman woke up, he wasn’t nursing a hangover in his friend’s place near the West Virginia University campus—he was still in the Uber, on a 300-mile drive back to his home in Gloucester County, New Jersey, NJ.com reports.
Bachman told the site that he woke up after two hours asleep in the Uber XL, completely baffled about why he was speeding down a strange highway in a car early Saturday morning. “I just woke up,” Bachman explained to NJ.com, “and I’m thinking, Why the fuck am I in the car next to some random-ass dude I don’t even know?”
The driver quickly filled Bachman in on what he missed. According to the guy behind the wheel, Bachman had requested an UberXL to pick him up and had drunkenly selected his New Jersey home as the destination. Oh, and it was Friday night, so prices were surging. At that point, Bachman was only two hours into a five-hour drive, so he could have easily just told the Uber driver to end the ride and leave him at a Rite Aid or whatever, but in his groggy state, he decided to just see the ride through all the way home.
