Culture Obese rapper sues Lyft ride-share company after a driver denied service

A morbidly obese Detroit rapper named Dank Demoss sued Lyft ride-share company after one of its drivers denied service.

The driver reportedly told Demoss she was “too big” to fit inside his Mercedes-Benz sedan.

Demoss filed a lawsuit a week after the Lyft driver told her she couldn’t fit in the backseat of his car. “I got no space. My car is small,” the driver told her.

“I can fit in this car,” she told the driver. “How do you know I don’t have no space?”

When Dank Demoss insisted she could fit in the backseat, the driver replied, “Believe me, you can’t… Order a bigger car, please.”

The driver added, “I had a situation before where someone big couldn’t fit on the seat.”

After Demoss shared a TikTok video of the incident, Lyft responded and apologized for the driver’s “unacceptable behavior.”

The rapper’s lawyers claim weight discrimination is illegal in Michigan. They are seeking damages for her emotional distress.

Lyft has settled multiple lawsuits in recent years. But legal experts say Dank Demoss may not have a leg to stand on.

Drivers are not Lyft employees, they are independent contractors driving their private vehicles. They can refuse service within reason, according to Ride Guru.

Social media users were unsupportive of her plight. Many X users left cruel comments mocking her weight. Others said Lyft should not have apologized because it proved wrongdoing on the driver’s part.



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[Agarathium1066]

Heyyy its Dank! What is not mentioned is that this woman is over 500 pounds of lard. The Lyft rider was right to tell her to order a larger vehicle.

This whale has a WIP thread in Prospering Grounds : Link

 

[oldTireWater]

Dank Demoss may not have a leg to stand on

Nice.

What's her rap name? Short Verse? Big Pause? C-Pap? Agonal Breaf?

 

[JohnnyG]

morbidly obese

I think we need a new category beyond morbidly obese. This woman apparently weighs ~500 pounds, and would be morbidly obese at less than half that. She's several hundred pounds past morbid obesity, with what are basically 50+ pound tumors hanging off her body.

When you are quite literally the size of 4 healthy people, you are creating multiple reality-defying problems for everyone around you.

 

[OrionBalls]

While they may not be direct employees of Lyft, I guarantee Lyft shut this driver's account instantly upon receiving the complaint, and will take months to reinstate it. This fat bitch cost someone their livelihood. (Not that ride-sharing should ever be a primary source of income. It works better as a supplemental job. But, still.)

 

[Asian tech support]

A minivan? She should have requested a forklift.

 

[Agarathium1066]

Nice.

What's her rap name? Short Verse? Big Pause? C-Pap? Agonal Breaf?

Big Dank is her rap name. Her real name (according to her thread) is Dajua.

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

I think we need a new category beyond morbidly obese.

I mean, it's been done...

 

[A Very Big Fish]

If I were too fat to get in to an Uber, I would take that secret to the grave.

 

[Rei is Shit.]

lmao @ that "music" video

 

[Gog & Magog]

I do not have enough s to describe the horror I am seeing.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

While they may not be direct employees of Lyft, I guarantee Lyft shut this driver's account instantly upon receiving the complaint, and will take months to reinstate it. This fat bitch cost someone their livelihood. (Not that ride-sharing should ever be a primary source of income. It works better as a supplemental job. But, still.)

Reading through her thread in PG, she apparently got him fired.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Lyft didn't deny her anything, the laws of physics did. If it was my car, I wouldn't know how to fit her inside and I'd probably suggest her to tie her up on the roof for the ride.

 

[Grundlejungle]

Being fat is like smoking crack. It's a choice that mainly black people make.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

She doesn't care that she'll die before 40, she can't even count that high.

 

[Judge Holden]

But legal experts say Dank Demoss may not have a leg to stand on.

Diabeetus concurs with the legal experts on this matter

 

[AllieKat]

"It would be no different than a Lyft driver saying I don't want black people in my car"......if only we were truly a free country.

 

[Burd Turglar]

I thought this was going to be about Dave Blunts or whatever that soon to be dead nigger is named but wouldn't ya know it, it's about another disgusting nigger that should be air lifted to Somalia.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

I can't imagine trying to stuff that veritable mountain of grease into a minivan, let alone what looks like a fucking C-Class. Christ.

 

[William F. Clinton]

Another remarkable product of The Great American Experiment.