Unless the app you use to summon an Uber has a sobriety test and I just checked, it doesn’t, I’d say Uber is not at fault in the slightest. They did what a presumed rational adult requested.
I don’t see it as being anyone’s problem but the drunken sot who got himself into such a state of his own volition.
if I use an online ordering system how could it possibly be the company’s problem on the other end since there is no direct interaction and it’s not the driver/delivery person’s job to play “Are you sure you want to go to X” or “Do you really need fourteen extra cheesy pizzas?”
A moment’s planning by our partygoer would have saved him a fortune. "Hmm, I will probably drink myself unconscious again (I really doubt it was his first rodeo) so I had better arrange some things in advance so I don’t wind up featured in online amusement blogs.
But the ignorant sometimes learn best when they put their finger on the hot stove that it is indeed hot.
Mind you, I am not a lawyer and I am in no doubt there will be at least one willing to take up the cudgels on behalf of this “poor victim”. There always is if the money is big enough.
