CE Blog #5

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/lyft-driver-has-mental-breakdown-during-ride-california-passenger-says

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Christie Gomez was just ordering a LYFT ride to meet with her husband at the hospital. As she was in the car, her driver was in the even of a nervous mental breakdown. Unsure on what to do about this situation, she asks to be pulled over to go use the restroom at a Starbucks and gets dropped off. The driver was then found in a bathroom at a local gas station locked inside covered in soap and water.

The reporter of this article, Edmund DeMarche, shows credibility in this article as he uses CBS Sacramento's interview with the rider, Christie Gomez, to further bring this event to attention. He notes to the reader that Gomez's quote is from CBS Sacramento and not from Fox News, instead of plagiarizing it for his own report. DeMarche uses logos in this article by letting the readers know that the hospital which Gomez was riding to was 25 miles away, which creates an impact for how long Gomez could have been in the car with the mentally broken down Lyft driver. Pathos is expressed in the article as Gomez's fearful comment of "Honestly, it's the scariest thing I've ever went through in my life," and the driver's own words during the ride were "[I] can't go through like this anymore.".

In my opinion, this is such a sad story. I feel empathy towards the driver and the rider. Mental illness is a serious thing and having a mental breakdown behind the wheel is highly dangerous. My concerns are towards the driver if they were on drugs or just mentally unstable. I hope the rider was able to meet her husband fine afterwards too.

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