Snitch Uber Driver Claims He Apologized To The Senators, Team Calls Bullshit
TORONTO — An Uber driver who posted footage of Ottawa Senators players disparaging one of their coaches and their team’s performance says he is sorry for sharing the video and has destroyed a second, unpublished clip.
James Sparklin, an Arizona father of six, told The Canadian Press he has not spoken to the players — Matt Duchene, Chris Wideman, Thomas Chabot, Colin White, Chris Tierney, Dylan DeMelo and Alex Formenton — featured in the footage he posted on YouTube, but received a thanks from a member of the team’s administration, when he reached out to offer apologies.
“I called the team…because I wanted to make sure they understood that I have destroyed the other tape. It will never ever see the light of day,” he said, describing that video as showing the players entering his van and having a pre-ride discussion about the number of passengers. “I am extremely sorry for what happened and it is not right…I never meant harm on any of the players involved, the coaching staff involved, the owner involved, the town that was involved…I wasn’t thinking at all.”
An Ottawa Senators spokesperson refuted Sparklin’s claim that he apologized, saying, “Based on our review, we have no reason to believe that any such conversation took place.”
This guy is the absolute worst. After throwing a bunch of the Senators players under the bus for ripping on their coaches and giving the video to the press, James Sparklin is now claiming that he wasn’t in the right state of mind, that he is sorry and that he has apologized to the team. He’s claiming to have called the team and said that there is another video out there and that it will never see the light of day. The Senators called bullshit saying the conversation never took place.
And even if it did take place, fuck this guy. I’d lie too. I’d probably say that he called and said he was going to release more videos. I just don’t understand people like this. They go out of their way to screw other people’s lives up for no apparent reason and then they have the balls to play the victim. Being a Senators fan is bad enough and then this guy just had to go and video tape a normal conversation and start a giant shit storm.
According to the Toronto Star, his days driving with Uber are done and everyone hates him. (shocker)
Sparklin said his days of driving for Uber are over because of the incident, as well as the fact he found it difficult to make money driving for the company.
“I never made a single penny off this video. Not one cent,” he said. “I lost a lot — my income, driving Uber, my reputation. It has brought great shame to my family.”
Well no shit buddy. Did you think people were going to like you after you pull a rat move like this? And the fact this guy didn’t make a cent off this is hilarious. It’s one thing if he was laughing his way to the bank. It’s one thing if he got like 20k for it and took a nice trip to the Bahamas for the winter. But the guy got nothing! What an idiot!