Meet Brandon Gale, an Uber driver from Illinois, who helped a woman lose a creepy man by pretending to be her boyfriend.

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Gale's viral Facebook post that details the event began:
“Last night, while driving for Uber, I got a call to pick up a woman from over by the fair. About 30 seconds after accepting the ride, the rider sent me a message via the app."

Passenger texted: 'When you get here, can you pretend to be my boyfriend?'

When he asked what she meant, she added, "I just need you to act like you know me, and that you're not my Uber driver".

"I removed the Uber and Lyft stickers."

Before he got to the pickup, Gale removed the Uber stickers from his window and kept his wedding ring out of sight.

"When I got there, I had my window rolled down. A man and a woman were in the front yard, talking," Gale wrote. "The woman looked over and yelled, 'Hi, Babe! I'll be right there!' I didn't want to leave her hanging, so I shouted back, 'Awesome because I'm starving!'" Once the woman was in the car, she explained her behavior. 

"He wouldn't take no for an answer."

The woman told Gale that the man was in a group of friends she'd been out with, and had been acting very forward with her and wouldn't take no for an answer. 
"She thought that she could leave him behind by heading to her car, but he followed her, claiming to be a gentleman," Gale wrote. "Before they got to her car, she claimed to have lost her keys. He offered to give her a ride, and that's when she decided to call her 'boyfriend'."

NO MEANS NO

Gale finished his now viral post by urging men to be respectful towards women and to learn that NO MEANS NO.

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