The banned Uber striker says he will take Lyft. Then Lyft forbids it.

A woman without a mask who coughed at an Uber driver in San Francisco and grabbed her cell phone with profane rage admitted she was disrespectful, but claimed the situation could have been avoided. (Watch the video below.)

The video of the confrontation went viral while police are investigating. No arrests had been made since Tuesday, police told HuffPost. The names of the passengers have not been released.

According to police, the driver picked up the three women on Sunday, but ended the trip shortly after because one refused to wear a mask. That’s when the confrontation erupted, with one of the passengers coughing at the driver, snatching his cell phone and taking off his mask, while the other two shouted desecrations and insults.

In a social media clip detected Tuesday by CBS affiliate San Francisco, the coughing passenger gave his side of the story, minimizing his aggression. “All I did was take off my mask and cough a little,” he said.

“Okay, yeah, I won’t lie,” he continued. “It simply came to our notice then. I was wrong to blame for that. But it could have been avoided. “

He accused the driver of trying to drop passengers in an unsafe neighborhood. “I could have waited and made sure we were safe,” he said.

He threatened to sue Uber, which in a statement on Monday called passenger behavior “horrible” and banned it. He then made an impromptu endorsement of Uber’s rival.

“That’s why I take Lyft!” he declared.

He doesn’t do it anymore. Lyft also banned it.

“While this incident did not involve the Lyft platform, the unacceptable treatment of the driver in this video forced us to permanently remove the pilot from the Lyft community,” the travel company said in a statement to KPIX. “Driving in a pandemic is not easy. Wear a mask, respect yourself and be a good person. “

The driver, Subhakar Khadka, said one of the women sprayed him with pepper when they left the vehicle. Khadka, 32, from Nepal, also said the women shouted fanatical comments because she was an immigrant.

In other videos that preceded the conflict, women refuse to leave the vehicle until another Uber arrives, and Khadka threatens to leave them “in the middle of the highway” if they don’t leave immediately, CBS noted.