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<\/p>\nPolice have launched an investigation after a woman was trapped inside a stolen Uber before the thief told her to ‘get out’<\/p>\n
A woman was trapped inside a stolen Uber taxi after it was stolen from a Birmingham petrol station (stock image)(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
A woman was trapped inside a stolen Uber after it was taken from a Birmingham petrol station – before the thief pulled over, told her to ‘get out’ and even ‘fist-bumped’ her as she departed.<\/p>\n
The passenger said she was in the taxi when it was stolen from the forecourt of Shell petrol station on Harborne Lane<\/a> at around 9.35pm on Wednesday, April 8.<\/p>\n She told BirminghamLive<\/a>: “I was a passenger at the time.<\/p>\n “Strangely, the thief just calmly drove me to a bus stop and told me to go.<\/p>\n “He then fist-bumped me as if I was his best mate.<\/p>\n READ MORE: <\/strong>Exciting first pictures of what Birmingham’s Electric Cinema could look like<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “Really strange. He said he’d just left prison.”<\/p>\n The passenger said she spoke to the thief “calmly” which she believed helped.<\/p>\n She claimed: “The police didn’t give me a lift home and were more interested in recovering the stolen vehicle.”<\/p>\n West Midlands Police<\/a> has launched an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n A force spokesperson said: “We’re investigating after a vehicle was stolen from a petrol forecourt on Harborne Lane<\/a>, Birmingham<\/a>, on Wednesday at around 9.35pm.<\/p>\n “A passenger was in the vehicle at the time it was stolen but exited shortly after.<\/p>\n “We’re reviewing CCTV footage as part of our enquiries and have recovered the stolen vehicle which is being forensically examined.<\/p>\n “Anyone with any information is asked to call 101 or contact us via Live Chat quoting 20\/207108\/26.”<\/p>\n Information can also be shared anonymously by calling Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have launched an investigation after a woman was trapped inside a stolen Uber before the thief told…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,17757,16,15],"class_list":["post-890816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-harborne","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116396513642697209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}