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Sweeney Preston

RIP: A Bloke In The UK Mistakenly Paid $61K For An Uber After The Address Was Set To ‘Australia’

The most unlucky bloke in Manchester, England had to chase an Uber refund of £35,000 (AUD $61,014) after the destination address was somehow set to “Australia”. Poor bugger, not even a business class flight costs that much! At age 22, Oliver Kaplan would’ve probably preferred to save up for a car, a mortgage or even a holiday. But when he woke up the next day after booking a ride home on the Uber app, he copped a nasty shock. “Everything seemed normal. The driver arrived, I got in the Uber and he took me exactly where I was meant to be going,” the trainee chef said as per the Manchester Evening News
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