What are the odds? Hong Kong woman has iPhone 14 Pro stolen by taxi driver, encounters same car with new cabby days later
- Woman realises her phone was still in taxi just after getting out but claims driver sped away when she tried to retrieve it
- When she hailed a taxi days later at exact location she was picked up by same car driven by another person
Against all odds, a lucky Hong Kong woman encountered the same taxi more than a week after leaving her HK$10,000 (US$1,300) iPhone 14 Pro in it.
The woman, named Tung Tung, posted in a Hong Kong lost and found Facebook group that she left her iPhone in a taxi in Kam Tin in the New Territories, a northern region in the city, on July 7, according to a local news site.
She said she realised that her phone was still in the car just after she got out but claimed the driver, on seeing her try to signal for him to stop, accelerated and quickly drove away.
Tung Tung said her phone had already been switched off when she called her number five minutes later.
Posting on the same day that she lost the phone, Tung Tung said she messaged the driver pleading with him to return the phone which held important content.
After more than a week, Tung Tung had given up on seeing her phone again. On July 16 when she hailed a taxi at the exact location she got the same vehicle in which she left her phone but it was driven by a different driver.
