Man seeks the wrong woman at the airport and is accused of kidnapping

If you have been to airports you know that it is very common to have people waiting in front of the arrival gate, often holding signs with someone's name. This is so that people who don't know each other can easily find each other, making it almost impossible to find the wrong person. But as we said, almost impossible, not impossible.

And that was the problem with the Reddit user identified as "u / Pmccully /" who shared a misunderstanding on the site that happened at the airport and caused him to be handcuffed by police officers. He lives near an airport in the United States and in his spare time volunteers at a Turkish community center. Last week he was asked to pick up a lady from Turkey at the airport who barely spoke English, and the good Samaritan decided to accept the assignment with his wife's surname "Demir" and the flight number.

"I went to the international gate and immediately saw an Eastern European woman waiting alone. I showed the sign with the name Demir and she smiled, pointed to her last name, to herself and without hesitation put her bags in the car and got in. Last name "Right. Eastern European? Right. Not speaking English? Right. I was very lucky!" Wrote the Reddit user, reporting the moment before chaos ensued.

It would be a 35-minute journey from the airport to the Turkish community center, but after about 15 minutes, the passenger picks up her cell phone and starts talking frantically in Turkish, and the driver understands nothing. "Ten minutes later I'm on the expressway when a policeman stops me and when I realize you're showing on my cell phone that I'm not Uber's driver ... The policeman tells me to get out of the car and I'm handcuffed. "he said, who did not understand what was happening.

When a police officer finally stopped to hear the story, he called the Turkish community center and put you on the line to explain what happened. It turns out that the surname "Demir" is like our "Silva" here in Brazil, extremely common in Turkey! When you saw the sign, she assumed it would be Uber's driver, but on the journey saw that the car was not heading toward her destination.

In the end, our hero who just wanted to help was released by the police and the story became a success at the community center.