A young woman has been left terrified after her Uber driver allegedly refused to take her home before rambling about being part of Islamic State and wanting to blow up Parliament House.
The 26-year-old, who chose to remain unnamed, ordered an Uber to go to Theodore in Canberra’s south on Saturday after a night out with friends, but was told by her driver he was taking her to Cooma, 100 kilometres away.
After he ‘asked if she’d ever eaten human flesh,’ and said he wanted to bomb a major shopping centre, she asked him to pull over at a service station to use the bathroom.
‘I banged on the window for the girl to let me in,’ the woman wrote on a Facebook post.
The Canberra woman said she rang triple-0 during the car ride and put it on loudspeaker, but they hung up after a minute.
‘He [said] he had his own ISIS-related organisation and how he was going to bomb Parliament House and the Canberra centre,’ she said.
‘I asked him how long until I’m home and he said: “I’m not taking you home, I’m going to Cooma”.
‘I was terrified! I called 000 and sat with my phone on my lap hoping that the police may intervene hearing the guy speak about bombs and ISIS’.
At the service station in Hume, she called police again just after 2am and officers arrived to speak to the driver.
He allegedly told them he was ‘joking to wind [her] up’.
Police have confirmed the driver is being investigated and he has been banned from driving with Uber until ‘allegations are assessed’.
Source: Uber driver told Canberra woman he was in Islamic State | Daily Mail Online
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