A Florida woman says she and her friend had to chase down an Uber driver on foot through downtown St. Petersburg late at night after the driver allegedly failed to respond to multiple contact attempts through the app. The incident, which the TikTok creator @kewch777 shared in a video, reportedly began after her friend Nikki left her phone in the back seat of an Uber following a night out.
According to the creator, Kewch, she and Nikki had gone to a baseball game at Tropicana Field before stopping at a nearby restaurant called Ferg’s. The two then took a short Uber ride to a bar called Welcome to the Farm, which she said was about a mile away from where they had parked at Tropicana Field. As soon as they stepped out of the car, she said Nikki realized she had left her phone in the back seat.
By that point, Kewch said, the driver had already driven away. She said she tried to contact the driver through the Uber app multiple times, but every call reportedly went straight to voicemail, and the driver had not set up a voicemail box. According to her, the app eventually blocked her from calling again, displaying a message that said, “You’ve maxed out the amount of times you can call this number.”…