Mum drunk on pink gin orders £4500 Uber to Ukraine in attempt to 'go help them fight'
dailystar.co.ukUkraine to 'help fight Russian troops' but was saved by insufficient funds in her bank account.Leoni Fildes had been out to celebrate her friend's birthday on Saturday (March 5) and had already downed a "few double pink gins and shots of Sambuca" when they began discussing the Russia-Ukraine war.
But it wasn't long before the 34-year-old's liquid confidence found her booking an Uber to 'help' the Ukrainian troops in the conflict.The dog grooming business owner claims she was saved when the trip, which was estimated to cost around £4,578, was declined when she had 'insufficient funds' in her bank account.The mum-of-two, from Worsley, Greater Manchester, claims she had 'flashbacks' of her risky mistake when her bank called her to following morning suspecting fraud as Uber had attempted to charge her account nine timesLeoni said: "I'd gone out with one of my friends in Swinton.
We came up with a conversation about the war in Ukraine. "It was a conversation about the war. My boyfriend's in the military and we were talking about if he had to go. "I said 'if he goes, I'm going with him'.
One too many drinks later, we were trying to get a taxi home. We said 'shall we get a taxi and go help them'. "We'd been out for about four hours so I'd had a few double pink gins and quite a lot of shots of Sambuca and a bottle of prosecco.
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