As of: March 1, 2024, 5:07 a.m
By: Joshua Eibl
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A 14-year-old from Lower Franconia experiences a real adventure.
Instead of Pforzheim, he ends up in Berlin and is lucky to meet a helpful taxi driver.
Kitzingen – 14-year-old Lenny from the Astheim district of Volkach in the Kitzingen district actually just wanted to visit his father.
The journey from Würzburg to Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg was only supposed to take a few hours, but it turned into the journey of a lifetime.
Far from home: boy stranded in Berlin
Lenny is supposed to complete the three and a half hour journey with the Flixbus; his father buys the ticket online.
But he makes a fatal mistake - he accidentally books a ticket for a completely different route.
In Würzburg, Lenny gets on the bus unsuspectingly.
But he quickly realizes that something is wrong.
The 14-year-old tries to talk to the bus driver.
“But he couldn’t speak German,” he told
BR24
.
Using a translation program, a traveler helped him and revealed to him that he was going to Berlin.
650 kilometers from his actual destination, Lenny finally ended up at the Charlottenburg bus station.
When he called home, his mother's alarm bells rang and she quickly decided to pick him up in Berlin by car.
Her son should take a taxi to Berlin Central Station to meet her there.
Unexpected adventure for a 14-year-old from Lower Franconia.
(Symbolic image) © Lino Mirgeler/dpa
Rescue is approaching: Taxi driver doesn't want to leave young people alone in Berlin
But then the family is lucky that Lenny gets into the taxi from Mashid Aso Dolay.
The native Iranian doesn't like the plan at all: a 14-year-old alone at Berlin Central Station at night?
After consulting with Lenny's mother, they decide that it would be better if Lenny stayed in the taxi for now.
What the driver didn't know was that Mama Andrea would be on the road for around five hours.
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“He thought I came from Potsdam or something.
And then I said, no, Würzburg,” mother Andrea told
BR24
about one of the phone calls with the taxi driver.
“And then he said, ‘Shit.
Crap.'
He can't leave this boy sitting at the train station." That's why he takes Lenny with him in the taxi and they go on a city tour together until Andrea arrives in Berlin.
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It is now shortly before midnight when the two adults make a decision.
In order to make the waiting time a little more bearable, the Berlin taxi driver decides to drive towards the mother.
On the highway near Potsdam, mother Andrea can hug her son again.
She is eternally grateful to the taxi driver.
“He simply wanted Lenny to be well and gave me this security throughout the journey: Your son is doing well with me.” (
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