How Facebook video saved student, 25, from kidnapper
A 25-year-old woman is thanking her stars that she paid attention to a video she saw on Facebook.
When Brittany Diggs saw the said video on the social app, little did she know it would turn a life saver shortly after.
According to PEOPLE, the nursing student was, on Tuesday, kidnapped by a gunman who was in desperate need of cash.
The unidentified man reportedly approached Diggs with a gun and demanded money as she was walking to her apartment in Birmingham, UK.
Diggs narrated how she managed her narrow – but intelligent – escape.
She said when she told the man she didn’t have any money, he forced her into her Nissan Altima and told her to drive him to another part of town.
“He was like, ‘Well, since you don’t have any money, you’re going to help me get money,’” she said.
The suspect later told Brittany Diggs to open her car booth and get inside, after he had unsuccessfully tried to rob two couples.
“The kidnapper then found my wallet and demanded my ATM card’s PIN numbers to enable him withdraw cash from ATMs.”
“Every other thing he said was, ‘Or I’m going to kill you,” she recalled.
“My bigger fear was he was gonna drive this car into a river and I’m going to drown here in this booth.”
The suspect later stopped the car at a filling station after he failed to get cash at several ATMs, and that was when the idea of escaping hit Diggs.
She remembered the Facebook video in which it was described how to open a car booth with a latch.
Diggs was able to find the latch in the darkness around her by using her insulin pump and waited for the suspect, who had gotten down to use another machine, to get back into the car.
To her shock, barely had the suspect got back into the car, that he made to get out again. Diggs pulled the latch regardless, and ran for her life.
Her “great escape” was captured on the gas station’s security cameras as she tumbled out of the trunk.
She hid in the gas station’s store, while the owner put a call across to the police. The suspect escaped and was still at large.
Diggs is scared of returning to her apartment as the suspect was still on the loose.
“I try to put it in the back of my head so I can just get through the day, but that was the scariest thing I ever had to deal with,” she said.
“It was just a lot because I’m not from here and I don’t have a support system down here besides my roommate. I just felt like it was a lot.”
