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A student took matters into her own hands when her Ford Fiesta was stolen from outside her home - by using an Apple AirTag to track it down herself and documenting the journey on . <br>Zoë Pettit, 22, was horrified when she woke up for an early gym session and realised her car was missing from the street where it was parked in Selly Oak, , last week.<br>Helpfully she had tucked an Apple AirTag, a tracking device that can be traced via phone, into the lining of her boot after fellow students advised her about a spate of car thefts in the area.<br>So when the business student discovered her car had been stolen, she and two university friends set on a mission to find it - and were successful within a matter of hours despite police reportedly failing to have any luck. <br> Zoë Originally from Norwich, Norfolk, explained: 'Every morning I just double check it's there because you see quite a few posts from people saying their car was stolen overnight.<br>'I looked up the road and  [https://evigetir.com/Evden-Eve-Nakliyat-fi-om eVDeN EvE naKliyAt] I thought I was going crazy because I couldn't see it.'<br>                Her car was missing from the street where it was parked in Selly Oak, Birmingham, last week<br>Panicking, University of Birmingham student Zoë searched the surrounding streets, questioning if she had perhaps parked it somewhere different and it had slipped her mind.<br>But she couldn't see it anywhere.<br>'I went onto my phone and checked the AirTag - and I see that it's seven miles away from where I am,' she said.<br>Zoë continued: 'I ran back to my house and I was like 'girls, my car has been stolen'.<br><br>I was quite frantic.<br>'We rang the police, and in all fairness to them they were very helpful.<br>'They assigned someone straight away and there was an officer driving to where the AirTag was.'<br>As the tag showed the car was moving, a cop reportedly tried to track it down for a few hours but couldn't see it.<br>In the end police gave up the search, she says, leaving Zoë with no choice but to accept defeat and report it as stolen to her insurance provider.<br>         Zoë decided to take matters into her own hands - against the advice of her parents<br>         She used her Apple AirTag, a tracking device that can be traced via phone,  [https://images.sla-portals.co.uk/http://211.45.131.206/?a%5B%5D=%3Ca+href%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fevigetir.com%2FEvden-Eve-Nakliyat-ir-sk%3EEvdeN+eve+nAKliYAt%3C%2Fa%3E%3Cmeta+http-equiv%3Drefresh+content%3D0%3Burl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fevigetir.com%2FEvden-Eve-Nakliyat-gt-fr+%2F%3E EvdeN eve nAKliYAt] to pin down the car's whereabouts<br>She said: 'The police were really helpful and did as much as they could.<br><br>It was about midday at this point, and I found out at nine o'clock my car had been stolen.<br>'My dad was getting ready to call up my insurance company and tell them it was stolen at this point basically.<br>'A couple of my housemates came home from their morning lectures, and one of the girls said that she had got her car with her - so why didn't we just go and  EVdEN eVE nakliYAt try to find it?'<br>She added: 'My parents were like 'do not drive to the AirTag, whatever you do.<br><br>Just leave it'.'<br>However, the girls went anyway, driving half an hour to Saltley, an inner-city area to the east of Birmingham.<br>She said: 'At first we couldn't find it, we drove around for about 20 minutes and I was just [https://www.fool.com/search/solr.aspx?q=thinking thinking] this is bizarre.<br>'In the end I just thought it's not there, maybe they chucked the AirTag out of the car, let's go.'<br>But a chance left turning as they were leaving the estate led the girls right to the missing white Ford - although its plates had been changed.<br>'I pressed my car key and it unlocked, I freaked out.<br><br>I was like 'Oh my God it's my car!'<br>         The student could not believe it when she spotted her car - though the registration plate had been changed<br>         The friends celebrated with a McDonald's on the way back home <br>Zoë says she called the police who came to assess the situation as the car was close to a residential driveway.<br>Detectives reportedly said it was safe and the girls were allowed to take the car back - celebrating with a McDonald's on the way home.<br>Zoë said her beloved first car 'sustained a few injuries', as thieves had cut her steering wheel to remove the steering lock - and stunk it out by smoking drugs inside.<br>But she added that she was 'chuffed' to have her car back - although she does feel 'uncomfortable' knowing that a stranger was driving it around.<br>Zoë said West Midlands Police are currently investigating the crime.<br>A spokesman for the force told MailOnline: 'We were called on 31 January after a white Ford Fiesta was stolen in Birmingham. Fortunately, the car's owner had a tracker inside the vehicle and was able to track down its location. <br>'The car had appeared to be in a location in Birmingham, but when officers attended, it was no longer there. <br>'Subsequently a different location was identified by the owner, who went there herself and took back her car. <br>'Officers supported her in recovering the vehicle and are continuing to investigate the theft and identify suspects.<br><br>Anyone with information can call 101 or use Live Chat on our website quoting crime number 20/13098/23. 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