Pryzm NOT prison! Taxi takes Tipton teen to Category B jail instead of plush new nightclub
"I don't know why on earth he'd think we wanted to go to a prison at 10pm when we're all dressed up."
These pals got more than they bargained for when their cab dropped them off outside a prison - after they asked to be taken to new Birmingham nightclub Pryzm.
Ellie Rogers and friends George Price and Joshua Broadbent, all aged 18, had wanted a night out in a bar - not a night behind bars.
But they were stumped when their bumbling cab driver dropped them off at a Category B men's prison and then kept the meter running until they eventually arrived at the new club's student night.
The group had spent the evening getting glammed up for a night out at plush new Birmingham nightclub Pryzm.
But they ended up at Winson Green Prison - a Victorian jail which featured in TV series Peaky Blinders and where serial killer Fred West was locked up in the 90s.
Ellie, from Farmer Way, Tipton, ordered a cab at around 10pm on Thursday evening from Choice Taxis in Wednesbury.
Ellie said: "When the taxi came the driver asked where we were going, and we said Pryzm - he said he knew where it was, and off he went.
"We were just chatting in the back and not paying much attention to where we were going.
"When we stopped, I said 'oh, we're here already' - and then we noticed we'd pulled up outside Winson Green Prison.
"We were all just completely shocked, and didn't know what to say.
"We were just gobsmacked - we were like, 'is he joking?'
"He said, 'you said you wanted to go to prison', and we were just like 'no we said PRYZM'.
"I guess they do sound similar, but I don't know why on earth he'd think we wanted to go to a prison at 10pm when we're all dressed up.
"We told him the mistake, and when we told him the old name of the club, Gatecrasher, he knew exactly where it was.
"It took another 20 minutes to get to Pryzm on top of the half hour it had already taken - and he kept the meter running the whole time! It cost us £15.
"We thought it was pretty cheeky - but by that stage we just wanted to get on with our night out, so we paid and left.
"I definitely won't be using that taxi company again though.
"We must've been quite a funny sight, all dressed up outside a prison.
"Everyone was laughing when we told them, they couldn't believe it really happened."
