Posted on 11/24/2010 1:11:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
Nocturnal pleas for help were ignored by neighbours, police say
French firefighters freed a 69-year-old woman who spent three weeks trapped in her bathroom and whose nocturnal pleas for help - by tapping on pipes - were ignored by neighbours, police said.
The woman emerged in a "very weakened" state when rescue workers, alerted by neighbours worried because they had not seen her for some time, broke into her home Friday in the Paris suburb of Epinay-sous-Senart to extricate her.
She had got stuck after the bathroom door lock broke.
The woman, who is recuperating in hospital, survived by drinking warm water from the bathroom tap and at night-time tried to call for help by tapping on piping, police said.
But neighbours in the apartment block said they thought someone was doing home repair work and launched a petition to find out who it was and have it stopped.
I guess I’d better knock on the bathroom door occasionally and make sure my daughters aren’t “stuck” in there.
it appears thet she must have lived alone. why the heck did she lock the door?
Wonder how she went to the bathroom.
And/Or maybe pliers. Takes up less space in a drawer.
Who the heck locks the bathroom door when home alone?
Also useful for the heartbreak of irregularity.
That would be...
her own personal Waterloo.
Are you kidding? What kind of a suggestion is that? Don't be ridiculous. She should keep a Porter-Cable reciprocating saw under the vanity. ;-)
Saw that in Turkey, too.
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