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Elderly Couple Uses Morse Code to Escape Secure Assisted Living Facility
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Posted on 05/01/2021 12:45:03 PM PDT by mylife

An elderly husband and wife duo living in an assisted living facility in Tennessee caused quite a stir last month after busting out of a secure unit using Morse code, The Tennessean reports. The pair, who has not been identified, suffer from dementia and Alzheimer’s and were living in a part of the Lebanon facility with an electronic door lock. But they baffled staffers after vanishing from the premises, leaving employees wondering how they could have possibly gotten past the secure door with an electronic keypad. Documents from the Tennessee Department of Health show that after the couple was found wandering along a nearby road following their escape, the man confessed to staffers that he “previously worked with Morse code in the military” and had simply deciphered the door code by listening closely to the sounds it made when employees used it. The facility was hit with a $2,000 fine as a result of the couple’s getaway, and it has since changed its door codes.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: elderabuse; jail; tennessee
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not exactly morse... but still cool
1 posted on 05/01/2021 12:45:03 PM PDT by mylife
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To: mylife

Yes

Freedom


2 posted on 05/01/2021 12:48:21 PM PDT by Rocko Jack
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To: mylife

Makes the story interesting, but ... no.


3 posted on 05/01/2021 12:48:31 PM PDT by MNnice
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To: mylife

Damn, I wish they wouldn’t have been caught.


4 posted on 05/01/2021 12:49:35 PM PDT by Irenic ( )
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To: mylife

More like phone phreaking, not Morse code. Yes, he may have used his skills to listen to tones, but he wasn’t hearing dits and dahs. Leave it up to the journalists to not know anything.


5 posted on 05/01/2021 12:50:36 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: mylife

Lucky for them they didn’t encounter any cops to rough them up.


6 posted on 05/01/2021 12:53:04 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump won.)
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To: mylife

Many nursing homes have an area behind the locked security door that is worse than death itself.


7 posted on 05/01/2021 12:55:13 PM PDT by politicket (Don't remove a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. It's the only thing holding the car together!)
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To: mylife

I’m glad these criminals are back behind locked doors!


8 posted on 05/01/2021 12:55:15 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: mylife

An elderly husband and wife duo living in an assisted living facility in Tennessee caused quite a stir last month after busting out of a secure unit using Morris code.

The cat helped them out.


9 posted on 05/01/2021 12:55:43 PM PDT by Texas resident (Silver alert: There is a guy running around DC claiming he is the President.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Yep, if the couple used Semaphores, the story would still be used morse code.


10 posted on 05/01/2021 12:56:34 PM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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To: politicket

Well they need secured doors otherwise some old white 78 year old might escape and run around Washington DC claiming that he is the President of the US.

hate when that happens.


11 posted on 05/01/2021 12:56:59 PM PDT by Texas resident (Silver alert: There is a guy running around DC claiming he is the President.)
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To: C210N

What about an Aldis Lamp?


12 posted on 05/01/2021 12:57:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mylife

Doesn’t sound as if the dementia and Alzheimer’s was very bad at all. Maybe their children just didn’t want to deal with them.


13 posted on 05/01/2021 12:59:25 PM PDT by CFW
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To: mylife

I had to laugh when I read this. Many years ago, my mother also escaped from a similar “secure” living area for dementia patients. They never figured out just how she did it, but knowing my mother, we weren’t that surprised. I can still hear her telling them “You can’t keep me here. This is America.” She ended up knocking on the front doors of nearby residences, asking for the “pastor” to help her.


14 posted on 05/01/2021 1:01:14 PM PDT by Kalamata (BIBLE RESEARCH TOOLS: http://bibleresearchtools.com/)
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To: Irenic

I wish they hadn’t told them how they did it


15 posted on 05/01/2021 1:04:11 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: C210N

16 posted on 05/01/2021 1:11:14 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: CFW

On the surface it might appear that way, but having been around a couple of friends and relatives that suffered from dementia or Alzheimer’s it’s strange what they can remember and what they recall at times...

At times I’ve seen people recall every detail from things years or decades in the past but can’t remember conversation you had 5 minutes prior....

I have one relative that the longest conversation you could have with them was 5-10 minutes because they kept repeating themselves and didn’t remember where they went for lunch that day but could tell you very detail descriptions of things that happened 70 years before.....

The really sad part is watching them in late stages sound perfectly lucid but can’t remember their family as if they were total strangers....


17 posted on 05/01/2021 1:12:55 PM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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To: Kalamata

Good on her.


18 posted on 05/01/2021 1:14:13 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: IYAS9YAS

dit-dar-dit!


19 posted on 05/01/2021 1:16:56 PM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: Texas resident

lol!!!!


20 posted on 05/01/2021 1:17:12 PM PDT by Spunky (My husband always said; "The more you stir shit, the more it stinks.)
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