(69 year old) Frenchwoman stuck in bathroom for three weeks

[Turborama]

Source: AFP

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 Tuesday.


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.

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[Skittles]

1. I'm wondering

why she locked the bathroom door if she was alone

[mackerel]

2. Habit?

[Skittles]

4. I live alone and lock my apt doors by habit

but never the bathroom door; it just strikes me as odd, but perhaps she was trying to be extra careful

[14thColony]

5. European door handles can be tricky like that

I locked myself OUT of my kitchen this way, even though that door doesn't even have a lock. The handle got so loose it came off in my hand when I tried to turn the latch. I had to go to the neighbors to borrow tools to dismantle the entire mechanism to get back in. Had I been on the other side of the door I'd have been in the same situation as her. I've also seen bathroom door bolts that were so loose they'd just fall into place if you closed the door too hard.

[boppers]

3. "launched a petition to find out who it was and have it stopped"

How very stereotypical.

[Festivito]

6. Oh, dear, what can the matter be, seven old ladies got stuck in the lava'trie.

The first old lady was Jennifer Primm, she went in on a personal whim, and then she got stuck between the bowl and the rim, and nobody knew she was there.

The second old lady was old Mrs. Humphrey, she went in and made herself comfy, when she tried to get up she couldn't get her bum free, and nobody knew she was there.

Could not resist.

[Anakin Skywalker]

7. Ha Ha Ha! You Good! :-)