woman stuck in bathroom for 3 weeks

[papapepper]

An elderly French woman who was trapped in her bathroom for three weeks has finally been rescued, media reports said.

The 69-year-old grandmother got stuck in her Paris bathroom when the door lock broke, Agence France-Presse reported.

Firefighters broke into her home and freed her on Friday after a neighbor noticed that she had not picked up her mail in weeks and called the police.
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Authorities said the woman survived by drinking tap water and was in a "very weakened" state when she was found, according to the reports.

"She was badly malnourished and in a state of shock and has been taken to hospital to recover from her ordeal," a police spokeswoman said Tuesday.
There was no way out of her windowless bathroom so she banged on the pipes in hopes that her neighbors would hear her.

But instead they thought it was noisy workmen and started a petition to stop it.

"You could hear banging sounds, like a hammer, even at night," a neighbor
told local media according to the BBC.

"But we thought they were doing work at night. We said: 'They are going too far! They are preventing us from sleeping!' If we had known..."

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[ELVIS]

i lol'd a little.

god bless.

[Captain Crawfish]

she defiantely needs a panic button to wear around her neck.

[The King]

Sung to the theme song of the TV series "Branded", starring Chuck Conners:


.....stranded, stranded, stranded on a toilet bowl.....

.....what can you do when you're stranded, and you can't find a roll....

[papapepper]

Wonder if they will put her on the show "I survived" on animal planet.....

[Blame Canada]

I wonder what she ate?

[Cannon88]

I would have to have a "discussion" with those neighbors.

[Gear_Jammer]

At least she had a toilet to use!

[yellowstang]

Stupid French!

[Nash B.]

Why would she lock the door if she's all alone? Heck, why would she even shut the door?

[SlowLX]

Haha What's worse aren't most french shitters in a closet by themselves?

[Denny]

Reminds me of a time when I was working Emergency Services at Texas Instruments. Some contractors were working on the elevator that required working in the pit under the actual elevator. The elevator was not properly locked out and fell on one of the guys while he was working alone. He was alive for a while and just screaming away. I was told that you could hear from the elevator lobbies on every floor. People thought he was just stuck and told him things like, "Shut up, we'll get someone to get you out." I guess everyone also assumed that someone else called or that if he was in the elevator that he hit the emergency button. The body was discovered by the other employee when he returned.

[Denny]

Why would she lock the door if she's all alone? Heck, why would she even shut the door?

Have you ever smelled French shit? I would hope the door stays closed.

[Nash B.]

But there was nobody else there to smell it

Reminds me of a time when I was working Emergency Services at Texas Instruments. Some contractors were working on the elevator that required working in the pit under the actual elevator. The elevator was not properly locked out and fell on one of the guys while he was working alone. He was alive for a while and just screaming away. I was told that you could hear from the elevator lobbies on every floor. People thought he was just stuck and told him things like, "Shut up, we'll get someone to get you out." I guess everyone also assumed that someone else called or that if he was in the elevator that he hit the emergency button. The body was discovered by the other employee when he returned.

That's terrible

[slow06]

At least she had a toilet to use!

Where'd you get that logo, did you just Google it or something?