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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:39 pm 
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Paris woman trapped for 20 days in bathroom The trapped woman survived on nothing but warm water for 20 days An elderly woman has survived being trapped in her bathroom in Paris for 20 days, after the door lock jammed.

The room had no window or phone so the 69-year-old was unable to tell anyone but she tapped on pipes during the night, hoping to alert her neighbours.

They thought the noise was DIY work and started a petition to have it stopped.

But a few people realised they had not seen the pensioner recently and called the authorities, who sent in a rescue crew.

Firefighters broke into her second-floor flat in Epinay-sous-Senart and reportedly found her lying on the ground in the bathroom, in a "very weakened" state.

The woman, who has not been named, had survived on warm tap water for almost three weeks.

She is now recovering in hospital.

"You could hear banging sounds, like a hammer, even at night," one neighbour told local media. "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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That's so sad. No one thought to check on her or anything and she was only found after people started complaining about noise.
Poor old lady. I hope something nice happens in her life to balance out those miserable 20 days.

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Strange. If they could hear banging on pipes, I don't understand why they wouldn't have been able to hear yelling for help.

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A well insulated flat will muffle the yelling noise, and being an old person, she may not have been able to yell very loud. Banging on the pipes will carry throughout a small to moderate sized building, and will cover a reasonable area in a large or even very large building.

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Probably an old Parisian apartment, with real plaster and stuff. None of this drywall crap! Sounds would carry down the pipes, though, I could see it.

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It's pretty strange and sad what old age can do to you. I mean, realistically, I'd be trapped in the bathroom for about 20 seconds. I've yet to see a bathroom door I couldn't break easily. Hell, in a couple of hours, I could tear out a wall.


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Seven old ladies were locked in the lava'try,
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