j.m@talk
10-04-2005, 12:26 PM
She should have chosen her words more carefully
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police stormed into an 80-year-old woman's apartment, startling her in her sleep, after neighbors mistook her protest over a broken elevator as a plea to be rescued.
"The lady had hung up a banner on her balcony saying: 'Help, I am locked up!' and worried residents in the neighborhood called the police," police spokesman Frans van Rijnswou said on Monday.
Pensioner Philomena Priem, who has difficulties walking and lives on the seventh floor in an apartment in the town of Zoetermeer, put up the banner to complain about maintenance work to an elevator that prevented her from coming and going when she wanted.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police stormed into an 80-year-old woman's apartment, startling her in her sleep, after neighbors mistook her protest over a broken elevator as a plea to be rescued.
"The lady had hung up a banner on her balcony saying: 'Help, I am locked up!' and worried residents in the neighborhood called the police," police spokesman Frans van Rijnswou said on Monday.
Pensioner Philomena Priem, who has difficulties walking and lives on the seventh floor in an apartment in the town of Zoetermeer, put up the banner to complain about maintenance work to an elevator that prevented her from coming and going when she wanted.
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