French woman trapped in shop for New Year

[Still Waters]

While most people celebrated New Year's Eve with parties and fireworks one pensioner in northern France spent the night alone in a locked supermarket.

The 73-year-old woman felt faint at the store in Roubaix and went to the toilet. But when she came out later she found the shop deserted and locked up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-20887450

[Urisk]

I take it staff don't know how to check toilets before leaving then? I suppose it's an easy mistake to make though... the supermarket I once worked at, the cleaners found a dead junkie in the gents one morning who'd sneaked in and OD'd the previous night. Needless to say we locked the toilets quite early after that...

[schizoidwoman]

Poor woman!

[AsteroidX]

All the News coming out of France and New Years sounds like they really partied it up. Damn.

[Simbi Laveau]

That's still better than thectime my grandmother got locked inside a cemetery .

My grandma only had one leg too . She lost one to diabetes .

So a 68 year old woman ,all night,in a,cold haunted cemetery .

[wolfknight]

That would suck anytime but really on New Years Eve

[pallidin]

She had free reign of the store, even tried unsuccessfully to sleep in the staff office, but didn't think to pick-up the phone and call police?

Who knows, I suppose, if a phone was even available.

And at 73 and having fainting spells, maybe she couldn't do it anyway. Like someone said, poor woman.

Hope she's OK.