Serial Moaning

This is awesome:

Paris woman trapped for 20 days in bathroom [BBC].

This poor old dear of 69 got stuck in her bathroom when the lock jammed. With no phone or any other way of alerting anyone, she began banging on the pipes in the hope that the sound would travel to neighbours.

Travel it did. And the neighbours' response? Complain about the noise. Yes, that's right, their first instinct when confronted with an unusual tapping noise on the pipes in the dead of night is to start a petition get it stopped, rather than to actually go and find out what the problem was in the first place. I'd make some joke about the french complaining about everything, but I know full well the same thing would have happened in this country. Thankfully, they soon realised they'd not seen her for days and called the authorities who sent in a crew to rescue her... in what seems to be the nick of time, as she'd been living on nothing but water for over two weeks.