Bathroom or death trap? Image via Shutterstock.
Here’s a scary scenario: It’s Friday night, you’re working late in the office, all alone. Suddenly, you need to go to the bathroom. You jolt to the restroom, taking nothing with you, only to discover that, while you were in there, a night janitor has locked the bathroom door from the outside. Nightmare!
Well, that nightmare became a reality for Karen Perrin—a Clinton, Md. resident who works in a downtown D.C. office building. According to Fox 5, Perrin was working in the office until 10 p.m. last Friday when she began packing up to go home for the weekend and then went to the restroom, leaving all of her belongings—including her cell phone—at her desk. But when she tried to leave, the restroom door was locked.
Panicked, Perrin “used a chair in the restroom to dismantle the lock on the door, ramming it, kicking the chair.” After that broke off, she apparently used it as a tool to “chisel a hole in the wall next to the door,” through which she was able to stick her hand through to unlock the door from the outside. That’s some MacGuyver shit right there.
The whole ordeal lasted eight hours, during which she tried to get the attention of security cameras by slipping paper towels under the door. She also apparently tried to chisel a small hole in the wall to the men’s room, but ran into a barrier, and her hand “was bloody [trying] to scratch her way out.”
Lesson learned: Always bring a working cell phone to the bathroom with you.
