Quiet Voluntary Imprisonment 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
This story from: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34807
Here is an HM and future contender. A woman went into her "rent-a-big-closet" type storage unit with all her household stuff in it. The manager, finding her unit door partially open, locked it - with the woman inside.
Now this kind of things happens all the time. More than one banker has gotten himself/herself locked in the vault, for example.
However, in this case she spent 63 days in the unit. She survived because she had some food and juice along with her other household stuff. This last part is important. She had all of the same kinds stuff most of us have in our houses.
In spite of this, she apparently made no attempt to either escape nor even did she attempt to make noise by which means to attract attention and rescue.
Now consider this. Even a
s l o w
thinker ought to think of **something** in two months! Consider some of the options.
1. Taking a furniture leg or broom and beating out an S.O.S. These storage units are quite inexpensively constructed and the sound would carry.
2. These things have lights, so there was likely electricity. Plug in a TV and crank it up. Remember this is a bunch of normal household stuff.
3. Dismantle the door, or saw though the wall.
4. Any household has at least a screwdriver and a hammer or at least something heavy and something sharp. A hole in a door or wall would suffice in order to watch for, then call out to passers by.
5. With **Two Months**, anyone, even a "mechanically declined" nit-wit should have come up with some way to attract attention or get out.
One must wonder - Did she tip-toe around when she moved about at night so as not to disturb the neighbors? Did she have a battery powered radio or even plug in a radio or TV and keep the sound low so as not to bother anyone?
Full text follows:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34807
A trial has begun in the case of an Alabama woman who sued the company operating a storage facility after she was trapped inside her 10-by-30 unit for 63 days.
Wanda Hudson subsisted on juice and canned food, finally being rescued when a nearby customer heard something inside the unit, the Mobile Register reports.
Emergency-room personnel reported the woman was suffering from "advanced starvation, unusual to find in medical circumstances in America today."
The paper reports Hudson rented the storage unit in October 2001 after her house was foreclosed and she needed somewhere to store her furniture and belongings.
The next month, according to Hudson's attorney, Mallory Mantiply, the manager of the facility found her unit unlocked and partially open, so he locked it. So started Hudson's ordeal inside the storage unit.
Gloria Turner, a former nurse with the hospital Hudson was taken to, testified to the jury this week.
"The first indication I had that something was going on was the smell," Turner told jurors, according to the paper. "She was asking God why he allowed this to happen to her. She was crying almost constantly. ... She was crying, praying, talking, she would go to sleep, wake up, it was a continual process."
Turner says Hudson weighed 85 pounds when she arrived.
Officials of Parkway Storage don't deny the woman spent two months in the unit, but they say Hudson erred by not making more noise.
"There was no yelling, no screaming, no beating on the doors, no nothing," the paper quotes defense attorney Bert Taylor as saying. "No one knew she was in there."
Submitted on 09/27/2003
Submitted by:
Tom
Reference:
www.worldnetdaily.com 9/27/03
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