I agree.
Every source I found for this story was essentially the same. Usually word-for-word.
Real journalism would involve a little digging into the story. No interview with the old lady or the firemen who rescued her, or the neighbours who made the strange decision to start a petition about the noise.
It smells like a story that would go away if a little bit of fact-checking was done.
Damn, how hot is your water?
Is this (specific detail of the story) funny? Am I allowed to laugh at this? Because, just between you and me, I think this is a little bit funny.
Terrible thing to happen, glad she’s okay, poor lady etc. but…
Where is lieu when you need him?
But coming soon to a theater near you, from the director of Das Boot, Betty White in 480 HOURS.
In case one does, I certainly wouldn’t want to be the one insulting her on a message board. 
…twice on the pipes means ‘No’ ? 
To clarify, when banging on something like a pipe, you distinguish between shorts and longs by varying the pauses between bangs:
BANG BANG BANG (three times rapidly)
<brief pause>
BANG…BANG…BANG (three times slowly)
<brief pause>
BANG BANG BANG (three times rapidly)
However, I wouldn’t be surprised if nobody ever responded, even to this. Most people are incurious idiots.
After a day or so, (assuming I couldn’t break down a door or wall) I’d also try the flooding idea.
Nice. I was actually thinking that too.
The article says the lock jammed. Maybe the mice learned how to open the door.
(I guess she might not have locked it herself, but it’s more funny if you pretend she did).
“In came old Mrs Mason,
She was in a hurry so she used the basin.
The same basin that I wash me face in,
And nobody knew she was there.”
Yeah, I’d find a way out of that room, one way or another. As for bashing through drywall, if it was an old building, it might be more of a plaster-and-lath situation. Still doable, but a PITA without a pry bar.
Or it could be a bricks-and-mortar situation, in which case, no chance.
Yeah, good luck breaking through brick with a toilet seat!
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