# Woman saved by message on bathroom wall. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-saved-by-message-on-bathroom-wall/105252 "2002-04-24T00:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-saved-by-message-on-bathroom-wall/105252/21 "2002-04-25T01:19:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yanceylebeef \* > \*\*Alrighty, I’ll submit this again… > Wasn’t this a plot line on C.S.I. lst season? > If so, the truth is indeed stranger than fiction. > If not, then I’m having a really wierd attack of Deja Vu. \*\* I haven’t seen this episode of C.S.I., but if indeed it was a plot-line last season, it may well be that programme which has indirectly saved this woman’s life by giving her the idea of writing on toilet walls in the first place. Lest that sound far-fetched, the only reason my daughters know to kick out a cars tail-lights if they are ever bundled into someone’s boot (trunk), is because I once saw this on a TV show. A motorist who sees a foot sticking out where the tail-lights should be will most likely call the police. It’s not something which would have occured to me had I not seen that show. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-saved-by-message-on-bathroom-wall/105252/22 "2002-04-25T01:51:58Z")
i’m with you on that one, reprise. i heard about the tail light thing on oprah. until all car’s come with latches that can be opened from the inside, all kids should know how to kick out tail lights. the guy on oprah also mentioned that if you can’t kick out the tail light due to being tied up try pulling on the wires to disconnect. police stop people with lights out. re: her hair. i thought it either a wig or a recent dye job. perhaps she felt the need to have a bit of a disguise for protection. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-saved-by-message-on-bathroom-wall/105252/23 "2002-05-11T07:31:13Z")
I thought I’d revive this thread with some new information… [She made it all up.](http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/11/truck.captive.ap/index.html) > [@](#): > > The woman’s story began to unravel soon after Jones’ arrest as witnesses started coming forward saying they saw Pate without Jones just days prior to his arrest. Jones told Bobbitt that Pate could have left him at any time. > > The lead investigator, sheriff’s Sgt. Gerald Frazier, said a worker at the battered women’s shelter where Pate is staying told him she had witnessed Pate beating herself with a hair dryer. He also said Pate’s family members told him she was prone to beating herself. You’ve got a sharp eye, **Wring**. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-saved-by-message-on-bathroom-wall/105252/24 "2002-05-11T07:41:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rocking chair \* > \*\*i’m with you on that one, reprise. i heard about the tail light thing on oprah. until all car’s come with latches that can be opened from the inside, all kids should know how to kick out tail lights. the guy on oprah also mentioned that if you can’t kick out the tail light due to being tied up try pulling on the wires to disconnect. police stop people with lights out. > > \*\* Unfortunately, that scene in whatever movie you saw is taking a bit of literary license there… A huge majority of the cars today have enclosed trunks (boots to you UK people), where the taillight assembly has screws that extend into the trunk area through a small hole, then is secured by a plastic wingnut or nut. No way to fit a foot through there. Of course, the light being cracked **may** call _some_ attention to it, but probably not the amount of attention someone being trapped in a trunk would like. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-saved-by-message-on-bathroom-wall/105252.md?page=1)