A woman who was trapped in the bathroom for 7 hours managed to escape using a cotton swab.
Dr. Krisztina Ilko, a 33-year-old scholar at Cambridge University, recently had a horrifying experience where she was trapped in a bathroom at the Cambridge University tower for over 7 hours.
Dr. Ilko lives in the Queens College building, which was once the residence of the 16th-century philosopher Erasmus and was built with thick walls and heavy wooden doors.
Since Dr. Ilko was trapped in the bathroom on a Thursday after all university classes had finished, she thought she would be trapped there for five days until someone came to clean the bathroom on Monday.
She didn’t have her cell phone, so she tried knocking on the door and breaking it down with her shoulder, but no one was within the hearing range.
After many attempts, Dr. Ilko, who wondered how many days she could survive with only water, escaped using an idea from the famous series MacGyver.
The idea that Dr. Ilko came up with was to use a cotton swab and an eyeliner.
She used the round part of the cotton swab as a loop and the core of the eyeliner pencil to push the cotton swab into the narrow space inside the lock hole, successfully opening the door and escaping after 7 hours.
Dr. Ilko said, “I got the idea from MacGyver, my childhood idol. We often spread the rumor that Erasmus’s ghost wanders around the campus, and it seems like I almost became one of those ghosts.”
The American TV series MacGyver gained worldwide popularity. The protagonist, MacGyver, uses a Swiss Army knife and surrounding objects to escape and overcome obstacles.
Meanwhile, it is presumed that the bathroom door broke because a plumber who came to repair the bathroom accidentally broke the wooden door latch before Dr. Ilko was trapped.
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