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Champ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 04:13 PM
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After Eight Years, Man Takes Elevator to Freedom
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) - A frail 89-year-old Trinidadian man left his apartment for the first time in eight years this week after broken elevators in the government-owned building were finally replaced.



Local newspapers reported Thursday that Randolph Hall had been forced to stay in his eighth-floor apartment for years because he did not have the strength to go up and down so many flights of stairs.


After taking his first ride down the new elevator on Wednesday, accompanied by Trinidadian Housing Minister Keith Rowley, Hall said he was thankful.




http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&ncid=583&e=1&u=/nm/20040618/od_nm/trinidad_elevator_dc
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 04:42 PM
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1. Oh
That is one of the saddest things I've ever heard. That poor man stuck in his apartment for 8 years.
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 05:09 PM
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3. Could have been worse...
he could have been stuck in the elevator for 8 years.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 04:43 PM
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2. How the heck did the man eat? (nt)
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