Desperate
to make it to job interview, woman locked in flat tries to escape
through window
May 02, 2007
SHE thought she was going to miss her job interview because the
front door was locked.
Ms Diana Yusof's sister had locked the door and kept the
keys.
So Ms Diana decided to do something bizarre - climb out of her
second-floor flat window using a rope fashioned from three
bedsheets.
She lives in a four-room flat in Tampines Street 22.
But she lost her grip on the 'rope' and landed heavily on her right
foot, fracturing her heel and breaking three toes.
The incident happened last Monday when she was scheduled to go for
a factory-operator job interview.
'We only have one set of keys in the home,' Ms Diana told The New
Paper at Changi General Hospital yesterday.
COULDN'T GET KEYS
Because of an earlier quarrel, her unemployed younger sister, 20,
locked herself in the bedroom with the keys.
Ms Diana, 26, repeatedly knocked on the bedroom door, asking for
the keys.
But when there was no response, she turned to the rope stunt.
According to an earlier report in Berita Harian, she had tied the
'rope' to the window and had stepped onto the air-conditioning
unit's condenser outside the window.
'I didn't care that people were staring at me. I just wanted to get
to the interview so that I would have a new job,' said Ms Diana,
who stopped working as a factory operator a few weeks ago.
But she never made it to the interview.
A passer-by saw her fall and called for the ambulance.
FRACTURED HEEL
Yesterday morning, she underwent surgery to insert a metal plate
and some bone from her hip area into her fractured heel.
Although she was in great pain, she forced herself to take a walk
around the hospital grounds.
'I don't want my muscles to become weak,' said Ms Diana, who is
single and has two other siblings.
Her voice was hoarse from a bad cough. She appeared close to tears
while speaking to us.
This was because whenever she coughs, sharp pain shoots through her
heavily-bandaged foot due to her body movement.
When asked what she intends to do next, she said: 'I will just have
to wait until my leg is well before I can go find a new job.
'I really regret climbing out of that window.'