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01-20-2009, 09:26 AM
Tuesday, January 20 2009, 01:38 GMT
By Alex Fletcher, Entertainment Reporter
A woman held a washing machine repair man hostage after he failed to fix her household appliance.
Tracey Fox, 42, of County Durham, said that she would not let the engineer leave unless he resolved her problem following a month of failed attempts to get the machine fixed.
"When the engineer did eventually turn up he just took a quick look around and said the problem was a twopence piece which had become stuck," the mother-of-two told the Sunday Sun.
"He didn't replace the parts the other engineer had said needed replacing. He wasn't even going to attempt to fix it. I'm not proud of myself but I decided that I wasn't going to let him out of the house. I told him he might as well dial 999 now because he wasn't going to leave the house until my washer was sorted out.
"I locked all the doors and wouldn't let him out. He then phoned his manager and I think the manager must have called the police. The police did eventually turn up but I had relented by that stage and had freed him."
Currys has now given her a new washing machine.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/a143566/woman-holds-engineer-hostage-in-home.html
By Alex Fletcher, Entertainment Reporter
A woman held a washing machine repair man hostage after he failed to fix her household appliance.
Tracey Fox, 42, of County Durham, said that she would not let the engineer leave unless he resolved her problem following a month of failed attempts to get the machine fixed.
"When the engineer did eventually turn up he just took a quick look around and said the problem was a twopence piece which had become stuck," the mother-of-two told the Sunday Sun.
"He didn't replace the parts the other engineer had said needed replacing. He wasn't even going to attempt to fix it. I'm not proud of myself but I decided that I wasn't going to let him out of the house. I told him he might as well dial 999 now because he wasn't going to leave the house until my washer was sorted out.
"I locked all the doors and wouldn't let him out. He then phoned his manager and I think the manager must have called the police. The police did eventually turn up but I had relented by that stage and had freed him."
Currys has now given her a new washing machine.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/a143566/woman-holds-engineer-hostage-in-home.html