As long as Janet Faal has a pulse, it looks like anybody who wants to see her will have to go to her house.
According to the Daily Mail, the 57-year-old agoraphobic grandmother recently decided to leave her home for just the third time in 10 years and wound up with two black eyes and a broken leg after she fell into an exposed manhole.
Agoraphobia is the fear of being in “situations where escape might be difficult, or help wouldn’t be available if things went wrong.”
As part of Faal’s rehabilitation for her condition, she recently went out with a friend in Crawley, West Sussex. A wooden pallet was in the way of her friend’s car when she tried to back out of a parking space, so Faal decided to move it.
“I took a step over,” Faal said. “Never in my life did I think there was a hole underneath. I thought it had just fallen over. The next thing I remember is the pain. It was awful.
Faal had to wait in the manhole in what had to be severe mental and physical pain for over an hour before paramedics arrived on the scene to treat her. She fears that she may never leave her house again, and unless AC/DC returns to melt faces at Coachella again next year, we don’t blame her.
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