An odd Mickey Spillane -- he of the Hemingway "who?" -- rhetoric attends this British journalism. Perhaps a cautionary tale for Mike, perhaps a short story submitted by accident, perhaps a period ends a sentence. -EY
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1121104/Youre-hostage-fix-washing-machine-How-desperate-grandmother-took-action-repair-man.html?987'You're my hostage until you fix my washing machine': How one desperate grandmother took action against repair man
By Paul SimsIt is the sort of exasperation we have all felt in the face of poor service and officialdom.
But Tracey Fox wasn't prepared to play the poor helpless housewife.
After surviving without her washing machine for three weeks and a string of failed repair attempts, she took the law into her own hands. . . and kidnapped the engineer.
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