It could be worse

A story I just had to show Viggie:
http://www.kikarhashabat.co.il/%D7%91%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%9C-%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A7-%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%A7%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A5-%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%94-3.html

The story, for my English reading readers:

Police were called to an apartment in Petach Tikva by neighbors who heard hysterical screaming. When they knocked on the door of the apartment, the tenant, a woman, refused to open the door, and threatened to jump from the window. This is on the third floor.

Police called in the firefighters, who put up a ladder and climbed up to physically prevent the woman from jumping.

In the meantime, police standing outside the door and talking to the woman figure out the problem: she had been planning to leave the house, when she saw a cockroach in the stairwell. So she ran back in, locked the door, and started screaming.

She told them she'd jump out the window if they didn't kill the cockroach. They actually did find and kill the cockroach, but she didn't believe them, so they took a picture of the dead cockroach with their cell phones and sent her the picture to her cell phone, at which point she agreed to open the door.

All this as reported by Galei Tzahal (the army radio station).

I should feel terrible for the woman involved, and I do, I really do, at least when I'm able to stop smiling. This is such a great story. The police were great, the firefighters were great, the part where cell phone internet access may have saved a life is great, and most great of all is the part where Viggie sees that there are people out there who fear cockroaches even more than I do (I would never involve the police or threaten to jump out the window! I would just call him at work and demand that he come home and squish it.).