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An 86-year-old woman was left hanging upside-down in a dark cellar for 27 hours after falling and trapping her leg in a ladder, the Daily Mail reported.

Joan Eaborn fell as she tried to climb down into her cellar through a trapdoor to reach the electricity fuse box after the power was cut to her home in Ipswich, Suffolk.

A friend found Eaborn last Wednesday and she was cut free by firefighters.

"I was just hanging there like a bat," she said last night. "I was like a batwoman! I quickly realized that there wasn't much I could do but to keep positive and try to spread the weight off my trapped leg. I wasn't scared. Worse things have happened in life. I was prepared to hold on for a few more hours at least," she said.

Eaborn is now recovering in hospital from a leg injury and hypothermia.

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老人梯子上倒挂27小时

       英国《每日邮报》消息，一位86岁的老太太在一个黑暗的地窖里不小心摔倒，腿卡在梯子里，被迫倒挂了27个小时。

       这位老人名叫琼•艾博尔，家住英国东部萨福克郡的伊普斯威奇市，事发当天她家里停电，她试图通过地板门爬到地窖里去够保险丝盒，一不小心摔倒。

       艾博尔的朋友上周三发现了她，并叫来消防员救下她。

       “我就像一个蝙蝠似地挂在那里，”她昨晚说到，“我就像蝙蝠女侠! 我迅速意识到我最好什么都不做，就这么呆着，并试图分散我被陷进去的这条腿的重量，我一点也不害怕，我经历过更可怕的事情呢。我已经准备好至少还要这么呆上几个小时。”

       老人腿部受伤，并且体温过低，正在医院接受治疗。

(China.org.cn July 5, 2011)