Can you imagine being stuck in an elevator for three days?

Well that’s what happened to a woman in a suburban Paris housing project last week. The woman, 19 years of age, was found very dehydrated but alive on December 22nd. Newspaper and Television accounts state that the womans father had contacted the building concierge on December 19th when he learned his daughter was missing and suggested that she might be stuck in a broken elevator. However, no alarm had gone off, and they said that a repairman checked the elevators and didn’t find anyone inside.

The repairman began work on the broken elevator the following day, and then returned on the 22nd it was then that he heard a soft cry. On Wednesday, the girl’s father, who had advised police of his daughter’s disappearance, filed a complaint for non-assistance to a person in danger - a crime in France - according to Le Figaro.

Several elevators in the housing project had recently been renovated but not the one in question, according to the news reports. They said that it was unclear why Safiatou did not cry out for help.

Do you enjoy a good cry every now and then? Or are you an emotional person that ends up crying a lot anyway- even if you don’t really want to? Well if you are Germans have admitted what few may have suspected - 70 percent of people canvassed in a survey published this week said that they have cried in the past year, often while watching sad movies.

The survey also found that eighty-eight percent of women respondents said that they have cried recently, according to the poll conducted by the GfK Marktforschung institute. Almost half of their male counterparts answered in the affirmative.

Asked where and why, most said that they have let tears roll at the movies or while watching television. About one-fifth said that they have cried out of anger or frustration and 8 percent admitted having been driven to tears by their lovers.

What made you cry last?