Elderly vendor locks himself inside newspaper stand for 4 days
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An elderly Los Angeles newspaper vendor was freed from his Harvard Heights stand by police on Monday after accidentally locking himself inside for four days.
The unidentified 84-year-old vendor had also been living in the wooden stand, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson told KTLA.
A passerby heard moaning coming from inside the stand Monday afternoon and called authorities, police said. Responding officers cut the stand’s lock and freed the man.
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The vendor was malnourished and dehydrated, police said.
He remained hospitalized as of Tuesday.
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