Teenage girl ’sleepwalks’ up 130ft crane
July 11th, 2005 by kennwenStumbled on something funny….
Teenage girl
’sleepwalks’ up 130ft crane
A teenage sleepwalker has been rescued after being
found asleep at the top of a 130ft crane.
Police were called to Underhill Road, Dulwich,
south east London after a passer-by spotted the 15-year-old girl curled up on top of a concrete
counterweight high above the ground.
The girl, who has not been named, had apparently
managed to climb up the crane and walk across a narrow metal beam while fast asleep.
It
is believed the girl walked unnoticed out of her home near a building site.
Police and
the fire service were called to the scene amid fears she was about to throw herself off but when a
firefighter crawled up the crane he found her sleeping.
The rescue operation took two
and a half hours and the girl was finally brought down in a hydraulic lift at 4am.
A
police spokeswoman said she was taken to hospital for a check-up but was allowed home when she was
found to be unharmed.
Irshaad Ebrhim, of the London Sleep Centre, said he had treated
people who had driven cars and ridden horses whilst asleep.
He said one patient
"even attempted to fly a helicopter".
He said: "Sleepwalking is nothing to
do with dreaming because it occurs in a non-dreaming sleep state."
Sleepwalking
affects one in ten people at least once in their lives.
Most incidents are short and are
not dangerous but it can sometime result in injury.
Source : ITV -
http://www.itv.com/news/index_1342195.html
What’s really
hillarious is this : "even attempted to fly a helicopter" hahahaa…
