When a senior looks back on his or her life to assess their triumphs and regrets, “not getting arrested” typically falls into the former category. But according to the BBC, a 99-year-old woman in the Netherlands wished she had spent time in the slammer. To help her achieve this unconventional bucket list dream, law officers let the woman, named Annie, hang out in a jail cell—with handcuffs on—at the police station in the eastern Dutch town of Nijmegen-Zuid.
Annie has her family to thank for the experience. “Her niece came to us with this request,” a police officer told the BBC. “When she was reporting a crime, she told the police officer about Annie’s ‘bucket list.'”
“You get many unusual requests with this profession,” he added. “We thought it would be nice to do something special for Annie.”
As you can see in the photos above, Annie’s brush with the law was a blast. However, she isn’t the only senior who has wondered what life is like behind bars. Last year, a 102-year-old woman named Edie Simms from St. Louis, Missouri was faux-arrested per her own bucket list request. Police teamed up with a local senior center to make Simms’s dream come true. “She was so excited that she can ride in a police car and she said, ‘Do you think you could put those handcuffs on me?'” Michael Howard, executive director of Five Star Senior Center, told KPLR. Talk about centenarians gone wild!
[h/t BBC]
February 28, 2017 – 2:15pm