Night Deposit

Doris Willis, 87, was checking her safe deposit box at the Washington Mutual Bank in Tacoma, Wash., when the lights in the vault went out and the door slammed shut. “There I sat and I said, Is the bank closed?’,” she remembers. Police went to the bank that night in response to a silent alarm apparently triggered by her unsuccessful search for the light switch, but left when all doors were found to be secure. Fifteen hours later, “when we opened [the vault] we looked inside and we had a customer that was sitting on the chair,” a bank spokesman said. He added the bank “plans to do something nice for her.” (AP) ...I hope he means something in addition to letting her out.