April 1, 1999 UNREAL NEWS Over The Edge Page 9
Construction Worker Found Living in the Wall

By Manfred Wallden

If you’ve been to
UNBC late at night you
may have heard John

the walls.

Most people lit
thought of it i A - i |
as the build- e
ing settling"

but Maria Montegrantus

became worried when
she thought she heard
the strains of Andrew
Lloyd Webber's
“Phantom of the Opera.”

“| was working late in
the Wintergarden and
fell asleep on top of my
books,” said Ms.
Montegrantus, “I woke
up at about 4am to the
main theme of
Phantom. i started to
call out and heard,
above the faint music,
the words help.”

Ms. Montegrantus fol-
lowed the faint cries for
help and realized that
they had originated from
behind the display case
that backs onto the

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After discovering that
the cries of help were

active,
exhausted imagination,

extremely

she went down to
UNBC Security and
reported her findings. “I
decided that | couldn’t
move the cabinet alone,
and thought, well |

should find someone
that can help me,” Ms.
Montegrantus explained
after the incident.
“When she told us that
there was someone
trapped behind the dis-

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play case, we thought it
was a Ping-Pong player,
they’re always chasing
that little white ball into
trouble,” said the securi-
ty person who was first
on the scene.

Security and Ms.
Montegrantus stayed all
night with Mr. Handy,
until Facilities opened in
the morning and work-
ers could begin the res-

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cue process. Facilities
personnel worked
through the day to free
Mr. Handy.

“1 couldn’t believe it
took 4 days to free me,”
said Handy, “I was just
doing some_ routine
repairs and went behind
the cabinet to retrieve
some air hockey pucks,
those things are worse
than Ping-Pong balls,

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when | bent over | real-
ized that | couldn’t come
up. | was stuck. To past
the time |! started
singing show tunes, and
was on to the Phantom
when Maria found me.’

Authorities are investi-
gating how a person
could be trapped in the
Wintergarden, singing
for 4 days, without any-
one noticing.