Bank of America employees in California forgot that Marian Prescher, a 73 year-old diabetic woman, was looking her through her safe deposit box when they closed the bank last Friday. Prescher did not expect to be in the bank long, and had not taken her diabetes medication. Sometime between 6pm and midnight – when she was discovered by a cleaning woman and taken to a hospital – she passed out, bruising her right cheek when she hit the floor.

From the AP:

Prescher said she knew nothing about what happened until hospital employees revived her.

“And I was just, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,'” she said. “I just couldn’t believe it, that they would leave me in there.”

Bank of America is investigating the incident.

73-year-old SoCal woman accidentally left locked in bank [AP]
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