A Swiss Bank offered an 85-year-old woman a bouquet of flowers after she was left in the vault as the bank closed.
According to a statement released by the Zuercher Kantonalbank on Wednesday the woman was so caught in her thoughts that she initially failed to activate the sensors and employees at the bank apparently forgot about her.
ZKB said, the director of the bank's safe allowed the woman into the vault on Monday before closing it punctually at 4:30 p.m. local time, with the woman still deep in study of her documents.
She remained so still that she even failed to activate either the motion detector or the attached camera, the bank said in confirming a report that appeared in the Zurich-based daily "Tages-Anzeiger."
She was freed from the room four hours after the vault was closed.
The woman was presented a bouquet of flowers by the bank for suffering from the ordeal and said it would decide on further non-financial compensation.
