Man trapped in club washroom four days

ABERDEEN, Scotland, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A 55-year-old retired Scottish bachelor spent four days trapped in a cold men's washroom at an Aberdeen lawn bowling club because no one knew he was missing.

David Leggat was trapped last week at the Kittybrewster and Woodside Bowling Club when he entered the washroom and the outer door handle fell off, which jammed the inner handle, the Daily Telegraph said.

He credited survival training he took years ago for using hot water to keep his feet warm in the unheated washroom during the cold nights, the report said. He said he only had eight hours of daylight per day at the back of the club, which is all but deserted during the winter.

He had no mobile phone, and the windows were too small to break and climb through, he said.

Finally, a cleaning woman heard him shouting, and club secretary Bob Ewing freed him, which Ewing said was sheer luck.

"Nobody had been looking for David," he said. "A wife may have wondered where he was, but he's not married."

As for Leggat, he was philosophical.

"The only thing I regret is not getting trapped behind the bar," he said.