Usually, having to call for a check-up on an elderly family member is a terrifying experience. But last week, a police stop on a 91-year-old Ohio woman led to a surprisingly amusing discovery: The woman had missed several phone calls and the sound of cops banging on the door because she was really, really locked into the games.
The unnamed elderly player was found in the area last Thursday in Westlake, Ohio, according to a report from News 5 Cleveland (THANKS, GamesRadar). She had signed up for a city program called Are You Okay? whereby elderly residents can receive a daily check-in call via telephone. When she didn’t answer her daily call, dispatchers and the woman’s daughter called her to follow up, but she still didn’t answer. Things became particularly worrying when police were sent to her house and she didn’t open the door for them either.
But when police entered her home using a door code, they discovered she was completely fine and was just hanging out in her room “trying to break her record” at a game.
“Everyone had a good laugh about it,” Westlake Police Capt. Jerry Vogel told News 5 Cleveland.
Vogel said the woman was grateful to have checked in on her (although I can only hope they didn’t interrupt her recording attempt, which was apparently very important).
Unfortunately for us, the report doesn’t specify which game she was so immersed in. It’s easy to assume she was busy playing. Crushed candy or something casual, but you never know. She might as well be the next aging gaming phenom to join the ranks of the 91 years old who beat Resident Evil Requiem without help and the 95-year-old legally blind grandmother who’s kind of a beast in the FPS training program Aimlabs.
