Her husband rushed to open the top and she burst into the air gasping for breath.Ī neighbor watching the activity on the backyard deck might wonder how a hazel-eyed suburban mom with three children and red toenails became Alexanderia the Great in less than a year.ĭonna and Bill said they wanted the old challenge of mastering and then improving a famous escape. Out of breath after about two minutes, Purnell frantically tapped her hands on the tank.
With eyes squeezed shut, she pushed her hands through holes in the tank's top and fumbled to pick a lock so she could get free.
On a perfect autumn morning, Donna Purnell struggled to escape from a locked, water-filled glass tank less than half the size of a phone booth on the deck of her Medway home.įor just the second time, she was attempting an escape from a sealed cell the legendary Harry Houdini made famous as "Chinese Water Torture" that she plans to use in her new career as the escape artist called Alexanderia the Great.Īs her husband, Bill Purnell, filmed her, she used a bobby pin to pick the locks on a pair of vintage handcuffs.
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