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Teen foils a hotel-room intruder by using a trick her cop stepdad taught her

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52% Informative

Josie Bowers , a 19-year-old woman from Canada , shared the story of how she thwarted an intruder when she was 15 .

She went to her hotel room alone to take a shower while her family was on the beach.

After getting out of the shower, she noticed a long wire with a hook at the end wiggling its way out of a crack at the bottom of the front door.

She slammed the door shut and put on the deadbolt.

VR Score

41

Informative language

32

Neutral language

53

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

26

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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