[News] Dutch basement family

[Isgrimnur]

BBC

A family who spent nine years in a basement "waiting for the end of time" have been discovered by police in the Netherlands after one of them turned up at a local pub, reports say.

A man of 58 and a family with young adults aged 18 to 25 were living at a farm in the province of Drenthe.

They were found after the eldest of the children ordered beer at a bar in the nearby village of Ruinerwold.

He then told staff he needed help, broadcaster RTV Drenthe reported.

The older man, who has been arrested, was initially assumed to be the father, but local mayor Roger de Groot later told reporters that was not the case. Nor was the man the owner of the farmhouse, Mr de Groot said, adding: "I've never seen anything like it."
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Bar owner Chris Westerbeek described how a man had come in, ordered five beers and drunk them.

"Then I had a chat with him and he revealed he had run away and needed help... then we called the police," he said.
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Police in Drenthe confirmed that a 58-year-old man had been arrested and was under investigation after refusing to co-operate.

[Kraken]

Waiting for the end of time is thirsty work.

[hepcat]

I wonder if they had a Dutch Oven.

[Daehawk]

Welp the old man's end of times have come anyways.

[stimpy]

If I ever escape from a basement after 9 years, straight to the pub I go!!

[Drazzil]

If I ever escape from a basement after 9 years, straight to the pub I go!!

Right!?

[Jaymann]

The old man was their Dutch uncle.

[Isgrimnur]

The old man was their Dutch uncle.

Because I had to look it up.

[xwraith]

If I was the bartender I might have started looking if he had a towel...

[em2nought]

I guess the Dutch are getting better at hiding.

[Isgrimnur]

Onbreekbare Kimberly Smit

[Z-Corn]

The old man was their Dutch uncle.

Because I had to look it up.

As a person who has to live among the worst of the modern-day descendants of a wonderful country (where they would no longer be welcome) I am always happy to learn a new slur.