An elderly woman had to be taken out of a tree after refusing to leave what had become her new ‘home’.
HERE The 81-year-old from Chongqing, China, was first spotted by early morning exercisers.
By this time she had set up a platform to sit on and even had rudimentary cooking facilities
She had also tied flags to the branches for decoration.
In a bid to coax her down firefighters inflated a cushion and placed it at the bottom of the tree.
But after three hours of failing to persuade the woman, several firefighters climbed the tree and forcibly removed her, carting her off to the police station.
The pensioner is not the only person in China who prefers to live in a tree.
In 2010 a 43-year-old man named Du set up a makeshift home in Shijiazhuang.
Surviving on one bun a day, Du made his living collecting plastic bottles
