Switzerland - It’s Not Just Chocolate

Probably the most famous thing about Switzerland, after the chocolate, of course, is the legendary numbered Swiss bank account. This is the stuff of legends. The fabled numbered accounts are rumored, or have been proven, to hold countless treasures. Stolen art, stolen gold, ill gotten gains, bribes and payoffs - and all that just from Yasser Arafat. The picture of Dorian Gray Dick Clark that does all his aging for him, Michael Jackson's real nose, JFK's black book, grandmothers.

Ok, we made a few of those things up. At least we think we did. But not the grandmother thing.

ZURICH, Switzerland - An 85-year-old woman was found in the vault of a Swiss bank when she set off motion detectors hours after the bank was already closed, according to a statement released Wednesday.

Employees at the Zuercher Kantonalbank apparently forgot about the woman.

The director of the bank's safe allowed the woman into the vault on Monday before closing it punctually at 4:30 p.m. local time — with the woman still deep in study of her documents, ZKB said.

She remained so still that she initially failed to activate either the motion detector or the attached camera, the bank said in confirming a report that appeared in the Zurich-based daily "Tages-Anzeiger."

They finally got her out after four hours locked in the vault. Then they gave her some really handsome compensation for her ordeal.

A bouquet of flowers.

Boy, those Swiss are so tight they squeak.