The candidacy of 67-year-old pensioner Zdenka Novotná in the Prague-Petrovice district would not interest anyone under normal circumstances. Servers iDnes.cz but manages to find out that this is the main character of the now legendary TV report about a woman who spends the night in the forest trapped under the roots of a tree.
“I set up ODS in the village. It’s been almost thirty years,” said Novotná, who is running for the party from ninth place.
“What I mean is that people feel comfortable here, that something is happening here. We have to help each other. The older have to pass knowledge on to the younger ones. “Nothing learns has fallen from the sky,” he explained to his motivational server. to devote himself to city politics.
Thanks to fame, he was able to get more than one preferential vote. He said people still recognize him every now and then. “My husband and I came into the shop, stood in line at the cashier, and a young man came in: ‘Are you a midwife?’ Sometimes you laugh at it, sometimes it annoys you,” he said.
He lost his speech in shock
TV report New rooted under the name “Grandma under the Root”. And as soon as it was broadcast, it quickly went viral. It describes an event that took place in ídelov in Jihlavsk in 2012, where Novotná was on vacation with his friends. At night, he goes for a walk in the forest, where his foot slips and falls under the roots of a tree. He also lost his words in shock and was therefore unable to call for help, even though his friends were only about 50 meters away. He ended up spending the whole night in the forest.
Novotná claims that people associate the report with his name to this day. “One should never experience such an unfortunate event,” he said in an interview. He added that the whole incident affected his health.
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Today he denies that he or his friends were drunk at the time. He said he was helped through the night by remembering the soldiers of the First World War who survived the harsh conditions in the trenches. In the video, he also describes being warmed by his own urine at night.
The woman was found and rescued by her friends only the next day, but after the arrival of television cameras, she crawled under the suspected roots again to show the situation. Likewise, his friends played tapes of his failed search.
However, Zdeňka Novotná retains vivid memories of the event. “I still hide the things I did that night,” he admits to iDnes.cz.
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