Salt Lake woman chews electrical cord to escape kidnapping
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A 27-year-old woman escaped a kidnapping situation by chewing through an electrical cord, Salt Lake City police reported Wednesday.
Police said the woman's boyfriend on Tuesday knocked her unconscious and then tied her with a standard electrical cord to a chest of drawers.
When she came to, she used her teeth, chewed through the cord and fled to a neighbor's home where she called police.
Police arrested her 32-year-old boyfriend on suspicion of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault and outstanding warrants.
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