David Willis from Dallas, Texas, was perusing the aisles of Waterstones in Trafalgar Square and had made his way to the upper floor in his search of a good read.
After 15 minutes, he made his way downstairs to notice that the lights had been switched off and the shutters pulled down.
Poor David had been locked inside the shop!
As he tried to contact the outside world, David took a photo of the closed shutters and posted it on his Instagram account.
He captioned it with: “This is me locked inside a Waterstones bookstore in London.
“I was upstairs for 15 minutes and came down to all the lights out and door locked. Been here over an hour now. Supposedly someone is on their way. #nofilter #london.”
Unable to contact members of staff, David resorted to tweeting Waterstones, informing them of his predicament.
He wrote: “Hi @Waterstones, I've been locked inside of your Trafalgar Square bookstore for two hours now. Please let me out.”
Fellow Twitter users followed the man’s Waterstone’s adventure closely, with David’s tweet being retweeted thousands of times.
Luckily, the police were able to free poor, trapped David, and Waterstones confirmed that he was now a ‘free man’.
The company tweeted: “We're pleased to announce that @DWill_ [David Willis] is a free man once more. Thanks for your concern and tweets!”
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