--- title: Viral Woman Got Arrested for Her Bucket List description: An elderly woman got to fulfill her wish of experiencing a jail cell, thanks to the friendly Dutch police. canonical: https://time.com/4686302/dutch-woman-arrested-bucket-list/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-28T21:37:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:30.959Z og:title: This Elderly Woman Is Pumped She Purposely Got Herself Arrested og:description: At nearly 100 years old, she got the police to help her fulfill her wish. og:url: https://time.com/4686302/dutch-woman-arrested-bucket-list/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Elderly Woman Is Pumped She Purposely Got Herself Arrested twitter:description: At nearly 100 years old, she got the police to help her fulfill her wish. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Viral 99-Year-Old Woman Is Stoked She Got Herself Arrested to Finish Off Her Bucket List  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 28, 2017 9:37 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 28, 2017 9:37 PM UTC Most people dream of avoiding trouble with the law over the course of their lives. But for a nearly 100-year-old woman in the Netherlands, [her bucket list](http://time.com/4667333/new-google-maps-feature-2017/)—the list of things she wants to do before “kicking the bucket,” as it were—included an unusual item. While many turn to experiences like skydiving or traveling to the seven wonders of the world to fill out their lists, the elderly woman named Annie had expressed that she wanted to spend time in a jail cell to see what it was like from the inside, according [to ABC Action News.](http://6abc.com/news/dutch-woman-arrested-to-fulfill-bucket-list/1775254/) So the very accommodating police force of the Nijmegen area made good on her wish, sharing the pictures of the experience to [their Facebook page.](https://www.facebook.com/politienijmegenzuid/photos/a.572948799548004.1073741829.569502663225951/833781586798056/?type=3&theater) It looks like she’s having an absolute blast. She even got to test out handcuffs. As the caption notes (in Dutch), it was a “day to remember” for all involved in making this particular dream come true. And that’s certainly another box checked off of her bucket list. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4686302/dutch-woman-arrested-bucket-list/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4686302/dutch-woman-arrested-bucket-list/"},"headline":"This Viral 99-Year-Old Woman Is Stoked She Got Herself Arrested to Finish Off Her Bucket List","datePublished":"2017-02-28T21:37:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:30.959Z","description":"At nearly 100 years old, she got the police to help her fulfill her wish.","url":"https://time.com/4686302/dutch-woman-arrested-bucket-list/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4686302/dutch-woman-arrested-bucket-list/","name":"This Viral 99-Year-Old Woman Is Stoked She Got Herself Arrested to Finish Off Her Bucket List"}}]}] ```