Woman, 90 shoots herself as bailiffs move in.

Side affects of the mortgage crisis,,,,

Addie Polk, 90, shot herself in the chest moments before bailiffs were due to march her out of her house, after mortgage giant Fannie Mae hardened its approach to victims of the U.S. sub-prime mortgage crisis.
Ms Polk, now recovering in hospital, had taken out a 30-year mortgage four years ago for $45,620 - when her two-storey house in Akron, Ohio, was valued at $31,230. She had lived in the house for 38 years.

Neighbour Robert Dillon points to the upstairs bedroom where Addie Polk, 90, shot herself rather than face eviction from her home

She placed her life insurance policy next to her keys in the neatly kept house and shot herself after being told the house would be repossessed as she could not keep up repayments.

She had told neighbours she could not afford to carry out repairs but no one in the small community knew the extent of her crisis.
Barack Obama and John McCain are campaigning in the state, a key battleground where either could now win.

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Robert Dillon, 62, a friend who visited Ms Polk in hospital after she shot herself on October 1, said: '"She said that was a crazy thing to do. [I told her] that's crazy to you."'

Campaigners said her plight highlighted problems facing up to 40 per cent of US borrowers - or 20 million households - after lenders gave out impossibly high mortgages during the housing boom.
Fannie Mae, now under state control, has since dropped the repossession and said Ms Polk could remain in the home.