Posted on 02/07/2017 3:11:18 PM PST by tired&retired
A Northumberland County woman died after her arm got caught in the door of a clothing drop-off box while apparently removing bags from the container and she was left dangling with her feet off the ground.
Judith Permar, 56, of Mount Carmel, Pa., was standing on a step stool Sunday when it collapsed, breaking her arms and wrist and trapping her in the donation box, PennLive reported.
"She was fishing bags out and the ladder she was standing on gave way and she couldn't get her hand loose," said Chief Brian Hollenbush, Mount Carmel Township Police, when contacted by phone.
Permar died from blunt force trauma and hypothermia, according to the county coroner.
Bags with cloths and shoes that had been pulled from the bin were on the ground. Permar's black Hummer was nearby with the engine still running, said Hollenbush.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Good point, LOL!
CC
How do they know she wasn’t pushing bags in; a lot of them have such narrow slits, you really have to reach in far and push to get the bag to drop so you can shut the door if it’s a full bag. I could imagine a woman of slight build might have a hard time with it, and if she had several bags, an observer might think she was fishing bags out.
Aren’t drop-off boxes meant to put donations into?....Only if you can’t afford a Hummer.
Leni
Give a hummer, get a Hummer.
Oh, she wasn’t donating. She was stealing.
Not feeling too sorry
What’s going on in this country when someone driving one is stealing all those sacks of cloths from a charity at 2AM?....Obama thought?
Apparently fun to some people meant making a run at 2:00am in the morning - in your Hummer - to steal clothes from a Donation Box.
In her defense, it is quite possible she inadvertently included something she wanted to keep in an earlier donation drop.
Or maybe husband or kids grabbed the wrong bag on way to donation drop.
I didn't condemn, but only asked the obvious questions that needed asking in view of all the facts already established.
As for kleptomania, if Hollywood stars are still held to account when they make that claim, so should regular people. The family's lose and embarrassment doesn't trump the questions.
I had the same thought as you did. Then I clicked the link and read the article.
This wasn’t her first rodeo.
So you can make enough stealing used clothes to afford to buy a Hummer?
Karma?
A horrible death?
For clothes?
Come on all you haters! Who among you has not gone to a charity drop off box at 2:30am? And who among you has not picked out some of the crappy things people dump in that box so recipients will not be insulted by them and diminish their self esteem? Who, I ask you!!
You seem very certain that a crime was being committed. Although it may be satisfying to contemplate the humor in a situation, perhaps it might be wise to consider that the newspaper may be reporting the story in a sensational manner. All of the evidence is circumstantial. You really don’t have enough knowledge to pass any kind of judgment. Hopefully you won’t die in a way that seems questionable and possibly funny so we won’t be laughing and making snide comments. But maybe you will.
At 2:15 AM? Yeah, sounds perfectly normal to me.
Yes Indeed. We’ve all seen some of the junk people “donate” in those boxes. Junk that would be better off thrown away.
Perhaps Judith was being a nice sweet old lady and was fishing out the junk so the donation workers wouldn’t have to.
Yeah. That’s the ticket.
This may turn out to be Darwinian, we shall see...
She was giving away the clothes she couldn’t sell is my guess. She finds a coach or michael kors off to ebay it goes.
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