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Woman Makes Fake 911 Call, Then Calls Again as Garage Door Crushes Her in Fatal Mishap
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| October 20, 2009
Posted on 10/21/2009 1:02:50 PM PDT by kingattax
CALDWELL, Idaho Police say an Idaho woman who made a false 911 call to lure paramedics out of their station made a real emergency call minutes later when she got trapped under the station's garage door.
Melissa R. Farris died Oct. 2 of injuries suffered when she was crushed by the closing garage door at the Canyon County station.
Farris, a former paramedic at the station, had been trying to crawl under the door after the ambulance left to respond to a nonexistent traffic accident she'd called in a few minutes earlier.
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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 911call; farris
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To: GeronL
Her surviving family will sue, of course...the city, the garage door manufacturer, the med maker. Sigh...
Colonel, USAFR
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posted on
10/21/2009 1:15:19 PM PDT
by
jagusafr
(Kill the red lizard, Lord! - nod to C.S. Lewis)
To: kingattax
To: kingattax
Karma bites. Sometimes very quickly. Good riddance to her.
To: the long march
>Cry wolf
That was my thought.
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posted on
10/21/2009 1:21:54 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: GeronL
My garage door wont shut if anything is under there. Same thing with elevator doors. But apparently not a firehouse door.
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posted on
10/21/2009 1:23:32 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(Worse than we could have imagined.)
To: kingattax
Obviously the garage door was defective.
In D.C. the citizens used to pull the Fire box and come in like this and steal the TV or sometimes our dinner and shoes. We kicked the shoes off when we put our boots on, and came back to find them gone.
The Fire boxes are gone now mostly sold as antiques to Fire Bffs.
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posted on
10/21/2009 1:25:30 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: kingattax
My folks are from neighboring Nampa. They said it was a strange situation, but that the lady had been let go by the department there. They were wondering at the time whether she lured the folks out of the station to vandalize it, or to commit suicide. I talked to them about two weeks ago (a week after it happened).
I'm guessing to vandalize, unless she re-thought the suicide thingy and called for help...
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posted on
10/21/2009 1:27:48 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
To: kingattax
(Witholding comments about the size of them doors!)
To: Responsibility2nd
What has been seen cannot be unseen
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posted on
10/21/2009 1:34:08 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Obama can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
To: kingattax
She found herself in a sticky situation, when she bought the Acme plans for the caper from the coyote. In the end she just couldn’t handle the pressure.
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Tragically, she could have been saved, if the garage door opener had been an actual genie.
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posted on
10/21/2009 8:04:44 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: GloriaJane
Most garage doors have safty’s one them - kind of like an elevator door...
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posted on
10/21/2009 8:06:40 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Liberal NFL doesn't think Rush is good enough for them? They feel the same about us-BOYCOTT)
To: kingattax
How ironic that the paramedic station automatic door lacked any safety device to keep that from happening.
I think most residential auto doors have both a light beam sensor and a debris sensor that opens the door back up if it hits something before it's fully closed.
To: kingattax
Hold my beer and watch this ...
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posted on
10/21/2009 8:22:50 PM PDT
by
altair
(All I want for Christmas is NO legislation passed for the rest of the year)
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