Woman Makes Fake 911 Call, Then Calls Again as Garage Door Crushes Her in Fatal Mishap

AP/FoxNews ^ | October 20, 2009

[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.

[jagusafr]

Her surviving family will sue, of course...the city, the garage door manufacturer, the med maker. Sigh...

Colonel, USAFR

[the long march]

Cry wolf -—

[GovernmentShrinker]

Karma bites. Sometimes very quickly. Good riddance to her.

[OneWingedShark]

>Cry wolf

That was my thought.

[luvbach1]

My garage door won’t shut if anything is under there.

Same thing with elevator doors. But apparently not a firehouse door.

[Venturer]

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.

[IYAS9YAS]

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...

[Responsibility2nd]

 

 

(Witholding comments about the size of them doors!)

[MaxMax]

What has been seen cannot be unseen

[dog breath]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Tragically, she could have been saved, if the garage door opener had been an actual genie.

[GOPJ]

Most garage doors have safty’s one them - kind of like an elevator door...

[Trailerpark Badass]

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.

[altair]

Hold my beer and watch this ...