Posted on 01/31/2014 2:10:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
On Thursday, a woman was killed after her hair and scarf were caught in an escalator at the Montreal metro. The scarf apparently strangled the woman.
A local newspaper reported that a woman who was 48 years of age had her scarf caught in the teeth of the escalator on Thursday morning. The newspaper report said that when the woman’s scarf became tangled in the moving escalator she bent over in an attempt to free herself and her hair then became stuck as well in the escalator. A person who was nearby call 911, but when police and rescue arrived the woman was said to have already died. The paper said she had been strangled by her own scarf.
A Montreal ambulance service spokesperson, Bob Lamle, said on Thursday that he had never seen something like that happen in his career of 30 years.
Lamle added that the first responders and firefighters who arrived there quickly began giving the woman heart resuscitation. Then rescue technicians arrived and started aiding the woman but there were no vital signs and she was declared dead. At the bottom and top of each escalator, an emergency button that stops the escalator is located for such emergencies. All escalators that serve the Montreal metro have the emergency buttons. It is unknown if anyone had pressed the emergency stop button when the woman became entangled and started to struggle to become free.
Users of the metro were shocked when they heard the news that a person had been killed while on the escalator as it was something many of them do on several occasions daily.
One user, who is just 13 years of age, said he was traumatized by what had happened since he uses the same escalator each day.
He said he would be very wary of having any shoelaces or other pieces of fabric loose when entering the escalator each morning and afternoon. An engineer that has worked on the system’s escalators for over nine years said they have safety mechanisms that should prevent such accidents.
I once saw a small boy get his knee impaled by a 6 inch pin a little bit larger than a pencil lead at Disney World in Orlando. Didn’t see how it happened but he was screaming bloody murder.
A tragic life all the way. Two children were killed in a car accident, another died shortly after birth.
Her husband the Russian poet Yesinen hung himself in a hotel room two years before her death.
If you've never seen them the early collection of poems by the American poet Jim Harrison, 'Letters to Yesinen,' are extraordinary.
Users of the metro were shocked when they heard the news that a person had been killed while on the escalator as it was something many of them do on several occasions daily.
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And just what is the “something” that many of them do? This makes no sense.
Why are there so many “journalists” who do not know how to compose a sentence?
I had a friend loose his index finger when he was 5 years old. It got caught in the escalator and reaching the bottom his finger was amputated.
Mozlums: inbred, pedophile-worshipping misogynists.
Isadora certainly lived life on the edge. I’ve been to her gravesite - unfortunately marred by graffiti as is Oscar Wilde’s. Why the French allow that is beyond me.
Well, if you believe all that why don’t you go around killing Muslims?
Well, if you believe all that why don’t you go around killing Muslims?
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