Posted on 01/30/2014 7:04:07 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Woman dies after hijab, hair get tangled in Montreal escalator
MONTREAL — A woman in her 30s is dead after her headscarf and hair became caught in a subway-station escalator.
A bystander found the woman lying at the base of the escalator at Fabre metro station in east-end Montreal around 9:15 a.m.
He alerted transit workers, who called police.
When first responders arrived, the woman was unresponsive.
"We tried to perform resuscitation on site, but we weren't able to save her," paramedic Bob Lamle told QMI Agency.
The exact circumstances of the woman's death weren't immediately clear, but Montreal police spokesman Jean-Pierre Brabant said it appeared "her headscarf and her hair got stuck in the escalator."
"Was she strangled by her scarf or was she the victim of an illness before falling? It's too early to say," Brabant added.
Police shut down the metro station for the investigation
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I think it’s a terrible way to die. Sounds like something out of a horror movie.
I agree. Especially since escalators kill a shocking number of people each year, which has nothing to do with her religion.
get a grip people seriesly
Yes, I thought of Isadora too. But her scarf was caught in the wheels of a sporty car, a rather more glorious way to go, if you choose to go by headscarf.
Wasn’t she a Comsymp?
She died a horrible death. RIP.
When she died, in 1927, she was a Soviet citizen.
Too bad she didn’t live like most of them did at that time.
FORCED? by whom?
this is a tragic occurrence....but her apparel was her CHOICE.
Strangling on an escalator seems like a very slow way to die. Once she realized that she was in danger, then why didn’t she just slip it off, tear it off, or cut it off with one of the assorted sharp objects that most women carry in their purses? This story does not make sense, on any level.
"NO HIJABS!"
Well, no one has commented on the fact that a “bystander” found her. Instead of trying to free her from the hijab that was probably strangling her, he called transit workers to the scene. Instead of trying to free her from the hijab, the transit workers called first responders.
By the time the first responders got there, she was dead, dead, dead.
Why didn’t someone try to free her from the escalator? Could it be because they didn’t dare touch a hijab, for fear that some Muslim would come along and cut off their heads? And probably the woman’s head, too, for good measure.
Just speculation. But it is certainly curious that no one tried at least to free her, if not attempt artificial respiration.
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I like to get my news from FR, the comments however are getting very tasteless. Would you look her family in the eye and mock her death? Very Sad
Just maybe, islam is a self-correcting problem
I always thought that Sonny Bono went out in a rather sporty fashion.
Coming soon from The SyFy Channel: "Escalator-nado"
There is an emergency stop button at the top and at the bottom of an escalator.
Not unexpected that the CBC reported only that the woman’s ‘scarf’ got caught in the escalator, rather than her hijab. One can only hope that she, like many former muhamedans, saw a vision of Jesus and accepted Him, like the repentent thief on the cross did.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3117645/posts
as do SUV’s, guns and other relatively inanimate objects.
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Oh redwoods-you are very bad.
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