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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Build more escalators!!!
10 is much too young for a great dog. RIP, Jamie.
Well, obviously, we need to outlaw escalators. </liberal logic>
Just reminiscing...
Yes indeed, and the lovely Natasha Richardson died of a head injury sustained on a ski slope as well.
Maybe we should have a thread on Who Had The Most Stylish Death.
Thank you.
She was the very benchmark for proper dog behavior and died well and swiftly without suffering.
I hope that poor woman died swiftly.
with prizes to encourage Hollyweirdo’s to go for the gold?
She was able to get the scarf pulled out but when she bent over to do so her hair became entangled.
LOL. Great idea. I think we're onto something socially significant. Ridding the world of bad actors.
"I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille."
I’m guessing it happened slowly enough that she knew what was happening, but too fast for her to be able to dig through her purse (particularly in a panicked state, and particularly after she got her hair caught). Just terrible.
Would some of you be chortling if it had simply been a winter hat?
I read 20 for 1997 to 2003. 3.5 a year is “shocking”?
A Jihad on escalators.
HAHAHAHA :D
That is just hilarious!
Evil?
Was she standing on her head while riding the escalator?
lol
Perhaps it is a tendency of some persons to say things that immediately come to mind. I am sure if they had been there, most of them would have tried to help the woman. Still, sometimes such statements cut pretty deep.
I have read Winston Churchill's accounts and his indictment of Islam. I am absolutely livid when I read of the wicked senseless acts which includes the bombing of the subway in London 2005. Add to that the swines that beheaded Drummer Rigby in England. I have no brief for that Islam.
I am just trying to say what I said to my Liberal wife (bless her) when I read of the accident. Poor woman!. Wow! excuse the ramble.
Yeah, at the peril of her life.
We need more escalators.
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