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Woman Dies After Hijab, Hair Get Tangled in Montreal Escalator
Toronto Sun ^ | Thursday, January 30, 2014 | QMI Agency

Posted on 01/30/2014 7:04:07 PM PST by DogByte6RER

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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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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burqa; darwinaward; escalator; fashionvictim; hijab; islam; islamicimperialism; montreal; muhammadsminions; muslim; muslims; publictransit; sharialaw
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

All muslims are victims of islam.


61 posted on 01/30/2014 8:30:36 PM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Vigilanteman

my parents showed me the guarantee


62 posted on 01/30/2014 8:33:21 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: DJ MacWoW

Important to step well on and off them, avoiding the point at which the steps collapse, vanish, and start another revolution. Obviously anything dangling creates an immediate hazard.


63 posted on 01/30/2014 8:41:53 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished)
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To: HollyB; shibumi

Or just very long hair.

I’ve had some painful occurences when I wasn’t paying attention to where my hair was or hadn’t properly put it up when working with dangerous tools.


64 posted on 01/30/2014 8:43:18 PM PST by Salamander (Sleeping don't come very easy in a strait white vest.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

The heel of my gramma’s shoe got caught in a Sears escalator and knocked her flat, screaming.

My aunt barely got the shoe off before her foot was mangled.

The escalator ‘ate’ her shoe.

I avoid the damn things.


65 posted on 01/30/2014 8:48:10 PM PST by Salamander (Sleeping don't come very easy in a strait white vest.)
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To: Salamander

My uncle was elevator inspector in N.Carolina,
He was inspecting a unit that had the floor plates
removed and he was standing inside the machinery.
A wire shorted out and it started up took his leg
above the knee. It really mellowed him out and his
later years were much nicer for his family. he would
swim, and fish drive a car, he later died of cancer
but he held out nice all the way to the end.

Feel sorry for the girl, it must have been frightening.


66 posted on 01/30/2014 8:52:12 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Salamander

#1 Son was about 3 as I recall.

Escalator tried to eat him “hand first.”
Fortunately the safety stop worked.
We were lucky with just a couple of pinched fingers.


67 posted on 01/30/2014 8:53:41 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Salamander

Exactly


68 posted on 01/30/2014 8:57:29 PM PST by HollyB
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To: Psiman
>>Especially since escalators kill a shocking number of people each year,<<

ConsumerWatch.com">According to ConsumerWatch.com, “U.S. elevators make 18 billion passenger trips per year.” Those trips result in about 27 deaths annually, according to estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. That works out to a fatality rate of 0.00000015% per trip.

69 posted on 01/30/2014 9:04:43 PM PST by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: Psiman

“Especially since escalators kill a shocking number of people each year...”

Do they? I’m terrified of them, and think, I’m from the big city and lived around them my whole life. You should see me getting on one...I wouldn’t go to the gallows more gingerly!

In a way I feel validated, but in another way...even more terrified!

I don’t know how this happened to this woman though, did she get caught in the hand rail? Or did she have really long hair and/or a really long hajib?

Whatever happened to her, jokes and snark aside, may she RIP.


70 posted on 01/30/2014 9:06:39 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Luircin

When the news footage showed how many Islamic women cheered and did their “ulululululululuuu!” on 9-11-2001 they lost all right to have me pity them one iota. If the overall reaction of muzzies would have been an immediate denouncement of the terrorist acts I’d feel differently. But it is what it is.

Escalator > Allah


71 posted on 01/30/2014 9:10:37 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( 0bama's words are the distraction to the destruction ))))
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To: DogByte6RER

Am I wrong for imagining a new brand of escalators made of bacon?


72 posted on 01/30/2014 9:20:19 PM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Sounds like a modern day Duncan Isadora event.


73 posted on 01/30/2014 9:44:30 PM PST by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: Black Agnes

I think poor Miss Izzy actually lost her head while joyriding, her long flapper girl scarf became her undoing .


74 posted on 01/30/2014 10:24:33 PM PST by lee martell
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To: GeronL

Really? Who cares.


75 posted on 01/30/2014 10:29:02 PM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: Cicero

Some more radical muslims are hypersensitive to being touched by the opposite sex for ANY reason, even medical assistance. Can you imagine what may have occured if she had a Taliban style husband, father or brother, and they walked up to see some Orthodox Jewish man giving her a vigorous mouth to mouth?


76 posted on 01/30/2014 10:37:04 PM PST by lee martell
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To: ZinGirl

“her apparel was her CHOICE.”

Perhaps — but, the fact remains that Muslim women have very little power, and most are coerced into wearing the concealing (and dehumanizing) clothing.


77 posted on 01/30/2014 11:32:01 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: bigheadfred; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

It’s a start.

Probably shouldn’t have used a machine designed by the Zionist Escalator Company. ;’)


78 posted on 01/31/2014 1:35:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: DogByte6RER

How did her head scarf get tangled in the escalator? Must have bent to tie her combat boots.


79 posted on 01/31/2014 1:37:56 AM PST by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Being Muslim is her choice. (hey - I'm not saying it's an EASY choice....but it is still a choice, along with the dehumanizing clothing).

Aside from that, it is still tragic. For all we know, it might have been her fashion style to wear a long scarf anyway. My daughter loves wearing scarves, and I think about these things (ever since reading about Isadora Duncan years ago!) The odd times that I wear a scarf to work, I'm hella careful when I lean over to put something in the paper shredder.

80 posted on 01/31/2014 3:58:24 AM PST by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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