a woman died strangled by her scarf at montreal metro

[Mia001]

http://www.montrealgazette.com/Woman...172/story.html

what a horrible thing.....loosing her life on metro escalator...

DH said ....was there no one with a knife to cut the scarf and save her ????

note to self :...never trust mechanic escalators....never

[smcs28]

Great I already had a phobia of escalators. Luckily I don't wear scarves.

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[Zonny]

I heard about this. I wear a very long scarf, I definitely think about this on the escalator! One time my mom got a boot lace caught in an escalator, there was a moment of panic before someone hit the emergency stop button.

[Candini]

Read about this yesterday, gave me goosebumps.

Not to be grim - but it sounds like something from Final Destination? Like holy smokes. If I saw that happening I`d be tramatized

Edit * The article I read yesterday said her hair got caught as well but did not say in this one. Also said she was 30, not 48... Strange.

[Patty Smyth]

It was her Hijab that got stuck and her hair.

There is speculation that she may have fallen or suffered a medical emergency and that's how it got caught.

Very sad

[Natalka]

Just awful - newer escalators have automatic shutdown features.

So very sad that the mention of it being her hijab caused such a stir of hate online.

[smcs28]

Omg. That started hate? Peo ppl we can be horrible human beings

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[Patty Smyth]

Just awful - newer escalators have automatic shutdown features.

So very sad that the mention of it being her hijab caused such a stir of hate online.

Nothing new here there is a lot of hate going around especially with the proposed "charter of values" Bill 60.

[Natalka]

Oh, I know... the article I read said that's why the police called it a scarf in their reporting of it.