Thursday, December 11, 2014
Dumbwaiter Gone Wrong
Brook Baures was a 21-year-old senior and a standout gymnast at Winona State University in Minnesota. December 1, she died of severe head injuries from getting her head caught in dumbwaiter at a restaurant that she worked at. She was working at a banquet on the second floor that day. If the witness' statements are true, police believe that Baures was the only one that could have pressed the dumbwaiter's control button. They have come the the conclusion that no crime was committed. The autopsy had found that there was "excessive destruction" and concluded that the cause of death was severe head trama. Police believe that her head "was located almost entirely inside the cab of the elevator canted slightly to her right as the cab descended. When the roof of the cab passed the sill of the second floor access, Brooke sustained fatal crushing injuries to her brainstem and cerebellum," according to the autopsy report. I find this shocking in a way. I don't think that she would have gotten caught in there. I don't understand how this happened.
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If you don't believe she could have gotten caught in there do you feel that the accident was actually done on purpose. Do you think it was one of the waitresses or do you think she did it on purpose? I totally agree with you on how it is supposed to be an accident. I can't see her head getting stuck in there unless someone forced her to go in there or if she put her head in there on purpose.
ReplyDeleteYes, i think it was on purpose but I'm not completely sure if she did it intentionally or if it was someone else, however, this is one of the 911 calls that got me thinking:
Delete“I think one of my co-workers got squished in, like, our dumbwaiter,” the Daily Mail reported a coworker who called 911 as saying. “But I’m not willing to look close enough.”
I don't if this is how this person normally talks, but I know if I saw anyone squished in anything, that would not be what I sounded like on a 911 call.
I completely agree with you Kaitlynne. If the 911 call sounded like that, I would start thinking that the person calling wasn't concerned with the person in the machine and could possibly have been the one that put her in the machine.
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