This is just awful.
Shopping cart is dropped four stories -- onto NY woman's headIn a crime that has shocked New Yorkers, two 12-year-olds allegedly dropped a shopping cart from four stories up, letting it fall on the head of a woman shopping for Halloween treats for underprivileged kids. She's now clinging to life.
Marion Salmon Hedges, 47, a successful Manhattan real estate agent, was at an East Harlem mall along with her 13-year-old son when the incident occurred Sunday, police said. Her son was not injured but was hysterical after witnessing the incident, according to the New York Post.
Mother and son were walking through a breezeway at a popular shopping area that includes, four stories up, a skyway that helps customers get to their destination. That was the perch the kids allegedly used to toss a shopping cart up and over the railing as a kind of prank, according to media reports.
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Police sources told the Post that the two kids taken into custody later laughed and joked about the incident.
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Woman Hit by Shopping Cart in Harlem Is Still in I.C.U.A Fateful Stop for Candy for a Helper to So Many
By LIZ ROBBINS
Published: November 1, 2011
There have never been enough causes for Marion Salmon Hedges, but always enough time.
Whether creating havens for battered women, taking meals to the terminally ill, painting park benches, attending her children’s school events or caring for her sister who was left incapacitated by a car accident, Ms. Hedges has been a volunteer force in Manhattan, forging extra hours in her day to improve the lives of others.
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On Sunday night, Ms. Hedges was with her 13-year-old son, Dayton, at a Costco store in East Harlem, buying several hundred dollars in Halloween candy, which the family planned to distribute to children from less-privileged neighborhoods who make the annual pilgrimage to their Upper West Side block of brownstones.
Suddenly, she was crushed by a shopping cart, which was dropped from four floors above, the police said, by two boys from a walkway connecting a parking garage to the shopping center that houses the Costco and a Target store.
Something like this happened in Virginia several years ago. A couple were driving home from their honeymoon, headed north on I-95 near Fredericksburg, when someone dropped a rock from an overpass onto the windshield of their car. The wife was struck in the head. She lived, but her life changed in an instant.
Google found this:
Boulder victim 'happy to be alive'Eight years after an event that nearly took her life, Daphne Dudley is thankful to be alive.
Robyn Sidersky
Date published: 6/7/2011
Eight years after a boulder landed on her car on Interstate 95 and nearly killed her, Daphne Dudley is living a new life in Atlanta.
The 38-year-old lives with her mother, Wanda Dudley and her sister, Sharmaine Dudley.
On June 8, 2003, Daphne and her husband, Brian Gipson, were driving back to Rochester, N.Y., from their honeymoon at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., when someone pushed a 70-pound granite boulder from the Guinea Station overpass in Spotsylvania County.
No one has been arrested, though the Virginia state police say the case is still open.
Brian Gipson suffered only a cut to his leg, but Daphne’s injuries were much more severe.
She broke almost every bone in her face and suffered brain damage.
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