Woman Rose Mancos Killed Trying to Retrieve her Purse that fell on the Train Tracks New York City Subway

Woman killed by subway train trying to retrieve her purse.

A woman was crushed to death by an oncoming subway train at the 77th Street Station in Manhattan this afternoon after she jumped on the tracks to retrieve her dropped purse, police said. The horrific incident occurred on the crowded northbound platform shortly before 4 p.m. when the woman, described by police as 48-years-old, somehow ended up on the tracks as a train barreled towards her.

Can you only imagine the feeling this woman was feeling at that very moment as the train is approaching…? But what to do as the train comes closer and closer?

As the No. 6 train headed towards the woman, onlookers screamed to her to lie down between the tracks.

The fear, the desperation…

The motorman sounded his horn eight times to warn her, witnesses said.

The confusion, the terror…

Other witnesses said it appeared that she was trying to climb back up..

What to do? the train getting closer…

The woman then pressed herself against the platform wall — which only provides several inches of space between the wall and the train

And that’s when her life ended. And then the real pandemonium ensued:

“All I saw was her head sticking out. She was stuck where the door is,” she said. It was chaos on the platform as straphangers shrieked with horror upon seeing the shredded parts of her body, witnesses said.

Why don’t people just pay attention? Is it ever really worth to put yourself in such a risk. Oh the horror…

The woman, Rose M. Mankos, was a lawyer who had previously worked for the state, the authorities

Rose M. Mankos

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Police Identify Woman Killed by Subway Train


By AL BAKER and CARA BUCKLEY

Updated, 2:57 p.m.
The 48-year-old woman who was crushed to death by a subway train on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Thursday afternoon has been identified as Rose M. Mankos, the authorities said. She was a lawyer who had previously worked for the state.

Ms. Mankos, who was dressed in athletic-style clothing, jumped into the track bed at East 77th Street and Lexington Avenue at about 3:45 p.m. to retrieve her black-and-gray nylon shoulder bag, which had fallen there.

But witnesses said a northbound No. 6 train bore down on her and struck her before she could hoist herself back onto the platform.

When emergency responders found her, Ms. Mankos had severe injuries to her face and skull, and she was pronounced dead at the scene. Her identification was later discovered inside her bag, which was found lying in the track bed, and the police notified her brother, Joseph.

Also in the bag was “gym clothing and deodorant,” said a law enforcement official.

Ms. Mankos lived at 250 First Avenue, just north of East 14th Street, in Stuyvesant Town, Manhattan. She was a former senior court analyst at the state office court administration’s Division of Continuing Legal Education, last working there in February 2008. She graduated from New York University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 2001.

Reached at his home in North Bergen, N.J., Ms. Mankos’s 82-year-old father, Robert Mankos, said Friday that he hardly begun to process his daughter’s death, and that he had already felt stretched past his limit from caring for his wife, who has Parkinson’s disease and diabetes.

“I felt like 60 before, I feel like 105 now,” he said.

Rose Mankos lived by herself and had never married, but loved cats. She often visited her mother at a nursing home in New Jersey, Mr. Mankos said.

He said he had not seen much of his daughter lately. When the medical examiner called, asking him to come to the city to identify Ms. Mankos’s body, he realized he could not bear the ordeal. “It’s too much,” he said

Instead his son, who had traveled from Pittsburgh, was on his way Friday to identify the body.

Mr. Mankos could not fathom why his daughter jumped onto the subway tracks. “I guess she dropped her purse,” he said, “Except you never do that, never.”

The family was planning a small private service in the coming days.

“It’s too late now,” Mr. Mankos said. “I’ll be praying for the rest of my life, until I die.”

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Sad news today, as Rose Mankos, a 48-year-old New York City woman, was crushed to death by a subway car in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Mankos was a lawyer who had previously worked for the state of New York.

According to reports, Mankos jumped down into the tracks while attempting to grab her shoulder bag, which had fallen down. But before she could hoist herself back up onto the platform, the No. 6 subway train struck and killed the woman.

She was pronounced dead at the scene. Her father, when contacted by the New York Times, expressed his immese grief by saying, "I felt like 60 before, I feel like 105 now."

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/woman_crushed_to_death_on_subway_9Z15Jbow2Bk4kdbgNCD2BO

http://www.zimbio.com/Rose+Mankos/articles/qL8QhZ-3U5r/Rose+Mankos+Killed+NYC+Subway

69-Year Old Ryan Koyama got Killed When his Car hit Loose Running Horse

A man and a horse died as a result of a car collision on Crenshaw Boulevard in Rolling Hills Estates, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012.         

ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. (KABC) -- A man died after his car hit a horse that was loose and running on the road. The horse was killed at the scene.
The accident happened shortly after 2 a.m. on Crenshaw Boulevard, north of Palos Verdes Drive North, in Rolling Hills Estates. Authorities say 69-year-old Ryan Koyama died at a hospital.
The horse had gotten free from a nearby stable and flew over the top of the car when it was hit.

Animal control officers euthanized the horse at the scene.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=8815482

Texas Hollywood Park Mayor Bill Bohlke kiled by his Donkey

A small town Texas mayor was killed in an apparent attack by his own donkey Monday.
Hollywood Park Mayor Bill Bohlke was found dead Monday evening on his farm in Atascosa County, Texas. According to MySanAntonio.com local law enforcement officials believe that Bohlke's donkey attacked him.
MySanAntonio.com reports:

He was found on his Atascosa County ranch about 50 yards from his truck about 10 p.m. Monday, at least 10 hours after a stud donkey apparently attacked him, Atascosa County Chief Deputy David Soward said Wednesday.“They can become very aggressive, very mean, sometimes triggered by a female in heat,” Soward said. “We'll probably never know what triggered it, but it was evident that this particular donkey was involved, based on the evidence at the scene and what we saw on this donkey.”
When asked if Bohlke was kicked or trampled, Soward replied, “We can just surmise, based on the evidence that we have, all of that.”

WOAI.com reports that Bohlke's family grew concerned when the first-term mayor had not returned home following a day on the ranch, and they gathered a group of neighbors who used a caravan of all-terrain vehicles to search for Bohlke.

Irma Zamora's Death Electrocuted

Irma Zamora's husband urged her not to get out of the car as they approached the scene of a spectacular traffic crash in Los Angeles' Valley Village neighborhood. But as he pulled over to call 911, she rushed out anyway, eager to help.

A sport utility vehicle had just careened through the intersection of Magnolia Boulevard and Ben Avenue, shearing off a concrete light standard and knocking over a fire hydrant before coming to rest on a front lawn. Water spewed skyward from the broken hydrant and quickly pooled in the intersection.

Zamora ran toward the wrecked SUV and stepped into an electrified pool of water. She was immediately –- and fatally — electrocuted, struck by what firefighters estimate was 48,000 volts of electricity.

Such selfless action was typical of Zamora, her sister Ana Aviles said Thursday. "She always helped people. She didn't measure the consequences. She was trying to save a life."

Zamora, 40, of Burbank, was one of two women who died Wednesday night in what police and witnesses described as a bizarre and tragic series of events. The name of the second woman, who touched Zamora after she had been stricken and was also electrocuted, has not been released.

At least half a dozen others, including the driver of the SUV and a Los Angeles police officer, were hospitalized after they too received electrical shocks while trying to aid the victims.

"It's horrific, very sad for the families of these women and everyone involved," said Los Angeles Police Det. Bill Bustos of the Valley Traffic Division. "They were just trying to help."

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who visited the site of the accident Thursday with other city officials, called the two women heroes and praised their instinct to render aid. But he also urged people to take time to assess such situations and wait for professionals to arrive. "We don't want anyone hurt," he said.

Police said the driver of the vehicle, a 19-year-old from Glendale who has not been identified, was heading west on Magnolia Boulevard when he tried to negotiate a right turn onto Ben from the left lane. He was traveling at speeds believed to be well above the 35-mile-per-hour limit, police said.

Alcohol was not a factor, Bustos said.

Residents of the densely populated neighborhood described a chaotic scene, as gushing water spread rapidly through the darkened intersection. Would-be rescuers raced up from all directions.

"It was horrible, chaotic, just horrible," said Liz Casmier, who lives nearby. Casmier said at least 50 people gathered within minutes of the crash.

Jacqueline Montgomery, who manages a nearby apartment complex, was walking a friend to his car when she saw the speeding SUV sliding into the turn.

"He was flying," she said.

As people began to pour out of the many apartment buildings in the area, Zamora and her husband pulled up, several eyewitnesses said. Zamora raced toward the SUV, apparently intent on helping the driver, but stepped into the water and was instantly shocked.

"We saw her standing there and shaking" from the electrical current, said a resident named Jeanette, who declined to give her last name. "I can still see it vivid in my mind."

Zamora's distraught husband ran toward his wife, yelling to her, the woman said. Several neighbors restrained him, fearing he too might be injured.

Twin brothers Skyler and Beau Maxon, 23, who moved to Los Angeles from Salt Lake City two years ago to pursue acting careers, also rushed to the scene from their apartment.

Skyler Maxon said his brother approached Zamora, touching either the injured woman or the electrified water near her and immediately suffered a shock. He was in intensive care Thursday but is expected to live, his brother said.

Maxon said as he and another man tried to help his brother, another woman, not aware of the danger, ran toward Zamora. "We were yelling at her to stay back, but I don't think she understood," he said.

The woman touched Zamora, then collapsed.

Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Jaime Moore said rescue crews used a specialized glass pole to retrieve the women's bodies safely. Efforts to resuscitate them were unsuccessful, he said.

Late in the day, Zamora's family members and friends set up a collage of pictures of her at the accident site and several young relatives released balloons in her memory.

Since 1993, she had worked at Lawyers Title Co. in Burbank, where she had moved up from the switchboard to an assistant title officer. She was friendly and well-liked, said the firm's David Cronenbold.
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The other woman who was electrocuted was Stacey Lee Schreiber, 39, of Valley Village.

DMV photo of Stacey 

One witness said he tried to warn her to stay back from the wire, but he thinks she must not have heard her. Gerome Glassman told KTLA: "I kept telling her, pleading with her, that stay back, it's a live wire. She didn't hear me, and she dropped within seconds. There was nothing we could do."
Glassman was one of about a half-dozen people at the scene who tried to rescue the injured. He said he was thrown back when he was shocked. One North Hollywood police received a shock through his boot, and was discharged overnight. Another witness named Skyler Maxon told KTLA that his twin brother was in the hospital after getting shocked as well.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0824-electrocution-20120824,0,7081357.story?track=rss

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/women-electrocuted-helping-person-car-crash-article-1.1142952

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/irma-zamora-stacey-schreiber-good-samaritans-electrocuted_n_1828338.html

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Lehi Boy, 4, dies after tombstone falls on him in Utah

This undated photo provided by the family via Park City Medical Center shows Carson Dean Cheney, 4, who died July 5, 2012 after a large tombstone fell and hit the boy while he and his family were visiting a historic cemetery in the Utah ski resort town of Park City.

A 4-year-old boy is dead after a large tombstone toppled onto him while his family and some friends gathered to take pictures at a historic cemetery in a Utah ski resort town.

Carson Dean Cheney was at the Glenwood Cemetery in Park City on Thursday evening when the 6-foot-tall headstone detached from its base and fell on him, Park City police Capt. Phil Kirk said Friday. The headstone was about 4 inches thick and weighed hundreds of pounds.

"There's still so much disbelief and sorrow and anguish," the boy's grandmother Geri Gibbs told The Associated Press. "We just keep waiting for the door to open up and Carson to come through, a happy little boy."

She said Carson was just about to enter kindergarten, loved to ride his bike and was "full of life."

Investigators were still probing the incident Friday.

Gibbs said the boy and his family were visiting from Lehi, about an hour away, and were at the old cemetery while his father took photos of friends and relatives.

The boy was holding onto the headstone when some metal connecting it to the pedestal broke, Gibbs said.

She said it took three men to pull the slab off the boy, and rescuers "did everything they could possibly do."

The child suffered injuries to his head, chest and abdomen and was taken to the nearby Park City Medical Center, where he died a short time later.

Curtis Morley is a family friend and works with the boy's father, Zac Cheney, at a professional services firm in Salt Lake City. He said Zac Cheney does photography in his spare time and was shooting portraits at the cemetery because of its extensive landscaping.

Morley said some of the children being photographed were not being responsive, so Carson tried to help his dad by pretending to be leprechaun and making them laugh. Morley said the boy went behind a tombstone and was playfully poking his head out from behind it when it fell on him.

"Carson passed away while trying to make others smile," Morley said.

Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter said the heavy, coarse stone marked the grave of someone who died in the 1800s.

Bruce Erickson, president of the Glenwood Cemetery Association, said the private, five-acre cemetery around the corner from Park City Mountain Resort was founded by a society of silver miners in 1885, and many of the tombstones are at least 100 years old. The cemetery is open to the public and still accepts burials of people connected to the mining society.

Erickson said no funerals were held there Thursday.

New burials happen maybe just once a year, he said, and families are responsible for maintaining the headstones. Erickson said the cemetery likely will be closed through the weekend.

PARK CITY — A 4-year-old Lehi boy died Thursday after a 100-year-old headstone fell on top of him.

The boy was with his family at the historic Glenwood Cemetery, 402 Silver King Drive, when the accident occurred about 6 p.m. Carson Dean Cheney was taken to Park City Medical Center, where he died from his injuries, police said.

The private, nonprofit cemetery was established in the late 1800s and marks the burial locations for many of Park City's founders.

"(It's) very unfortunate, certainly something we've never seen before nor have I heard of and I just feel very bad for everyone involved in this," said Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter. "Everyone has been devastated by this

http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/jul/09/boy-dies-after-tombstone-falls-hits-him-in-utah/

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Man electrocuted after Urinating

The man was on the CTA Purple Line South Station platform at 601 South Blvd. in Evanston about 11 p.m. with two other people when he came into contact with the third rail, according to CTA spokeswoman Lambrini Lukidis.

Zachary McKee, 27, of the 4000 block of East 800 North in Ossian, Ind., was pronounced dead at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston at 11:52 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

Police reviewed CTA surveillance video and determined he had climbed down to the tracks to urinate when he fell onto the third rail, according to a press release from the Evanston Police Department.

One of the two people the man was with ran down stairs to the booth at the entrance at the station and alerted the security guard on duty to the situation, Lukidis said. The security guard then called Evanston Police and Fire officials.

A Monday autopsy found McKee was electrocuted and ruled his death an accident, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Egypt Man Went to Drink Water from Cooler was Electrocuted and Diesand Dies

خرج طالب من منزله للادلاء بصوته فى إحدى اللجان الانتخابية بشبرا الخيمة، وأمام إحدى اللجان وبسبب شدة الحر اشتد به العطش.. فذهب إلى أحد مبردات المياه فى الشارع، وأثناء تناوله المياه، صعقه التيار الكهربائى، ولقى مصرعه فى الحال.
وتم نقل الجثة إلى مسشتفى ناصر العام.. فيما أخطرت النيابة التى تولت التحقيق.
وقد تلقى اللواء أحمد سالم جاد مدير أمن القليوبية إشارة من مستشفى ناصر العام بوصول المدعو فتحى عبدالله فؤاد (22 عاما - طالب) جثة هامدة، كشفت تحريات اللواء محمد القصيرى مدير المباحث الجنائية إلى أن المجنى عليه أثناء ذهابه إلى إحد لجان الانتخابات للادلاء بصوته.. وبسبب شدة الحر، شاهد مبرد مياه فى الطريق.. وتوقف لتناول المياه.. فصعقه التيار، ولقى مصرعه فى الحال قبل الإدلاء بصوته.. وأخطرت النيابة فتولت التحقيق.


اقرأ المقال الأصلي علي بوابة الوفد الاليكترونية الوفد - وفاة طالب صعقا بالكهرباء أثناء الإدلاء بصوته

Whitney Houston's Death

Crack cocaine user Houston, 48, was found dead under the bath water by her bodyguard in luxury suite number 434 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday afternoon, which is said to have been littered with bottles of prescription pills.

On Thursday she is said to have gone on a 'wild binge' where she clashed with security guards. The next evening she 'partied heavily, drank and chatted loudly' with friends at the hotel bar.

Bottles of Lorazepam, Valium, Xanax and a sleeping medication were found in the hotel room, it has been claimed.

The drugs were believed to have acted as sedatives, causing her to fall asleep in the bathtub once they had been mixed with alcohol from the previous evenings.

Paramedics battled to revive the singer but she was pronounced dead at 3.55pm, hours before she had been due to perform at a pre-Grammys party at the same hotel.

Los Angeles coroner's office refused to comment on rumours that

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