Looking for a media reference of the elevator accident that happened in the hotel I work for, I found a sure winner of a Darwin Award and I could not resist the temptation of sharing this with you.

Apparently 22 year old Jessica Inés Covarrubias is not familiar with the use of the phone or the use of the stairs. Surprisingly so, because she was in a gym working out at the moment of the incident.

She was working out in the “Provincia Gym” and needed something from someone in the floor below hers, so instead of taking the phone, using the interphone or just using the stairs to go down, she decided that the open shaft of the industrial lift that is used in the gym would be the perfect mean of communication, so she stick her head out in the empty shaft to shout to the people downstairs but somehow misses to see the elevator going UP, since an elevator cage and a skull are both solid objects, one had to give; and well… let’s leave it at saying that the elevator won.

If the elevator was going down on her, one could say that she was in no position to observe the lift since she was yelling at the people below her, but if she was looking down, how could she miss the enormous mass of metal going her way?

Anyway; I’m sure she will be missed by her family, but not by the gene pool.

REFERENCE: TRANSLATED BY BABELFISH.ALTAVISTA.COM

Pressed in elevator
It showed the right head when the elevator descended
The Western One
27 of 2007 July

Writing

Guadalajara, Jalisco. - A young person of 24 years to the being pressed by an industrial elevator dies which was within a gymnasium located in the colony the Beautiful Province, in the municipality of Guadalajara.

A lamentable accident was registered that cost the life to him to a young person of 24 years of age, of Jessica name Ines Covarrubias, neighbor of the street Plutarco Eleased in a negligence showed itself by the part in which the elevator descended, to ask for aid to him to some person who was in the ground floor of this gymnasium without noticing itself that the elevator already came near, pressing part to him of the head, which caused the death to him.

At the place they arrived elements of the body of Firemen of Guadalajara with the intention to make the maneuvers of rescue and power to release to Jessica Ines, but to its arrival the young one already had been separated of the wall and the elevator.

The body of the victim was identified by one of the fellow workers of the victim of a murder, of name Maria Guadalupe Sandoval Herrera, neighbor of the colony Hills of the Rooster.

Personnel of the Medical Service Forense was the ones in charge to transfer the body of this girl to morgue metropolitan to make the autopsy to him that marks the law.

Derechos Reservados Organizaci

REFERENCE: ORIGINAL LANGUAGE

Asomó la cabeza justo cuando descendía el ascensor
El Occidental
27 de julio de 2007
Redacción

Guadalajara, Jalisco.- Muere una joven de 24 años al ser prensada por un elevador industrial el cual se encontraba dentro de un gimnasio ubicado en la colonia la Hermosa Provincia, en el municipio de Guadalajara.

Se registró un lamentable accidente que le costó la vida a una joven de 24 años de edad, de nombre Jessica Inés Covarrubias, vecina de la calle Plutarco Elías Calles número 852, en la colonia Cuauhtémoc, en el municipio de Guadalajara, perdió la vida al ser prensada por un elevador industrial el cual se encuentra dentro de un gimnasio con razón social Provincia GYM, que se encuentra sobre la Avenida Pablo Valdez número 3608, a su cruce con la calle Esteban Huerta, en la colonia de la Hermosa Provincia, en el municipio antes mencionado.

La joven fallecida en un descuido se asomó por la parte en la que descendía el elevador, para solicitarle ayuda a alguna persona que se encontraba en la planta baja de este gimnasio sin percatarse que el ascensor ya se aproximaba, prensándole parte de la cabeza, lo que le ocasionó la muerte.

Al lugar arribaron elementos del cuerpo de Bomberos de Guadalajara con la intención de realizar las maniobras de rescate y poder liberar a Jessica Inés, pero a su arribo la joven ya había sido separada del muro y el ascensor.

El cuerpo de la víctima fue identificado por una de las compañeras de trabajo de la occisa, de nombre María Guadalupe Sandoval Herrera, vecina de la colonia Lomas del Gallo.

Personal del Servicio Médico Forense fueron los encargados de trasladar el cuerpo de esta chica a la morgue metropolitana para realizarle la autopsia que marca la ley.

Submitted on 09/07/2007

Submitted by: Luis Casarin
Reference: www.oem.com.mx & 27 July 2007

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James said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Muchas gracias, Luis! This one was funny as well as stupid! Laziness seems to be behind this accident, and sticking one's head in an elevator shaft because one is too lazy to use a phone or the stairs is a sure way to get a nomination! I also like your write-up! Thanks again!

Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Absolutely a winner! Thanks for sending it, Luis. And keep looking for that other reference!

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