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I think he deserved it....
Man caught in industrial fan is killed
BY TIM CHAPMAN, ERIKA BERAS AND LAUREN POND
TIM CHAPMAN/MIAMI HERALD STAFF
A man with a record for burglary was killed Thursday morning by the blades of an industrial fan as he tried to wriggle out of a warehouse he had apparently broken into overnight, police said.
As the intruder was squeezing past the fan to make his getaway, he managed to kick the on/off switch into the ''on'' position -- with predictable results.
''He did it to himself,'' said Napier Velazquez, a Miami police spokesman.
The warehouse at 7124 NW Second Ct. belongs to Marantha Used Clothing, which takes in used clothes, packages them in bundles and ships them to Haiti. In addition to old clothes, the building is filled with used ceiling fans, tennis rackets and battered bicycle helmets.
''He was stealing just junk,'' said Lt. Bill Schwartz of the Miami Police Department.
The man was discovered at 8:30 am. by Anicette Pacouloute, a worker at the warehouse who was opening the building. An employee for just three days, she spotted the man's legs dangling from the opening that encases the fan and called 911.
''I'm shocked. I'm distraught. I've never seen anything like this,'' she said.
The name of the victim, a man in his 40s, was not immediately released, although Schwartz called him a ''known burglar.'' He entered the warehouse by prying apart some metal bars sometime after Pacouloute closed up shop at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The fan, which caught the man around the rib cage area, ventilates the concrete building that sits amid a row of industrial structures.
One of the blades of the six-bladed fan was badly bent after the encounter
BY TIM CHAPMAN, ERIKA BERAS AND LAUREN POND
TIM CHAPMAN/MIAMI HERALD STAFF
A man with a record for burglary was killed Thursday morning by the blades of an industrial fan as he tried to wriggle out of a warehouse he had apparently broken into overnight, police said.
As the intruder was squeezing past the fan to make his getaway, he managed to kick the on/off switch into the ''on'' position -- with predictable results.
''He did it to himself,'' said Napier Velazquez, a Miami police spokesman.
The warehouse at 7124 NW Second Ct. belongs to Marantha Used Clothing, which takes in used clothes, packages them in bundles and ships them to Haiti. In addition to old clothes, the building is filled with used ceiling fans, tennis rackets and battered bicycle helmets.
''He was stealing just junk,'' said Lt. Bill Schwartz of the Miami Police Department.
The man was discovered at 8:30 am. by Anicette Pacouloute, a worker at the warehouse who was opening the building. An employee for just three days, she spotted the man's legs dangling from the opening that encases the fan and called 911.
''I'm shocked. I'm distraught. I've never seen anything like this,'' she said.
The name of the victim, a man in his 40s, was not immediately released, although Schwartz called him a ''known burglar.'' He entered the warehouse by prying apart some metal bars sometime after Pacouloute closed up shop at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The fan, which caught the man around the rib cage area, ventilates the concrete building that sits amid a row of industrial structures.
One of the blades of the six-bladed fan was badly bent after the encounter
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Originally Posted by closer9
That was a helluva a fan to kill a guy from start-up...
Yea and looking at the photo it was a belt drive so must of been a helluva tight belt too and that motor must be kicking out a few hundred more horses than the 1.5 hp motor thats on it is rated at.