Showing posts with label elevator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elevator. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Great "security"

California -- In San Diego, a downtown security guard has been arrested, charged with sexually assaulting four women in a parking garage elevator, then taking a $100 bill from one of them, according to knbc.com.

The victims were reportedly walking to their car when a security guard directed them to into an elevator he was holding open.

While on the elevator, the guard stopped the car, pulled out a knife, then ordered them to disrobe. One of the victims offered the man a $100 bill to let them go, and he agreed, the spokesman said.

The victims went to police, and the suspect was arrested when the young women identified him as the perpetrator.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Safe at work?

Safe at work? You mean, apart from statistics showing that more than 13,000 women are raped on the job each year in the United States?
...And then you have intimidation, harassment, neglect, bullying, assaults, threats, robberies, theft, murder...

Story:
Myfoxcleveland.com reports about a worker at University Hospitals who has been jailed.

University Circle Police say the male employee trapped another female employee inside an elevator at the hospital. According to a police report, the man forced the woman inside the elevator, picked her up from behind and started shaking her.

Police say each time the elevator stopped on a floor, the man would stop, but no one else could get on the elevator because a cart was blocking the entrance. Each time the elevator door closed, the man would resume assaulting the woman.

Eventually the woman was able to get out of the elevator. She reported the incident to police a few days later."Obviously it's a concern, but University Circle is one of the safest places in the region, it's one of the safest places in Cleveland," says a spokesperson with University Circle Incorporated.

Monday, May 01, 2006

A campus incident

Some things are painfully clear:
- People tend to think "it don't happen here".
- A campus can be a dangerous place.
- Simple self-defense "tricks" may get you out of a bad spot.
- A push-in is a common way to gain access.

Also it is quite clear that the woman either panicked or was unaware she was being followed - all the time she opened the door to her room.

Story:
A man had followed a young woman onto the elevator and up to her floor and tried to push his way into her room after she unlocked the door.

The woman fought him off with a fist spiked with keys and he fled, but the incident was enough to worry many young women who never thought something like that could happen in their dorm.

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