Sunday, July 29, 2007

Believe it or Not: Cleveland Screws up again!

When does something get so sad, that you laugh instead of cry?

From ONN --

CLEVELAND, Ohio- A published report says Cleveland has failed to conduct safety inspections on thousands of elevators and wheelchair lifts as required by a city law.

The Plain Dealer reports that four out of every five elevators have not been checked since 2005, violating a law that requires annual inspections.

The city has about 3,800 active elevators.

Among the equipment that was not inspected was a church wheelchair lift that's being blamed in the death of an 84-year-old woman.

A report says the lift at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ abruptly stopped, lurched and tipped on April 29.

Jeanne von Sternberg of suburban Parma died about a week later from head injuries a coroner blamed on the lift accident.

Maybe the inspectors were busy looking for their lost PDA's.

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