Paramedic Sued after Taking Severed Foot – for Dog

March 15th, 2011. By LucyC

Waste not Want not—or not—maybe? A former Florida paramedic is being sued for ‘stealing’ a foot—or as she claims, what was left of a foot, that was severed from its owner during a car crash.

The tale goes that Cynthia Economou—who used to work as a fire fighter and paramedic for the St. Lucie County Fire District—admitted taking the mangled appendage that belonged to Karl Lambert, believing that she could use it to help train her cadaver-sniffing dog. Lambert had had his foot severed in a car a wreck on I-95 on September 19, 2008.

Apparently, Economou believed that the foot couldn’t be reattached to the owner, and rather than see it going to waste, she took it home, as one does (?). In her words, “It was an unrecognizable mass of flesh,” she said. “It wasn’t a clean cut. You couldn’t even recognize it as a foot…if I had thought it was somehow reattachable and usable, I would have gone to my commander.” You know, that might have been a good idea regardless, because Lambert is now suing her.

According to court documents recently filed, Lambert’s attorney, Jack L. Platt, declared Economou’s behavior as “outrageous and went beyond the bounds of decency,” as well as “odious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society.” For her part, Economou pled no contest to petty theft charges in 2009 and was sentenced to six months probation.

So, next time you find yourself in an accident—make sure you’ve got all your body parts—attached and unattached—before they haul you off to hospital.

Do you have a permit for that Sasquatch? Jonathan Doyle, an amateur filmmaker did not, apparently, and therein lies the crux of what is now a lawsuit. Well, actually, paperwork is the real problem. Doyle didn’t have a permit to film Bigfoot. Really.

Doyle, having a sense of humor not in step, apparently, with the authorities, had dressed up as Bigfoot and climbed up Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire in 2009. It was all part of a film he was making, which included interviewing hikers about their reactions to a Bigfoot sighting.

As it turned out, Bigfoot was a big success. “People loved it. It was socially engaging,” Doyle said, according to My Fox Boston. “When I showed up at the top of the mountain dressed as Bigfoot and beating my chest, everyone just laughed and hoorayed.”

When Doyle went back to make the sequel—The Capture of Bigfoot—park rangers weren’t laughing. He didn’t have a permit. No permit, no filming. No kidding. He was told, interrupted actually, in the middle of an action shot—by a park official—he needed to pay $100 for a special-use permit 30 days in advance and also had to get a $2 million insurance bond. Naturally, the first thing he thought of was to call his lawyer. 

So Doyle is now suing the “Granite State” for not allowing him to shoot a Bigfoot film on a mountain without a permit—the issue being, apparently, the right to free speech. Free meaning $$Free, I’m guessing. 

What the heck was in that hotdog? An ex-mascot for the Kansas City Royals is facing a lawsuit for hucking a hotdog into the stands—a throw that struck John Coomer in the face, and, according to his lawyer, subsequently required three surgeries to correct the damage to his retina.

Sluggerrr, as the mascot is appropriately known, was played by Byron Shores on that fateful day in September, 2008. He claims he had no knowledge of the event—but he does say he was fired in October 2009 for unknown reasons—and then he found out.

Now he’s in court facing the whole nasty business, which the Royals claim is not being portrayed accurately by Coomer. Well, you have to wonder—if that’s the kind of damage a hotdog can do to your face, what does it do to your stomach?

Tags: Bigfoot, Kansas City Royals, Tortelicious

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