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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 Read the rest of this entry »

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