This is fucked up.
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Nearly two hours passed between the time a Glencoe teenager fell to her death through the skylight of a North Side warehouse and someone called 911 to try to rescue her, according to witnesses and police investigating the weekend tragedy.
Jessica Savin, 17, died instantly in the fall after breaking through the glass pane of a skylight atop a carpet warehouse, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. But the friends she was with, who apparently did not know whether she had survived the fall, attempted to reach her over two hours without calling 911, witnesses said.
One of the teens begged witnesses not to call police, and at one point an adult woman was with the teens trying to find the girl, witnesses and police said.
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He called urgently to Collier, who had remained at the border between the two buildings, and told him to call 911. Collier made the call, and while he was on the phone with a dispatcher, a small group of teens and a woman who looked to be in her 30s, came onto the roof from a building to the north, 1385 N. North Branch, Gilmore and Collier said.
They were carrying a length of rope, about 15 to 20 feet long, and the teen who had spoken earlier to Gilmore and Collier said he wanted to be lowered down to get Savin, Gilmore said.
Given that the rope was barely half the length of the 45 foot drop to the floor where Savin lay, both men warned against the idea.
An argument ensued between the men and the other group, and at one point the woman cursed at them for refusing to help with the rope, saying "We're trying to save a life," according to both men.
Gilmore and Collier said the teen they'd spoken to again begged them not to call 911, saying, "Please don't call the police, we're all [messed] up."
The fact that her drunk friends thought she might just be injured and didn't call 911 but instead tried to rescue her... they were more concerned about getting in trouble for underage drinking than trying to save their friend's life in a way most likely to work. And they thought some drunk kids could lower one of them on a rope and pick her up? And (since they were assuming she was alive) what were they going to do once they had her unconscious body?
Idiots.
Aw, I loved that Pirates of Penzance!
My boss is back in the office today. Boo.
Dana, did you take the light blue, or the dark blue? I found a generic formulation of the dark blue at Walmart. Not sure about the light blue.
Um. I didn't know there was more than one kind of blue. Probably light blue, though. Non-Drying Sinus, in a blue gelcap.
Non-Drying Sinus, in a blue gelcap.
Yeah, that's the light blue. My joint was the dark blue, the Severe Cold. They may still have a generic...
Are any of our theatre Buffistas around? I need some back-ups/references for a "Wardrobe Mistress" being the person who cares for the costumes during the run of the show, organizes the dressing rooms and quick changes, etc and a "Costume Shop Manager" as the person who works with the designer to build the show, supervises the costume shop employees, deals with the costume budget, and perhaps (if the Wardrobe Mistress is a student) gives the Wardrobe Mistress direction. Also, and help on a less sexist term than Wardrobe Mistress would be handy.
Yes, my theatre is craxy.
I'm guessing you have my last name by now, Allyson!
I came in to discover netscape dead. OH GODS NO! Oddly, I do need it to work. But I couldn't even goof off without it!
Anyway, managed to get another browser working, but it puts things in funny places. I think it is older than even the netscape we use, and that's saying something.
Tommy, that's unspeakable. The mother seems pretty zen, or maybe she's still reeling or just not wanting to keep it going in the press.
Radio prank gets DJs suspended. I wonder if CBS Radio is going to be hair trigger for the next little while. I dislike morning radio and I dislike prank calls, so I'm behind their suspension. Just one more way to make the world like I need it.
The hosts of the daily morning show, WFNY-FM's "The Dog House With JV and Elvis," have been suspended indefinitely without pay, CBS Radio spokeswoman Karen Mateo told The New York Times in an e-mail Monday. One of the hosts, Jeff Vandergrift, apologized on Monday's show, she said.
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In the segment, broadcast on April 5 -- a day after the infamous Imus comment on CBS -- and again last week, a caller to a Chinese restaurant intersperses an order for takeout with lewd language.
The caller tells one female employee he wants to come to the restaurant to see her naked and refers to a part of her body as "hot, Asian, spicy." The caller also attempts to order "shrimp flied lice."
Sophia, when I was the wardrobe mistress for a theatre festival, my real title was "wardrobe site manager". In terms of Costume Shop Manager, I don't think I've ever worked on a show that had one. Most sewing crews had a "crew head" that performed these functions, but were hired on a job by job basis, or the designer her/himself was the de facto crew head. But yes, the running of the costume building crew and the head of costumes during the run of the show are two totally different things.
There's got to be technical theatre books out there that define all of these jobs that you can plunk down in front of the craxy theatre people who make you jump through those hoops.
Sophia, maybe you want to look at job desriptions posted here:
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