Firefighter Gets 6-Month Probation for Taking Severed Foot From Crash Scene

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — A former St. Lucie County firefighter who admitted taking a man’s severed foot from an Interstate 95 crash scene last year has been sentenced to six months probation.

A judge withheld adjudication Friday, so 38-year-old Cynthia “Cindy” Economou was not formally convicted of misdemeanor theft.

Economou told the Florida Highway Patrol after the Sept. 19 crash that she took the remains to help train her cadaver dog. She eventually resigned from the St. Lucie County Fire District.

There’s no law specifically dealing with the theft of a body part. She was charged with a misdemeanor because authorities couldn’t determine the monetary value of the foot.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,523376,00.html?test=latestnews

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How about if you’re missing one, it’s priceless?:confused:

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But, if you no longer need it, what can you get for one at a garage sale???

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IMO, anyone that would do such a thing has serious mental health issues.:confused:

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I’ll let you know the next time I see one at a garage sale.:D:eek:

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SERIOUS mental issues…SERIOUS…

Who the hell steals a freakin foot!?

“Hey, look at this guy screaming because his foot is severed…let me take his foot home so MY DOG CAN PLAY WITH IT??? WTF!?”

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Firefighter, huh?

I figured it would have been the toe truck driver.

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…:D…

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No doubt! Were I the judge, she’d be in a room somewhere looking at ink spots.

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She said she took it to help train her cadaver dog.

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She can say whatever she wants.

She should have known better and almost certainly did.

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I don’t suppose she ever thought about the possibility that it could have been surgically reattached.

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I wonder if it was her personal cadaver dog :slight_smile: trying to train it to go find more severed feet maybe ??? heheheheh

she is wacked for sure !!!

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I wonder what she brings home for BBQ ?

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Secret’s in the sauce! :smiley:

I would be willing to bet that the previos owner of the foot was DRT (Dead Right There).

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Does she actaully have an officially trained cadaever dog? Did she train it herself, and how would she do that?

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She could indeed. Many SAR dogs are owned and trained by the individual volunteer as part of a larger volunteer organization.

Here is one local to me.

http://www.caesarinc.org/

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Now, ladies and gentlemen, you realize why we have so many laws. Because every now and then a situation arises which is so absurd that the law can’t really deal with it. I don’t suppose it ever occurred to legislators that someone would steal a severed human foot from an accident scene, so there is no law specifically dealing with it and the lawyers and judges are forced to try and attach some sort of monetary value to the foot.

I must say that I’ve never been overcome with the desire to pick up a bit of human anatomy from an accident scene and take it home with me. I’ve bagged it in some ice and rushed it to the ER, but frankly I wasn’t too thrilled about doing even that.

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You forgot the key word from the title of the article - “Former Firefighter Gets 6-Month Probation for Taking Severed Foot From Crash Scene”

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How can ya blame a girl for trying to get a leg up on things? Kinda reminds me of that old adage, give someone an inch and they’ll take a foot… :cool: