"Charlie M. 1958" wrote in message
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Bill in Detroit wrote:
Locutus wrote:


Easy, the bookcase tipped forward some, she fell behind it, and it fell
back toward the wall.


So her body mass and physical strength were sufficient to tip it forward
enough to access the plug on more than one occasion, but not enough to
budge it when she really needed to?

Makes sense to me.

Except for the part where she was in the habit of tipping a bookcase away
from the wall merely to access an electrical plug but she could no longer
move the bookshelf when she was fighting for her life. And also the part
where a bookshelf tipped into the room due to a body being wedged in
behind it didn't look odd to anyone.

I give up. But I still cannot grasp how she could get wedged behind a
bookshelf that she could move to fall behind but not move to escape from.
That is ... why could she move it the first time but not the second?

I'm walking away from this.

Bill
Sorry to jump in at the tail end of this, but isn't it possible a) she hit
her head on the way down and suffocated while unconscious, or b) the
wedging action of the fall compressed her diaphragm (that feeling of
"having the wind knocked out of you" that we are all familiar with). I
would guess "b". That would explain her inability to scream for help and
subsequent suffocation.

That's a plausible theory as well.

I think we can all agree this is a freak accident, but I don't think it's
anywhere close to impossible.