Bangladesh factory: remember the climber who had to cut off his own arm?

[muriel_volestrangler]

A worker in the factory had to do that as well:

Rozina Begum told me she was sewing on the second floor where the British high street retailer bought clothes. She was buried alive for three days, all the while speaking to the rescuers struggling to pull her out. And when they gave up on freeing her, she came up with her own solution.

“I said give me a knife,” she told me. “I will cut my own arm off. They gave me a knife – and I cut my arm here. ”

Her sister was never found. So though Rozina has lost half a limb, she’s just relieved to be alive.

“I am not sad I lost my arm,” she claimed. “Maybe that’s my fate. But I need to work and I don’t want to work in the clothing industry any more.”

http://blogs.channel4.com/jonathan-rugman-on-foreign-affairs/2013/05/24/aftermath-bangladesh-clothing-factory-collapse/

[madmom]

1. Why would they ever give up on freeing her if she was still alive?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Maybe they couldn't get someone close enough to do the cutting

Hard to know, without knowing exactly what trapped her, and how precarious the position was.

[msongs]

2. maybe walmart will offer her a job as a greeter at reduced wages since she has only one arm nt

[Life Long Dem]

4. I don't know if I could cut my arm off in a situation like that.

Just thinking about it tells me no. Once you get through all the flesh, you still have to break the bone . I'd need to be in the same predicament to find out if I would do something like that. And I pass on getting into that spot.

[HiPointDem]

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