96-YEAR-OLD WOMAN GETS TRAPPED INSIDE MOTORIZED MURPHY BED AFTER MALFUNCTION: ‘1 PASSED OUT AS THE BED STARTED TO CRUNCH ME’
A 96-year-old woman got swallowed up and trapped inside of a motorized Murphy bed after it had a malfunction! It is reported that the elderly woman, identified as Carol Smith, of Montreal, Canada, was left traumatized after the bed ate her up. Smith says the incident put her in the hospital just days after her 93rd birthday in late December. While at her daughter and son-in-law’s house for the holidays, she used their guest room, with a Murphy bed purchased from a company called Lit Mural in 2020.
After falling asleep, Smith was woken out of her sleep when the bed began to close up into the wall. She said, “At first, it didn’t register and then suddenly it registered with me, ‘I’ve got to get out of this thing. Suddenly, I couldn’t move at all.
And then I must have passed out because I could feel the bed starting to crunch me.” With the remote control across the room, she cried out for help. Her son-in-law called his wife to check on her, and she found her mom stuck in the wall bed.
She immediately rushed to grab the remote to release her mother from entrapment, but it didn’t work. So, she called for her husband to come assist. When he entered the room, he grabbed a black metal bar that was at the top of the bed, and began vanking on it. He pulled down on the frame as best as he could, breaking the bed’s pistons, until it came slamming down on top of him, pushing him to the floor. When Smith’s daughter and her husband checked on her mother, they found her curled up in the fetal position and unresponsive.
Smith’s daughter said, “She was grey, and she wasn’t breathing. just freaked out. I started crying and yelling at her, ‘Don’t go! Wake up! Wake up!” Smith’s granddaughter did CPR until an ambulance arrived to take her to a hospital
– where she was treated for two broken ribs, and weeks later, was diagnosed with a clavicle separated from the shoulder. The maker of the bed claims they “can’t understand how the scary incident happened.
