LAWSUIT AFOOT AGAINST FOOT FILCHING PARAMEDIC

TOES OUT OF JOINT

A PARAMEDIC who swiped a man's foot from a crash scene is being sued by the man who she took it from - even though it wasn't attached at the time.

Karl Lambert lost his limb after a high speed collision back in Sept 2008.and was airlifted from the scene.

But rather than return it  Cynthia "Cindy" Economou, a former St. Lucie County Fire District firefighter-paramedic took it and used it to train her body recovery dog. 
Economou admitted the theft and was sentenced to six months probation in 2009 for second-degree petit theft in the foot swipe, though she told the court at the time that when she found the foot trapped in the wreckage an hour after Lambert was airlifted from the scene, it was unusable.

She said: "It was an unrecognizable mass of flesh. It wasn't a clean cut. You couldn't even recognize it as a foot. If I had thought it was somehow reattachable and usable, I would have gone to my commander."
Economou, who left the department after the incident, said she didn't mean to cause Lambert any pain.
But the lawsuit filed last week, seeking unspecified damages called the act outrageous saying it: "went beyond the bounds of decency, ... was odious and utterly intolerable in a civilized society."