A 7-year-old boy was injured Thursday when he was playing on an electronic parking gate in Brooklyn and his arm and head became lodged in the metal frame, cops and neighbors said.
Mendy Gotlieb was riding on the garage gate on Skillman Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant at around 6 p.m. when he got spooked and became pinned, neighbors said.
“They like to fool around on that gate,” said a witness. “He rode the gate up and his two friends jumped. But as it got higher he was afraid to jump — then he got stuck.”
The FDNY responded to the call and took about 25 minutes to extricate the boy from the frame.
“He was stuck up to his elbow and his head was pinned,” an FDNY source said. “Luckily the kid was small and limber.”
Gotlieb was transported to Bellevue Hospital by Hatzollah and was listed in stable condition.
In May 2012, 12-year-old Yakim McDaniels was killed in a similar incident when he was riding a garage gate in Brooklyn and his head became crushed between it and its metal frame 20 feet above the ground.