NEW YORK — Benjamin Scherler was walking home on Sunday night when he spotted a sign at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens that seemed to scream out for help.
The letters E and S on marquee at Elmhurst Hospital on Broadway in Queens seemed to have fizzled out, leaving a distinctive message.
The resulting effect is that the sign now says, “Im hurt” — a too-perfect message for an emergency and trauma center.
Scherler, signaled the Times about the fateful lettering. The 41-year-old Jackson Heights resident said he was walking home Sunday night when he saw the signage and was so taken that he took a snapshot.
“I think I’m going to start referring to it as the ‘Wheel of Fortune’ hospital,” Scherler told the New York Times.
When shown the photo, hospital spokesman Dario Centorcelli told/asked the Times, “Oh, God, are we going to get this fixed?”
A Times reporter posited that the change could have been a “result of karmic energy emanating from the emergency room, or the purposeful sabotage of a emergency room patient who was tired of waiting.”
But Centorcelli said he didn’t believe it was anything more than a couple of bulbs going out.
SOURCE: NBC New York
Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 6:18 pm by Lin McNulty
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