Macy’s escalator grabs boy’s thumb
From Times Wire Reports
A 2-year-old boy from Mississippi caught his thumb in an escalator at Macy’s department store during the Christmas shopping rush and had to undergo surgery, police said.
Michael Gratereaux, from Pascagoula, stuck his left thumb in the escalator as he rode up inside the department store’s flagship location in midtown Manhattan, police said.
Officials at Bellevue Hospital performed surgery Sunday night on the boy’s “severely injured” thumb.
The unidentified boy was listed in stable condition at the hospital Monday.
