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Due to extreme crack head incidents over the past 6 months, Faktura Gallery has no current exhibitions planned at our space. We are, however, focusing on updating our websites and planning shows to be held at other venues.

Planning for Pimp My Kart 2007 has begun... So you wanna be a PIMP ?

Also, Faktura Projekts is now an OFFICIAL NON - PROFIT! Check it out!!

I know, I wish I could keep the warehouse, but for those of you who don't understand why I have made the deicision to leave...

Miami Heral

Thursday May 31, 2007

Man caught in industrial fan is killed
BY TIM CHAPMAN, ERIKA BERAS AND LAUREN POND
lpond@MiamiHerald.com

TIM CHAPMAN/MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Lt. Bill Schwartz of the Miami Police Department inspects the switch the burglar hit with his foot on the way out of the building, turning the fan on that crushed him.
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Blog | Crime Scene
A man with a record for burglary was killed Thursday morning by the blades of an industrial fan as he tried to wriggle out of a warehouse he had apparently broken into overnight, police said.

As the intruder was squeezing past the fan to make his getaway, he managed to kick the on/off switch into the ''on'' position -- with predictable results.

''He did it to himself,'' said Napier Velazquez, a Miami police spokesman.

The warehouse at 7124 NW Second Ct. belongs to Marantha Used Clothing, which takes in used clothes, packages them in bundles and ships them to Haiti. In addition to old clothes, the building is filled with used ceiling fans, tennis rackets and battered bicycle helmets.

''He was stealing just junk,'' said Lt. Bill Schwartz of the Miami Police Department.

The man was discovered at 8:30 am. by Anicette Pacouloute, a worker at the warehouse who was opening the building. An employee for just three days, she spotted the man's legs dangling from the opening that encases the fan and called 911.

''I'm shocked. I'm distraught. I've never seen anything like this,'' she said.

The name of the victim, a man in his 40s, was not immediately released, although Schwartz called him a ''known burglar.'' He entered the warehouse by prying apart some metal bars sometime after Pacouloute closed up shop at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The fan, which caught the man around the rib cage area, ventilates the concrete building that sits amid a row of industrial structures.

One of the blades of the six-bladed fan was badly bent after the encounter.

Lt. Bill Schwartz of the Miami Police Department inspects the switch the burglar hit with his foot on the way out of the building, turning the fan on that crushed him.

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