GRESHAM, Ore. — Police say a 32-year-old woman who had checked herself in to a hospital thought it was time for her to be discharged, so she set off the hospital's sprinkler system.
Gresham Police say Laura Samuel checked herself in to Mt. Hood Medical Center last Friday, but became frustrated because she didn't think she was being discharged in a "timeframe she thought was prudent."
Samuel, a Sandy resident, broke the telephone in her room, used the phone's battery to break a fire alarm and then used a heat source to compromise the wax plug of her bathroom's sprinkler head, setting off the sprinkler system.