Woman Shut Down Hospital Roommate's Ventilator Twice Because She Was Annoyed by the Sound It Made

Hospital stays are rarely pleasant. They're high-stress environments where the body has to cope with the stress of recovery and the attendant loss of independence and privacy. Hospital staff are used to patients who have trouble coping. Except maybe not quite like this. A woman in Germany has been arrested for shutting down her hospital roommate's ventilator two times because she was irritated by the noise it was making, authorities said. Read on to find out what happened to the woman and her roommate.