Mum's iPad stolen while she was saving man's life
A Good Samaritan was robbed when she stopped on the side of the road to save an elderly man who had no pulse.
Mother of three Latara Ogle was flagged down by a woman while she was driving in Perth on Wednesday.
Ms Ogle told WA Today she could see the woman was quite distressed and she pulled over to see what was wrong only to find an elderly gentleman who had stopped breathing.
In a statement to Yahoo News Australia, WA Police Force confirmed at 3.15pm on Wednesday, a woman pulled over to assist a man on the side of the road with a medical emergency.
Due to her daughter’s medical condition, Ms Ogle is trained in CPR and was able to revive the man. She is also studying health science at university.
She turned to a bystander and asked them to retrieve a resuscitation mask from her car, but the man never returned with the mask.
After saving the man’s life, Ms Ogle jumped in her car and made her way home.
It wasn’t until later she realised her iPad was missing. While she was performing CPR it was sitting in the passenger seat of her car.
"The car was locked before that, the iPad was in it and when I got home it was gone," she told 9News.
“Whilst providing medical assistance, the woman asked a male bystander to get a first aid kit out of the glovebox of her vehicle and he didn’t return,” a WA Police Force spokesperson told Yahoo News Australia.
“It is unknown if this male went to her vehicle.”
The iPad not only included photos of her children, but her thesis for university, she told WA Today.
Some of the most recent edits were not yet backed up and the device itself is disabled, so it is of no use to the person who took it.
Nine News reported the man who she saved was in a stable condition on Thursday night.
Although Ms Ogle does want her iPad back, she does appreciate there are more important things.
"I think materialistic things can be replaced, but people's lives, they can't," she told Nine News.
"There's no price on that."
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