Posted on 01/30/2010 7:40:03 AM PST by KeyLargo
Posted: Saturday, 30 January 2010 9:05AM
Woman sues Metra after toilet explodes on train
CHICAGO (STMW) -- A woman is suing Metra claiming the contents of a toilet "exploded" and splattered her as she rode a Joliet-bound train.
Julianna Mandernach filed the suit Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court against the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corp. and Metra, claiming the Jan. 29, 2009, incident left her with injuries of a “personal and pecuniary nature.”
Mandernach boarded a Metra train on the Chicago-to-Joliet/Rock Island line as a passenger. She used a toilet on the train, and upon flushing, the contents exploded out and "splattered" her, the suit claims.
The suit alleges Metra permitted Mandernach and other passengers to use the toilet when they should have known it was not working properly. Metra should have repaired and replace the toilet, and also failed to barricade, rope or block off the toilet from public use.
The suit seeks unspecified damages, as well as costs of the suit.
When asked about the extent of Mandernach's injuries, attorney Francis Ostian refused comment.
“Spain has spent over 200 BILLION in developing intercity rail.”
Spain is about 195,000 square miles, Texas about 270,000 square miles, Illinois about 58,000.
One BILLION dollars are proposed for a Chicago to St Louis upgrade from 80 MPH to 110 MPH.
A cheap ticket is $25 for this route.
One BILLION dollars equals 40 million rides!
Cut the price to $12.50, so as not to make it a rolling homeless bin. Place the 1B $ in the ol’ lock box at 3%.
Hammer them on any upgrade, many will be available.
Chicago train toilets.
When you see it, you’ll.. you know what hppens.
You know how Chicago got started, don’t you? A bunch of guys were standing around in New York saying “Gee, I love the crime and the poverty, but it just isn’t cold enough. Let’s go west.”
[Richard Jeni RIP.]
Um... *ping*
This isn’t the first case of something like this that I heard, but nobody got sued.
Lol. Train?
That’d do it fer sure.......
Those train toilets tend to freeze up during the winter months.
The railroad has to, or should have, signs telling you to close the lid before flushing. The reason being just so that the stuff in the bowl doesn’t go flying out. Your best bet, though, is simply not flushing them.
If the railroad has the signs to close lid before flushing, then they’ve got a reasonable defense against any law suit, though no telling what a jury will decide.
This is almost as good as the woman using an outside privy with rotten wood that broke propelling her into “the accumulation below.” She had to be helped out of the pit with a ladder. An actual law case.
Or ate at Pizza Hut. that stuff would make anyone airburst over the john.
“Greg, what is the worst fraternity on campus?”
It is no more than a five hour drive on I-55 from Chicago to St. Louis.
After considering TSA security requirements, for rail travel you would be in St. Louis at about the same time as the so called high speed train. Plus you won’t have to rent a car when you get there and will have all of your stuff with you! In addition, you will not have to drive to the train station in Chicago and pay for Chicago $25.00 Mayor Daley per day parking fee and wait for the train.
Every problem should be this easy.
(LOL)
“Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
LOL!
Of course it does. Pecuniary: [pi-kyoo-nee-er-ee] Adj. Of or relating to the monetary awards available from the city of Chicago from an exploding toilet on a train.
Alt: A sum of money received by perjuring oneself in a court of law in a suit against a municipality.
Ex: “I axed fo some pecuniary and whateva, and I got me some of Barack’s stash!”
I’ve been looking for a thread to post this on, but all I keep seeing are references to this high-speed rail within other threads! Oh well... I’m going to post it anyway.
You know, it would seem that Obama never saw the “Marge vs. The Monorail” episode.
Monorail Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEZjzsnPhnw
Marge vs. Monorail @ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_vs._the_Monorail
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