Posted on 12/16/2024 10:08:20 AM PST by DallasBiff
The family of a woman who died after falling through an uncovered manhole in Dallas is filing a lawsuit against the city, asking for $100 million. Her body was found three days later at a sewage plant
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Tough call, given my experience with Dallas public workers, are not the brightest.
RIP Theresa, being found in a sewer plant is not a great way to die.
$100 million crosses the barrier into grift, in my opinion.
“Don’t know about this, was she texting while walking or were the Dallas sewer workers negligent. “
The hole was uncovered and accessible to a pedestrian so the workers were negligent.
A person fell down an open hole so they were also negligent.
Was it the city’s fault the manhole cover was missing, or did someone move it?
Seems to me a pedestrian should be expected to watch where they walk. Lawyers do not agree, but it works for me.
....”was she texting while walking”.....
My first thought.
She was found 3 days later?
Sounds like she flowed downstream....
I’d guess she was staring at her phone. The number of pedestrians, engrossed with their phones, who just sail across the street without looking up is astonishing. I am always pro-pedestrian, but look both ways. There are too many drunks, democrats and drug dealers on the roads.
It’s not hard not to fall down a manhole.
Seeing what meth heads have stolen to sell at scrap metal yards I doubt it was a utility worker left the cover off.
Someone stole it to sell for scrap?????
Was it day or night?....makes a difference
“One of those witnesses, according to Shamieh, relayed what someone driving by the scene claimed to have seen. In an interview with KXAS, a local NBC affiliate, he recounted, “There’s four workers messing around over here. She calls them over and they start blaming each other saying, ‘I cannot believe you left the manhole cover off.’”
We had an employee at my work walk into a closed sliding door. It was caught on camera. He was texting of course and smashed his face up pretty good. He talked to a lawyer about suing but was told he had no chance.
which caused scrap yards to start refusing to buy such items (but they can be hidden in a load)
I'm thinking when you get up into the million range, especially for people who would have never amounted to anything in their lives, you have already reached grift territory.
Yes, 100 million should get it thrown out as a frivolous lawsuit, and the attorneys who brought it should be sanctioned.
I fell through a manhole opening when I was 8. No cellphones then. I didn’t see it and backed into it. Just got some scrapes.
When I was in my 20s, my leg went down into a manhole that was not covered properly - I stepped on the lid and it flipped up and my leg went into the hole. I scraped up my leg pretty badly but wasn’t hurt that badly. The part that amazed me is that there were workers standing around just watching (although I’m not 100% sure they were working in the manhole). No one offered to help me. Finally, a guy in a car stopped and asked if I was OK as I was laying in the road.
I was shocked and amazed, If I was the resposible city official, I would have moved the tent and roped off the zone and fired the maintenance "manager"
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