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?
....”was she texting while walking”.....
My first thought.
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.
“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.
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.
Should be double that amount, IMHO...
Dallas may have been at fault, but damages of that amount would be grossly excessive
Third option - some vandal removed the manhole cover.
I would think that one should have to prove that the city knew, or should have known, it was missing.
was she watching where she was going? we’ll never know. Asking waay too much $$.
When I ran a CATV company we had a tech who left a vault open. Some guy was running down the street and went ass over into the vault. It ripped his ankle open.
That costs us a couple hundred grand. And one relatively new and stupid tech.
How do you not see and fall into hole that damn big?
I’m a firm believer the folks should actually take responsibility for their own actions... this is no exception. Like using a hairdryer while you’re in the shower and all those dumb ass tags on things that say what not to do that are obvious to the average person.
I walked into a stop sign before cell phones were even invented.
Their scum sucking lawyer from LSU was probably trolling the sewage treatment facility looking for a date.
When you hire based on DEI, you take the chance that your employees will walk off the job leaving manholes uncovered because their running buddy stopped by the job site with some good dope. You take your chances and win a few — lose a few.
There used to be a problem with people taking manholes to sell for scrap, if thats the case it’s difficult to hold Dallas responsible, how do you keep track of all the manholes on all the miles of road at any given moment?