'Trampled' Wal-Mart Shopper Has History Of Injury Claims

WKMG ^ | December 4, 2003 | Tony Pipitone

[KellyAdmirer]

So ol' George Will, quick to leap on conservatives as uncaring or something in his column, was snookered again. LOL. Serves him right, that ersatz conservative.

[netmilsmom]

Sound like someone???

[Orangedog]

here's some of what Vanlester has claimed over the years under some of her various legal last names: Rastellini, Findley, Crabtree, Platt and Vanlester.

Looks like she's almost been married as many times as my ex wife.

[dogbyte12]

If the videotapes, and the doctors prove she is making this up, she needs to do some serious jail time. I am sick and tired of legal fraud. She needs to be the poster child for people getting their asses tossed in jail for making crap up.

[CindyDawg]

It would be interesting to know if she used the same law firm each time too.

[Blood of Tyrants]

If we were to adopt a loser pays system, this kind of "judicial lottery" would stop.

[SamAdams76]

I am so sick of this lowlife scum like this scamming honest people and good companies like Wal-Mart. Why can't we prosecute these people and throw them in jail?

In my workplace, I see faked injuries all the time. Phantom "back pain" usually which results in a doctor's note giving the employee a few weeks off - usually in the summertime when the weather is nice outside. What doctor isn't going to write a note if a patient complains of back pain with all the malpractice suits out there? So the employee gets a few weeks off - no questions asked.

[Samwise]

OK. Now I don't feel so bad about the amart alec joke I made when I first read about this.

[pogo101]

Human Leech Alert.

[Az Joe]

Hmmmm, I think I am going to stand next to the entrance of the next public restroom Rosie O'Donnel waddles into.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I can't say that I am surprised.

What I am more surprised at is the willingness of people to accept it at face value.

I need to work on my cynicism

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks Samwise!

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Boy, I guess some people are just really unlucky.

[Henrietta]

"For several years, every time they do this, people get trampled," she said last week..."

And yet she continued to brave the danger! Oh, the humanity!

Parasites like this are brought to you by your local personal injury attorney and our tort system which does not require losers to pay.

[rickmichaels]

She's a charlatan, plain and simple.

[jagrmeister]

LOL. Those nasty big corporations keep causing her to fall and injure herself. Why don't they just leave the little guy alone!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I wonder is her real name is "Carol Gene Vanlester".

[ardara]

There seems to be a get-Wal-mart gang in the media these days. I don't think this story would have legs if it 'occurred in Lord and Taylor's. I wonder why?

[stainlessbanner]

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