Posted on 07/22/2005 6:55:20 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
July 21, 2005
NEW YORK --A woman who was branded with letters from the Consolidated Edison logo when she fell off a skateboard onto a searing hot manhole cover in Manhattan last year filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking unspecified damages from the utility.
She was burned just above her buttocks and on her left arm when she fell off her skateboard onto a cover over a steam pipe at Second Avenue and 13th Street in the East Village shortly after midnight on Aug. 11, 2004, said her lawyer Ronald Berman.
"It literally looked like a brand that had been applied by someone," Berman said about the burn marks left on Wallenberg's body.
He said she was treated for the injury in the Beth Israel Hospital emergency room and was released.
Wallenberg, then a Brooklyn resident who worked for Paper magazine, reportedly said she heard her skin sizzle and saw an "o" and an "n" from the hot cover impressed upon her body. Wallenberg has been told the scarring is permanent, Berman said.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, accused Con Ed of "negligence, carelessness, recklessness and culpable conduct" related to Wallenberg's injuries.
Court papers said Wallenberg, now a factory worker who lives in Portland, Ore., is entitled to compensatory and punitive damages because of Con Ed's "reprehensible and egregious failure and refusal ... to protect the public from this manifestly clear and present danger."
Con Ed spokesman Chris Olert said he had no comment on the lawsuit
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Hmmm... Could sue and make some money?
Isn't skateboarding in the street at midnight illegal to begin with?
If they had just not covered the manhole, this would be a different story...
Just an "O" and an "N?"
Seems they forgot the "C" as the first letter...
Has she considered learning to skateboard better? Loser.
So anyone who sees her butt will see the word "ON".
Or the word "NO".
"negligence, carelessness, recklessness and culpable conduct"
she accuses Con Ed of the things she is guilty of. Con Ed should sue her for manhole assault.
She could change her name to Neenah and get it branded on her butt for free.
This incident is seared, seared into her memory......
Or the word "NO".
That could be very useful...
Oh, well... if she landed just right, her "brand" could read "I DATED ED", which might just be true (and a consolation prize for her trouble...)
Anyway, what's with calling this girl a "woman"?
I missed that, I would have payed to see it. lol
Uhhhh, this one really doesn't sound like a blatant case of "Liberal's Lottery" to me. There was a manhole cover in the middle of a public place that was scalding hot from steam? This sounds like kind of a design flaw. I'm surprised no one had been hurt before. It really does sound like an accident waiting to happen.
A manhole cover should not be hot enough to sear skin.
If it is, something was done wrong.
I hope she doesn't get some outrageous sum of money, but it does seem like the utility has liability in this case.
I'm ok with this one. If it was hot then, it would be hot during the day too. All it would take is to have a small child fall on that same cover, and you could be looking at third degree burns.
Or OZ or ZO depending on orientation.
Just what I was thinking. I really think she had reason to sue on this one.
"Man Hole."
Heh-heh.
(Beavis Laugh)
"On her butt."
(Butt-head Laugh)
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