Posted on 01/20/2011 10:40:50 AM PST by chickadee
This is most peculiar. No one would know who she was if she didn't come forward.
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She will lose. Can’t sue someone because you are an idiot. At least not in this case.
The mall should provide seeing-eye dogs to all patrons, whether they are blind or merely stupid.
That’s pretty funny.
I watched her on ABC this AM & I ended up screaming at her on the TV screen!!!
What a complete dunce!!
She works in that mall & she didn’t know where the fountain was???
She’s mad that someone didn’t come immediately & help her & determine that she was OK?
I watched the tape play over & over again. There is no discernable time lapse between when she gets immersed & when she is up & out of the fountain. She walks off.
Just how many security people are there in a mall of any size? How far apart are they spaced?
As quickly as she exited the fountain & the scene, I don’t know how any security person could have gotten to there quickly enough.
She is whining about ‘being embarrassed’. She should be embarrassed——she works there!!! She isn’t paying any atention to where she is going—& she is lucky she didn’t step off on some stairs or something far more dangerous.
This woman & her lawyer are just looking for another payday.
Sure am glad she doesn’t drive in my state.
She will win a settlement. And it’s obviously worth it to her to go public to score some cash.
It’s called “The Striesand Effect.”
As in B.S.
McDonald’s coffee lady sues again?
“No one would know who she was if she didn’t come forward.”
Exactly!
And how could Security have come to help - she got up so fast she was outta there immediately!
Unless the mall was aware that texting females were falling into the fountain on a regular basis, and made the business decision to settle with them out of court instead of fixing the “problem,” then this has nothing to do with the McDonald’s case.
She will win a settlement. And it’s obviously worth it to her to go public to score some cash.
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The only basis I can see for a suit here is that someone in the employ of the mall made public the security video of the incident. And I have no idea if that is a crime or not.
Judgement for the plaintiff in the amount of 1 dollar, and you have to pay court costs.
But really, no one knew who she was, she was just another anonymous idiot. Now she is outed publically as clueless (the filmed incident) and an idiot (thinking she is entitled to some settlement).
Toward the end of the video, she admits that texting is what caused her fall.
I have seen the video several times and didn’t see anyone who noticed her fall. Perhaps someone in one of the stores did, but it didn’t seem like the traffic on the mall took notice.
There is no way to identify her from the second generation video that went viral. What a dope to come forward.
Yes you can, it’s done every day......
And now she can sue ABC when the video of her interview goes on YouTube showing that ABC played the video of her falling and people laughing over and over and over. Lawsuits are the lottery that dum-dums on our juries all want to win.
Likely an Obama lover.
How about, if she wins, the court award her all the change she can pick out of that very fountain? Give her 60 seconds on the clock, Your Honor.
Go!
She can so sue. You have to get photo releases before using someone’s photo. The security company running the cameras is in major trouble here and they know it. Someone is going to get fired. That poor woman. People are so crass. I cannot believe that not one of the security guards went over to ask her if she was okay. What are they being paid for?
She should have stayed anonymous.
Not a crime but it is an intentional tort.
There was very little chance that security would have known who to ask for a “photo release” as the figure is so small in the video and completely unidentifiable.
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