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Texting woman falls in fountain, files lawsuit
ABC News ^ | 01/19/2011

Posted on 01/20/2011 1:09:07 PM PST by speciallybland

FRESNO, California (KFSN) -- Earlier this week ABC30 showed you video of a woman who mistakenly fell into the fountain at a Pennsylvania mall, because she was distracted by text messaging. Well now that woman is suing the mall for not helping her.

The video has received more than 1.5 million views since it went viral on YouTube last week. The woman in the video, Cathy Cruz Marrero, doesn't think the video is very funny. She claims she could have gotten seriously hurt and that the security guards should have helped instead of laugh.

"I'm just like dumbfounded. And all I kept saying was, 'I fell. I fell. I fell in the fountain. I fell in the fountain.'"

Marrero has hired a lawyer to pursue legal action. The investigation is ongoing at the mall as to who leaked the video online.

(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2manylawyers; frivolouslawsuit; frivolouslawsuits; greedy; greedylawyers; greedyplaintiffs; lawsuit; obamasamerica; woman
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To: MsLady

The fountain was obviously in a texting path. The mall layout was obviously negligent, performed by architects and designers with no texting experience. Everyone with any relationship since the mall’s planning is liable for this horrific experience. The court should assess punitive damages for the gall of not foreseeing tragic incidents like this.


61 posted on 01/20/2011 1:33:38 PM PST by businessprofessor
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To: DrC

“Your Honor, can you honestly tell me YOU wouldn’t have laughed if you were there?”


62 posted on 01/20/2011 1:35:35 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: DrC

My guess is that she’s and her ambulance chaser are hoping for the mall to do a make it go away settlement.


63 posted on 01/20/2011 1:35:48 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: speciallybland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg11glsBW4Y

After over 60 posts, why am I the first to post a direct link to the video? Helllooooooo people.

64 posted on 01/20/2011 1:37:06 PM PST by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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To: MrB

Think of what a boom replacing all stationary objects would bring to the economy.
Full employment for sure!


65 posted on 01/20/2011 1:38:25 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: speciallybland

If I was the judge, I’d tell her that she is all wet.


66 posted on 01/20/2011 1:38:48 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: speciallybland

Cathy Cruz Marrero is soooooooooooo FAIL!

Hey Cathy Cruz Marrero: Chew gum and walk at the same time much? =.=


67 posted on 01/20/2011 1:40:15 PM PST by cranked
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To: lowbridge

Thanks. I hadn’t seen it before.


68 posted on 01/20/2011 1:41:51 PM PST by Faith
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To: lowbridge

THNX. She should have gone in the deep end.


69 posted on 01/20/2011 1:44:52 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

LOL...oh yes you are so correct. They should have had a lifeguard to rescue her from being a complete moron.


70 posted on 01/20/2011 1:45:04 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Question Liberal Authority
In retrospect a little "shock treatment" might well have been called for here.

Fire on the pond; make her flip and flop a few times; would've added some dramatic flare to the video!

71 posted on 01/20/2011 1:45:35 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: jackibutterfly

Hey, everyone - see my Post #58.


72 posted on 01/20/2011 1:46:01 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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To: speciallybland

You each and every one have missed the point. The security company breached the contract and put the thing on You Tube. Now there is a major problem that the mall knows the company it hired for security is run by a bunch of craven retards. Yes, there is a problem. Someone is getting fired. Obviously some kid could drown in the fountain, the woman who worked at the mall was treated coldly, it is a cold awful world and you people just proved it in spades. The mall should be worried it has a major customer care problem because it does—it’s security company preys on the customers. Yeah, this is a big issue.


73 posted on 01/20/2011 1:47:19 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: speciallybland

I move the amount of fame these idiots are entitled to be reduced from 15 minutes to 1/2 nanosecond...


74 posted on 01/20/2011 1:47:59 PM PST by bigbob
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To: yldstrk

Once again, HOW do we know it was HER? Where is the proof? It could have been anybody - you can’t tell from the video who it was.


75 posted on 01/20/2011 1:49:30 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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To: NativeNewYorker

Excellent catch, NNY !

Not only is she a knothead, she’s a convicted thief !!


76 posted on 01/20/2011 1:49:37 PM PST by jimt
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To: speciallybland

So she is suing because she didn’t want THAT many people to know she is an idiot!! Apparently just her “inner circle” is fine.


77 posted on 01/20/2011 1:50:13 PM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: yldstrk

That was either a very good parody...

or you have fallen for the liberal “zeitgeist”.


78 posted on 01/20/2011 1:50:37 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: MsLady
Much like the case of mcdonald and the woman and her hot coffee, there should be a warning on the phone when you text
79 posted on 01/20/2011 1:51:36 PM PST by munin (Enki did it,)
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To: cripplecreek

Cue the “here’s your sign” comedian!


80 posted on 01/20/2011 1:52:03 PM PST by mdmathis6
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