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College graduate who lost both legs during Carnival shore excursion files lawsuit
Fox ^ | June 4, 2026 | Chris Williams

Posted on 06/08/2026 6:52:31 PM PDT by xxqqzz

A 22-year-old Alabama woman is suing Carnival Cruise Line after losing both legs during a Bahamas shore excursion. The lawsuit alleges excursion employees overserved her alcohol and marijuana before the accident. Her attorneys claim negligent safety practices led to the propeller accident that caused her life-altering injuries. MIAMI - A 22-year-old recent Alabama college graduate who lost both legs after a catastrophic accident during a Carnival Cruise Line shore excursion in the Bahamas is suing the cruise line and the excursion operators, according to her attorneys.

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KEYWORDS: alcohol; carnival; cruise; cruiseship; drugs; maryjane; moneygrabs; weed
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She jumped into the water and was sucked into the propellers. The cruise line served her too much alcohol and marajuana, so she was drunk and high. She just graduated summa cum lauda from some black college.
1 posted on 06/08/2026 6:52:31 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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2 posted on 06/08/2026 7:12:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If it ain't fun, you ain't doin' it right.)
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The cruise line should get ready to pay out a large settlement. “Under U.S. federal law, all cruise terminals in the U.S. are federal facilities and, along with our ships, are drug-free zones.” So IF as the article reads the woman was given marijuana by someone with the cruise line Carnival is at least partially liable for her injuries. There is also the matter of someone telling her it was safe to go in the water to urinate within a certain distance of the props.


3 posted on 06/08/2026 7:18:43 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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“cumulating in a hip disarticutation”


4 posted on 06/08/2026 7:23:34 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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What does her being a “college graduate” have to do with anything in the story?


5 posted on 06/08/2026 7:25:05 PM PDT by MNnice
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With a propeller injury like that I guess they didn’t want anyone to mistake her for a manatee.


6 posted on 06/08/2026 7:33:51 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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She looks like a nice, resilient young lady, her ordeal was terrible, she has my sympathy. I understand her desperation, but don’t like trying to soak the deep pockets for one’s own very poor choices. Inebriation and power boats are never a good combination. The suit claims a crew member on a catamaran operated by a third party (not Carnival) told her she could “use the water near the catamaran’s diving platform as a restroom”, during disembarkation. Ugh.


7 posted on 06/08/2026 7:37:23 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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O, the hugh manatee.

I guess there are vids of the crew/affiliated parties force feeding her the drinks and MJ.


8 posted on 06/08/2026 7:38:12 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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That’s supposed to indicate that this young woman was fully educated and an aspiring (......) on her way to Big and Wonderful Things, only to have Her Dream ripped away (along with her legs) by the Carnival Shore Excursion!!!”


9 posted on 06/08/2026 7:40:03 PM PDT by lee martell
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No amount of education can bridge the void of being frontally lobed deficient. Drunk and stoned and she’s trying to sue?....Ignorance is her strongest attribute.


10 posted on 06/08/2026 7:41:28 PM PDT by mythenjoseph (Islam is not compatible within a free society.)
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“Her attorneys claim negligent safety practices led to the propeller accident that caused her life-altering injuries.” In other words, she fell off the boat and got run under, should have went port side instead of starboard.


11 posted on 06/08/2026 7:42:31 PM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthbym because + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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She is lying. They are taught to lie.


12 posted on 06/08/2026 7:43:28 PM PDT by nwrep
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>>operated by a third party (not Carnival)

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She paid for the excursion (boat, booze & pot) through Carnival.

13 posted on 06/08/2026 7:48:05 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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She won’t take responsibility for her own actions. She acted so irresponsible and suffered the consequences but she won’t accept her own culpability. Grow up, lady!


14 posted on 06/08/2026 8:15:29 PM PDT by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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But for the grace of God.


15 posted on 06/08/2026 8:16:45 PM PDT by Raycpa
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On my cruises I have always had a pleasant experience with decent people that are like minded. I sure as hell do not cruise with Carnival. When you go bottom tier price you cruise with bottom tier people. No thank you.

Holland America was particularly good. I love seafood and on the Alaskan Cruise it was in abundance as was beef etc. They also had “high tea” mid afternoon and it was most civilized. Royal Caribbean is good also.


16 posted on 06/08/2026 8:21:56 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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Did you read the details in the link?


17 posted on 06/08/2026 8:22:54 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Pay the settlement with cruise tickets.


18 posted on 06/08/2026 8:24:45 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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“””losing both legs”””...

Did anybody think to check the ship’s Lost and Found desk???


19 posted on 06/08/2026 8:50:28 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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Is her name Eileen?


20 posted on 06/08/2026 9:13:27 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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