by Commodore on May 3, 2010
Yup. This could go to court
People in the U.S. know that you can pretty much sue for anything. Pretty much anything has now become, most certainly everything after reading this.
A woman who fell through the window of a Lake View salon when she lost her footing trying to kick her husband is suing the salon, as well as a hospital that treated her — claiming an employee stole her jewelry and Blackberry. Melanie Shaker suffered “severe injuries,” including deep cuts to her upper arm, back and feet, according to the suit. The suit claims the salon’s plate glass window, located on a sidewalk “frequently traveled by intoxicated pedestrians,” is in violation of the City of Chicago’s building code.
That’s right. The woman who was drunk and tried to kick her husband is suing because there happened to be elements in their solid state near her. How dare a store put up a window in front of its merchandise!
Shaker claims the defendants failed to replace the window with safety glass, which would “prevent injuries from those coming into contact with it, including pedestrians, intoxicated pedestrians [or] pedestrians on their way to or from a Cubs game” who may fall inadvertently trip and fall into the window, the suit said.
Man, that sounds airtight! Case closed! I also want to file a suit against you, Melanie. It reads, “Commodore claims that the defendant failed to put a muzzle on her mouth which would have prevented headaches from those coming into contact with her spoken words of idiocy, including humans, intoxicated humans or humans on their way to or from anywhere at all, who may pick up a newspaper and inadvertently read her article.”
Why couldn’t a piece of sharded glass do to her what the glass did to Patrick Swaze’s nemesis in Ghost?
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by Commodore on December 9, 2009
Awwww, look how cozy he is!
Gollee! I’ve woken up in hospitals and Mexican prisons on nights that I have blacked out but I’ve always returned home with limbs intact. A black eye here, a scar there, sure? But all 206 bones came with me. I just learned that this does not always happen.
A western Pennsylvania woman who drank herself unconscious celebrating her 20th birthday says a hospital didn’t properly treat her, resulting in partial amputations of both of her legs.
That sentence is like this one, “Once upon a time, the end happened.” Some filler would be a nice accompaniment to the black out/amputation bookends.
Shanna Hiles’ medical malpractice suit against Uniontown Hospital and one of its emergency physicians says she passed out while sitting on the floor with her legs tucked under her in May. Hiles was in that position for more than 12 hours, and she claims hospital officials didn’t properly diagnose her condition and work to restore circulation to her legs. Instead, Hiles claims she was transferred to a Pittsburgh hospital several hours later where both legs were amputated at the knee.
12 hours? I’m sorry, part of me thinks that you bring whatever it is that happens to you on yourself, if you’re so drunk that you can sleep for 12 hours in a seated position with your legs tucked under you. A hibernating bear would wake up if he were propped in that position.
But hang on a second here. How is someone left for 12 hours untouched in a hospital? You couldn’t sit on a beach for 12 hours before some random person checked on you. She couldn’t have looked comfortable! …passed out on the floor with her legs tucked under her. That’s the position people lie in when they’ve been hit in the back of the head by a sniper. WTF!
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