Did you see the lady trip while texting?

oldsaw wrote: Leaking and posting the video is the basis of the suit. Aside from privacy issues, there is concern over the security team failing to render assistance, but only if the stupidity was witnessed "live". And the maintenance guy wasn't exactly hustling to help or clean the slippery tile.

What privacy issues? You have been warned you are on camera at the doors to the building. YOU HAVE NO PRIVACY IN PUBLIC.

And what does the security team rendering assistance have to do with anything? Sounds like that would be managements decision as to whether or not they were doing their jobs. If I was there, I wouldn't help the stupid twat either!

Nuisance suit. Shotgun lawsuits to anyone remotely associated; the mall, the security, the company that built the pool, the poor janitor that filled the pool, Verizon for the phone and on and on; they all want her to go away so they all pony up $100 each.

See how easy that was?

Fetch me dat Bermuda brochure.

HiTempguy wrote: What privacy issues? You have been warned you are on camera at the doors to the building. YOU HAVE NO PRIVACY IN PUBLIC.

I simply noted the basis of a possible suit; never condoned it.

And what does the security team rendering assistance have to do with anything? Sounds like that would be managements decision as to whether or not they were doing their jobs.

If you re-read my post, you'll see recognition of the possiblity the security tape may have been viewed and copied after the event. And, management cannot make a decision until it is informed......

If I was there, I wouldn't help the stupid twat either!

This is why we can't have nice things.

oldsaw wrote: This is why we can't have nice things.

Sorry, I mis-read the intent of your post. I'll go be a shiny happy person elsewhere

On a side note, QWERTY phones dont help. Compared to a standard number pad, they require much more concetration.

I can do just about anything short of driving and text one handed with only occasional glances at the screen on my "ancient" RAZR. The short time I had with a QWERTY phone texting required my full attention.

Back on-topic, this stinks of scam.

i'm sure she will get a web redemption on Tosh.0..

Klayfish wrote: I work just a few miles from the Berkshire Mall, so this story is the biggest thing going here. The law suit would stem out of the release of the surveillance video. Her atty will claim that releasing it caused her emotional distress, etc... Besides doing auto claims, I also work with general liability claims such as slip and falls. This case is a bit extreme and unique, but we see things of a similar nature frequently. There are red flags all over this. I would not at all be surprised if at the end she finally admits it was all staged. She has a prior record, owes lots of people lots of money, and a good look at the video gives clues that it was staged.

in which case she needs her day in court.... as a defendant

Update:

The Security Guard that put it up on YouTube got fired.

I expected he would get fired.
I hope he has a good liability umbrella policy because I expect the lawyers for the mall to pin all the "emotional and embarrassment" claims onto him directly.

As a security guard he probably doesn't have any money and won't be named in the suit. Broke people don't get sued because the lawyers know they won't get paid their 33+%

How much gets tacked onto the lawsuit for this "humiliation"

The pic is shopped, but it should be real.

Toyman01 wrote: As a security guard he probably doesn't have any money and won't be named in the suit. Broke people don't get sued because the lawyers know they won't get paid their 33+%

Nonsense. I'm in three right now. People who sue after doing dumb things is nothing new. One of my friends is in a similar case. He was in a bus stop picking up passengers. Innocent victim was walking down the street watching a movie on his iPad. He fell off the curb and cut his head on the back of the bus. He is suing for 10mil.

Wally- how likely is the iPad watching dumbass likely to be paid thousands to go away?

For the most part they have stopped paying people to go away but they still have to pay a lawyer to defend the case and take workers invoved away from their job to testify so every one of these lawsuits costs us, and therefore the customers and taxpayers, a bit of money that it shouldn't.