um.. sounds like her own negligence, because that pot of flowers did not walk. it was there prior to entering the building. this is a volunteer fire department. i think she may have gotten hurt by other means — how does this happen and it states “severe and permanent injuries” for tripping over a pot? did she run? was there an alarm going off? this sounds like a fraud case to me. too many whistles blowing!!! i bet she claims nobody saw her fall. this is just too alarming!
The plaintiff’s attorney is prepared to produce a witness that saw the potted plant move. Let this be a lesson to all of you. Never keep house plants. They are a hazard and if not kept far away from fools, could cause injury.
Seriously, this attorney should be hiding along side Bin Laden. They both have a way of twisting reality and should both suffer the same fate. Bin Laden wants us to believe Israel is the cause of his hatred for us and this idiot wants us to believe that owning a house plant is negligence. Ridiculous!
What is a fire department doing with a concrete flower pot anyway? I’m sure the poeple that are supporting them aren’t wanting their money going to flower pots. Come on! Spend what little money you have on fire equipment, not flower pots. That flower pot is going to be very expensive it sounds like.
Suing for this is all about a lack of personal responsibility. It is always someone else’s fault. Someone else is responsible for me. She probably was texting and walking.
Great another law. No texting and walking. I see it now. Great, now I can’t walk and text, drive and text or fly the space shuttle and text. What’s next?
Perhaps the concrete answer was that she was tripping on pot and landed on the flowers? The newspaper says she goes to the fire station to play Bingo – I guess she didn’t think the jackpot was big enough.
What really happened here is what lawyers call “intervening causation.” The lady’s lawyer is banking on the fire hall’s insurer/lawyer NOT finding out about the “little old [fire]ant who wanted to move a rubber tree plant (oops, I mean concrete potted plant).” As the old song goes, “Everyone knows an ant can’t move a concrete potted plant . . . but he had high hopes . . . and oops, there goes another concrete potted plant!” [Shamefully adapted from the song “Hig Hopes” from an old movie.]
Obviously, one or more ambitious fire ants decided to get that pot out of their way. They moved it — explaining the eyewitness testimony that the pot moved.
Unfortunately (for the lady), the fire ants were TRESPASSERS. The fire hall staff had no duty to anticipate the risk of the fire ants’trespassing or protect bare licensees like this text’n’walk bingo babe from same.
Somebody run quick to the fire hall and tell them to look for that fire-ant hill. Maybe they can get the successful ant (or ants) to brag about their antics in court and defeat bingo babe’s claim!
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um.. sounds like her own negligence, because that pot of flowers did not walk. it was there prior to entering the building. this is a volunteer fire department. i think she may have gotten hurt by other means — how does this happen and it states “severe and permanent injuries” for tripping over a pot? did she run? was there an alarm going off? this sounds like a fraud case to me. too many whistles blowing!!! i bet she claims nobody saw her fall. this is just too alarming!
Tort Reform… Tort Reform… Tort Reform
Lets stop this Guaranteed Lottery
you’re forgetting that if there was ever any significant tort reform… we’d all be out of jobs.
if it weren’t for lame claimants and ******* lawyers, none of us would have any insurance to sell.
The plaintiff’s attorney is prepared to produce a witness that saw the potted plant move. Let this be a lesson to all of you. Never keep house plants. They are a hazard and if not kept far away from fools, could cause injury.
Seriously, this attorney should be hiding along side Bin Laden. They both have a way of twisting reality and should both suffer the same fate. Bin Laden wants us to believe Israel is the cause of his hatred for us and this idiot wants us to believe that owning a house plant is negligence. Ridiculous!
What is a fire department doing with a concrete flower pot anyway? I’m sure the poeple that are supporting them aren’t wanting their money going to flower pots. Come on! Spend what little money you have on fire equipment, not flower pots. That flower pot is going to be very expensive it sounds like.
“What is a fire department doing with a concrete flower pot anyway?”
Well, obviously, they have a concrete flower pot because a wooden flower pot would be a fire hazard.
Suing for this is all about a lack of personal responsibility. It is always someone else’s fault. Someone else is responsible for me. She probably was texting and walking.
Great another law. No texting and walking. I see it now. Great, now I can’t walk and text, drive and text or fly the space shuttle and text. What’s next?
Perhaps the concrete answer was that she was tripping on pot and landed on the flowers? The newspaper says she goes to the fire station to play Bingo – I guess she didn’t think the jackpot was big enough.
What really happened here is what lawyers call “intervening causation.” The lady’s lawyer is banking on the fire hall’s insurer/lawyer NOT finding out about the “little old [fire]ant who wanted to move a rubber tree plant (oops, I mean concrete potted plant).” As the old song goes, “Everyone knows an ant can’t move a concrete potted plant . . . but he had high hopes . . . and oops, there goes another concrete potted plant!” [Shamefully adapted from the song “Hig Hopes” from an old movie.]
Obviously, one or more ambitious fire ants decided to get that pot out of their way. They moved it — explaining the eyewitness testimony that the pot moved.
Unfortunately (for the lady), the fire ants were TRESPASSERS. The fire hall staff had no duty to anticipate the risk of the fire ants’trespassing or protect bare licensees like this text’n’walk bingo babe from same.
Somebody run quick to the fire hall and tell them to look for that fire-ant hill. Maybe they can get the successful ant (or ants) to brag about their antics in court and defeat bingo babe’s claim!
Sorry — I couldn’t resist. What a silly lawsuit.