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!
LOL the headline should be “Woman Sues After Tripping on Pot”. “According to court documents, she is suing for noneconomic damages caused by emotional distress after being laughed at by the flowers . . .”
This lady is nuts. This has to be some sort of joke. I wonder if there is going to be some “response time impairment” next time she needs the fire house to respond. These guys volunteer their time to run into burning buildings- she is going to sue because she tripped over her own two feet?
And for the “no text and drive” law crowd–
On my lunch break today I was driving on the freeway.
I passed a mini van.
The driver had reading glasses on the tip of his nose and a hardcover novel in his lap and was reading. We were going 70+ miles per hour the freeway.
Matt, I agree 100%. How ironic it could be…”Woman who sued the VOLUNTEER fire department loses everything as her home burns to the ground. The firefighters could not reach the scene in time, as they had just been sued for negligence and could no longer afford $4 a gallon gasoline…”
Best question we all forgot to ask, did she in fact play Bingo that night? Was she so upset that she didn’t win Bingo that she thought this might be the other big win??
Matt, that is horrible about the mini van driver reading & driving. To bad we can’t pull people over just for being STUPID and putting everyone else’s lives at risk.
Why level of moronic personal injury attorney doesn’t understand “open and obvious”, “Actual Knowledge”, “no liability”? And what level of moronic “judge” would allow a piece of crap suit like this to make it to court? Our legal system sucks.
What the attorney is wishing for is that the insurance company will settle it as a nuisance as the cost to defend will be more than the value of the claim.
I see it all of the time as an adjuster. The only way to stop this ******** is to start defending our insured’s regardless of the cost and upon winning such a frivilous case, then countersue the attorney and the claimant for all of the expenses and I mean sue. Put punitive damages on the attorney for an astronomical amount.
After several of these are won, then these ambulance chasing scum sucking bottom feeders will slink away!
But, now the problem, the insurance companies will not do this as they are thinking about their bottom line (the stockholders). Got to pay those dividends!
it also comes to the integrity of the insurance company, because if they payout, they woud normally have to raise rates because of this. but this is fraud, and this issue needs to be stopped at the front. the costs needs to go back to the lawyer and the claimant to pay for all costs including the defense fees including attorney fees. insurance companies are starting to realize, that they need to talk to the own consumer. i would not want my rates to go up just because you felt it better to resolve out of court.
i am waiting on hearing if the concrete flower pot is planning to countersue. then we have heard that the plants plan a countersuit as well.
or
i am sorry, my firetrucks could not make it to your house, there was a pothole along the way that ate up the firetruck.
Representatives of local concrete manufacturers and horticulture professionals have joined forces, and plan to intervene in the Bingo Babe vs. Volunteer Firefighters case. A spokesman said, on the condition of anonymity, that the group intends to intervene on behalf of the pot and the plants on the grounds that both were physically harmed by Bingo Babe’s assault and battery upon them. Additional grounds will include damages for being falsely accused of interfering with Bingo Babe’s right-of-way, and punitive damages will be sought for intentional infliction of emotional distress to the pot and the plants. Stay tuned, folks. This’ll be a case to watch!
In addition to the injuries mentioned, she was scalded by the cup of McDonald’s coffe she was carrying at the time, because McDonald’s failed to warn her that the coffee was hot.
This just in …After being laughed out of court for blaming a flower pot for jumping in front of her causing her to fall over her own two feet – Shirley Hiser, shamed out of town – changes her name to Sirley Shister…
well, if the paper says she is a regular at the hall for bingo, then i’d think the flower pot is as well. afterall, it is made out of concrete. it’s not like it was made just in a matter of minutes prior to her digruntled excuse to leave. it’s not like the pot grew legs and threw itself in the path of this lady. i hope that the court tosses this out and charges the lady and the lawyer for a frivilous lawsuit that bogged the courts for a real case.
This just in from our Courthouse news desk. Staff reporter Sam Spades has learned that the promised Motion to Intervene in the Bingo Babe vs. Volunteer Firefighters case has just been filed with the court. The motion contained the expected allegations of assault, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress, but there was one surprising addition. The concrete manufacturers and horticulturalist groups added an allegation of negligence against Ms. Bingo Babe for failing to control her McDonald’s coffee cup. Apparently, Ms. Babe was toting a large regular coffee with 4 creams and 3 sugars when she encountered the concrete flower pot. Ms. Babe negligently mishandled her inherently dangerous brewed beverage with the result that the pot suffered a very unsightly dark brown stain, and the plants suffered from being hit by the scalding liquid and airborne plastic cup lid. Can this controversy get any more complicated?? Stay tuned for new developments in this ridiculous matter.
added to the already complicated tripping the concrete flower box, the local bee union has a local lawyer filing for loss of income and work wages. the bees felt that since they can’t use this damaged flower for any honey-making process. the hive is losing a few dollars for wages of the bees. remember the bees have a flight plan and use up some of it’s fuel to get to and from the flower. although the hive has save on fuel costs in this regard, but it has to uses more to scout for more flowers to recover the loss of this flower pots residents. currently the bees are trying to locate or possibly outsource more flower/honey business. the queen bee is furious since she been hearing more buzz from the worker bees and the newborns.
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.
Flower Pot Tripping, Cow Tipping… what’s next?
LOL the headline should be “Woman Sues After Tripping on Pot”. “According to court documents, she is suing for noneconomic damages caused by emotional distress after being laughed at by the flowers . . .”
This lady is nuts. This has to be some sort of joke. I wonder if there is going to be some “response time impairment” next time she needs the fire house to respond. These guys volunteer their time to run into burning buildings- she is going to sue because she tripped over her own two feet?
And for the “no text and drive” law crowd–
On my lunch break today I was driving on the freeway.
I passed a mini van.
The driver had reading glasses on the tip of his nose and a hardcover novel in his lap and was reading. We were going 70+ miles per hour the freeway.
Matt, I agree 100%. How ironic it could be…”Woman who sued the VOLUNTEER fire department loses everything as her home burns to the ground. The firefighters could not reach the scene in time, as they had just been sued for negligence and could no longer afford $4 a gallon gasoline…”
Best question we all forgot to ask, did she in fact play Bingo that night? Was she so upset that she didn’t win Bingo that she thought this might be the other big win??
Matt, that is horrible about the mini van driver reading & driving. To bad we can’t pull people over just for being STUPID and putting everyone else’s lives at risk.
I think you are getting your drugs mixed up – or maybe not.
Why level of moronic personal injury attorney doesn’t understand “open and obvious”, “Actual Knowledge”, “no liability”? And what level of moronic “judge” would allow a piece of crap suit like this to make it to court? Our legal system sucks.
What the attorney is wishing for is that the insurance company will settle it as a nuisance as the cost to defend will be more than the value of the claim.
I see it all of the time as an adjuster. The only way to stop this ******** is to start defending our insured’s regardless of the cost and upon winning such a frivilous case, then countersue the attorney and the claimant for all of the expenses and I mean sue. Put punitive damages on the attorney for an astronomical amount.
After several of these are won, then these ambulance chasing scum sucking bottom feeders will slink away!
But, now the problem, the insurance companies will not do this as they are thinking about their bottom line (the stockholders). Got to pay those dividends!
it also comes to the integrity of the insurance company, because if they payout, they woud normally have to raise rates because of this. but this is fraud, and this issue needs to be stopped at the front. the costs needs to go back to the lawyer and the claimant to pay for all costs including the defense fees including attorney fees. insurance companies are starting to realize, that they need to talk to the own consumer. i would not want my rates to go up just because you felt it better to resolve out of court.
i am waiting on hearing if the concrete flower pot is planning to countersue. then we have heard that the plants plan a countersuit as well.
or
i am sorry, my firetrucks could not make it to your house, there was a pothole along the way that ate up the firetruck.
Representatives of local concrete manufacturers and horticulture professionals have joined forces, and plan to intervene in the Bingo Babe vs. Volunteer Firefighters case. A spokesman said, on the condition of anonymity, that the group intends to intervene on behalf of the pot and the plants on the grounds that both were physically harmed by Bingo Babe’s assault and battery upon them. Additional grounds will include damages for being falsely accused of interfering with Bingo Babe’s right-of-way, and punitive damages will be sought for intentional infliction of emotional distress to the pot and the plants. Stay tuned, folks. This’ll be a case to watch!
In addition to the injuries mentioned, she was scalded by the cup of McDonald’s coffe she was carrying at the time, because McDonald’s failed to warn her that the coffee was hot.
This just in …After being laughed out of court for blaming a flower pot for jumping in front of her causing her to fall over her own two feet – Shirley Hiser, shamed out of town – changes her name to Sirley Shister…
Only her hairdresser knows for sure…
I hope her hairdresser doesn’t have any concrete flower pots . . .
well, if the paper says she is a regular at the hall for bingo, then i’d think the flower pot is as well. afterall, it is made out of concrete. it’s not like it was made just in a matter of minutes prior to her digruntled excuse to leave. it’s not like the pot grew legs and threw itself in the path of this lady. i hope that the court tosses this out and charges the lady and the lawyer for a frivilous lawsuit that bogged the courts for a real case.
This just in from our Courthouse news desk. Staff reporter Sam Spades has learned that the promised Motion to Intervene in the Bingo Babe vs. Volunteer Firefighters case has just been filed with the court. The motion contained the expected allegations of assault, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress, but there was one surprising addition. The concrete manufacturers and horticulturalist groups added an allegation of negligence against Ms. Bingo Babe for failing to control her McDonald’s coffee cup. Apparently, Ms. Babe was toting a large regular coffee with 4 creams and 3 sugars when she encountered the concrete flower pot. Ms. Babe negligently mishandled her inherently dangerous brewed beverage with the result that the pot suffered a very unsightly dark brown stain, and the plants suffered from being hit by the scalding liquid and airborne plastic cup lid. Can this controversy get any more complicated?? Stay tuned for new developments in this ridiculous matter.
this just in:
added to the already complicated tripping the concrete flower box, the local bee union has a local lawyer filing for loss of income and work wages. the bees felt that since they can’t use this damaged flower for any honey-making process. the hive is losing a few dollars for wages of the bees. remember the bees have a flight plan and use up some of it’s fuel to get to and from the flower. although the hive has save on fuel costs in this regard, but it has to uses more to scout for more flowers to recover the loss of this flower pots residents. currently the bees are trying to locate or possibly outsource more flower/honey business. the queen bee is furious since she been hearing more buzz from the worker bees and the newborns.
She’s probably an illegal citizen, maybe from Canada.
thank you all for the many laughs I got reading these comments. It is sad though that people can’t seem to be responsible for themselves anymore.