Lawsuit of the Day a Few Days Ago: The Temperamental Toilet
Here’s a strange little story that we meant to cover during the week but missed. From the Philadelphia Daily News:
Ever heard the one about the exploding toilet? Well, an Olney woman could tell you all about it, from firsthand experience….It happened on Oct. 30, 2007, according to the lawsuit, when a toilet the woman was using “exploded” in an eighth-floor ladies’ room at the 1900 Market Street building.
“Excess water pressure caused a toilet to explode causing plaintiff to be thrown from the bathroom stall, thereby causing her severe and permanent injuries,” the suit said.
And then they tried to charge her for an enema. The nerve!
So what injuries does plaintiff claim as a result of sitting on Old Faithful?
The fact pattern may be bizarre, but the injuries claimed by plaintiff Nikita Fulton are no laughing matter:
She said that she also suffered “severe and permanent” physical injuries, involving thoracic and lumbar spine sprains and strains and sciatica problems on her right side, and other ills.Fulton said that she not only suffered “severe aches, pains, mental anxiety and anguish” but had been compelled to spend “large sums of money for medicine and medical attention and may be required to expend additional sums … in the future.”
The Philadelphia Daily News gave this story a groan-inducing headline. See link below.
Update: A commenter correctly notes that the building in question, 1900 Market Street, is home to Cozen O’Connor. Cozen associates, beware of the eighth floor ladies’ room.
If she wins lawsuit, will she be flush? [Philadelphia Daily News]
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Comments
First to be depressed for checking ATL on a Sat. morning.
Suddenly, Miriam's colonic took a tragic turn. Seriously, I feel great sympathy for this woman, and I hope she prevails. The Froot Loops guy? He can go pound sand.
I think that was PE's tough love at work. The fucking dipshit.
Isn't that Cozen's building?
This post is addressed to commenter no. 3:
Not quite, but this story did give me a good idea. I'm not considering converting about 1/100th of the toliets at my firm to function much as the toliet above. The 'active' toliet would rotate every day and only I would know which one it was. I think this would be a great incentive to keep associates and staff at thier desk.
I saw the the picture of a toilet and thought the story was about Latham.
French firms serve buffet lunches from the bowl of the toilet.
I think that the comment "that we meant to cover during the week but missed," was LAT's subtle dig at ELIE.
I am interested to hear if the traffic here has dropped since Elie started his crazy racist rants. I, for one, have stopped visiting the site everyday and only stop by once per week.
One would hope that she flushed first.
Somehow the picture above reminds me of this website.
8 - Lat spoke at my law school. He said traffic has more than doubled since Elie came on board.
Whatever happened to that guy that sued Starbucks claiming that the toilet crushed his wanker
5 - Clearly "Partner Emeirtus" is the spelling-challenged (or, at least, typing-challenged) version of "PE"..."toliet" 3 times, and thier? Or is this Elie's idea of a joke?
What a TTT.
Hundreds of people are injured by exploding toilets each year. It's just not widely reported. The authorities consider such incidents to be better left unsolved, really.
11, indeed. And, I believe, more accurately, traffic has doubled since closet racists enraged by Elie's employment by ATL, have set upon this site as a means of therapeutically venting their repressed rage by flinging anonymous brickbats into the web.
16, just to let you know, before Elie was EIC this site was started by a gay asian dude.