Texter Who Fell Into Fountain Chagrined Over Youtube Video

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Posted 22 January 2011 - 11:06 AM

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Posted 22 January 2011 - 11:19 AM

Amazing, and she contacted a lawyer. Must be hoping for a book deal or made for tv movie. Nothing like sky lighting yourself for having the inability to walk and text at the same time. Aren't we all glad she wasn't driving.

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Posted 22 January 2011 - 11:49 AM

I would also threaten to sue the company who made the Camera, then the Cellphone maker, and then my mother for being so stupid!

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Posted 22 January 2011 - 12:34 PM

We can all laugh, but it's because of people like her that we all enjoy the benefits of ABS, air bags, warning labels on the back of sun-visors, plastic bags and whatnot.

Soon the government, in its unrelenting quest to protect morons from themselves, will force manufacturers to disable texting if the built-in GPS determines that the device is in motion.

With such safeguards in place, the self-regulation of moron numbers through their propensity for self destruction has been thwarted, ensuring their ever increasing representation in the gene pool.

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Posted 22 January 2011 - 02:06 PM

"if you're textin' while you walk and you're textin' while you drive, pretty soon you'll be textin' from the afterlife. Douche-bag.

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Posted 22 January 2011 - 02:37 PM

Probably, the surveillance team could have been more professional and not post the video on YouTube. Think about it, would it not be an outrage if mall technicians started to post videos of Angelina Jolie walking around their malls ?

I understand if this would have being done by a by-standard. But this was filmed by the surveillance team. If we demand privacy from Facebook, should we not demand privacy from the Mall's surveillance department ?

I agree she getting a lawyer and suing is just her trying to get her 15 min of fame though.

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Posted 22 January 2011 - 05:20 PM

#1. shes embarrassed because she was shown falling into a fountain? Lets see how embarrassed she is walking into court on video for her theft and credit card fraud case that she is currently undergoing. No shame or embarrassment there huh dimwit?
#2 This clod idiot could have easily walked right into a toddler and crushed their soft cranium into that hard mall floor.
Since we're posing scenarios...

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Posted 22 January 2011 - 05:40 PM

ClaudeD, on 22 January 2011 - 11:19 AM, said:

Maybe she can use the one she has now...http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/offbeat/texting-fountain-fall-woman-has-criminal-past-20110121

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Posted 22 January 2011 - 09:12 PM

For wasting our taxpayer-funded courts time and resources, this moron's lawyer should be disbarred, and if a judge even allows such a stupid case to be heard, he should be recalled or removed as a disgrace to the legal profession. This is as insane as that idiotic McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit, where the jury should have gone to jail.

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Posted 22 January 2011 - 09:37 PM

Marrero represents everything bad about how high-tech has impacted the "unwashed masses". (Except that now she has been washed. ;-)

90% of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

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Posted 23 January 2011 - 06:35 AM

This moronic imbecile deserves all the ridicule and abuse that's coming her way.
Not for walking into the fountain while texting (although the video should serve as a warning to those not paying attention to where they're going), but for her obvious self-promotion and grand standing.
Moron, fool, imbecile, miscreant, and waste of the air we could all be breathing!!!

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Posted 23 January 2011 - 06:38 AM

Better for her to text and walk (into a fountain) than to text and drive (into another object).

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Posted 23 January 2011 - 10:53 AM

Hmmmm. First it was a hot coffee split on her skin... SUE, Now it's fall into fountain while texting. Looks like another easy money earner to me. Tough economy.

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Posted 23 January 2011 - 12:23 PM

Did the phone survive?

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Posted 23 January 2011 - 08:34 PM

You fell into a fountain because you were texting while walking and not looking where you were going. That's all on you.

You got up and walked away, with no indication of distress. Nothing that would make security think "She might be hurt". No limp, you didn't stop and sit down, nothing.

No one could tell who it was from the grainy, low-res video - any embarrassment you have from the video being released is your own damn fault for putting your name out there. Otherwise it'd be some anonymous woman, not 'you'.

If you do something this stupid you suck it up - so you're embarrassed, that's the normal consequence for doing something stupid. You just deal with it and learn your lesson.

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Posted 24 January 2011 - 10:44 AM

Everybody keeps saying how lucky it is she didn't text and drive and wind up running into something when in fact, she already DID run into something... and then left the scene because she only had a learner's permit and "panicked" - she probably was texting then, too. Any lawyer who takes cases like these is a hard-up publicity hound themselves. I hope they lose HARD and then add THAT embarrassment to their laundry list of shame.

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Posted 24 January 2011 - 09:34 PM

PhillipWarren, on 23 January 2011 - 12:23 PM, said:

Did the phone survive?

Yes! She grabbed it after climbing out. Her husband buried it in rice overnight and it dried out. No word on what she was texting about.

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Posted 25 January 2011 - 12:26 PM

There's two sides to this. Both with some validity. But clearly some who are posting are missing the point. She's not suing for having tripped on a fountain, basically accepting her own responsibiliy in the matter. Her problem is with the mall's releasing of the video.

So, while part of me says, give it a rest. You tripped and fell into a fountain. That's funny. It would be funny to you if you watched someone else do it. So what, you're embarassed, understandibly so, move on and laugh.

There's the other part that feels the release of this, without her consent, is perhaps a bit negligent. These cameras are there for security purposes only. The age-old debate about these cameras is security vs privacy. The cameras exist to provide security and anything witnessed by them that isn't a matter of security, really should fall on blind eyes. It's the only way we can trust these cameras to watch our collective backs, and not wield a stronger power over our livelihoods.