Women falls into fountain while texting and may sue because 'Nobody went to my aid'
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[QUOTE=ABC News]A Pennsylvania woman's fall into a shopping mall fountain as she text messaged while walking has taken on a life of its own after video of the incident went viral online.
Video of Cathy Cruz Marrero's fall has attracted more than a million and a half views on YouTube and been shared widely on Facebook and Twitter.
But while the world has found her fall funny, Marrero said she finds little humor in the incident because no one from the mall has reached out to her.
"I didn't get an apology, what I got was, 'At least nobody knows it was you,' " Marrero said in an interview on "Good Morning America" today. "But I knew it was me."
Marrero didn't realize what happened until she was already in the water.
"Unfortunately, I didn't have anything to grab onto and hold my balance," she said.
Marrero was replying to a text from a friend from her church.
Marrero said she rarely sends text messages but this time she decided to text her friend back.
"I never text and walk at the same time," she said. "I don't like talking and walking on the phone, either."
Captured by security cameras, the video shows Marrero texting while walking and falling head first into the mall fountain.
She then casually gets up, fishes out her cell phone, climbs out, looks around and walks away.
Marrero said she embarrassed after the incident.
"I was like, 'I'm hoping nobody saw me. So let me just walk away,'" she said.
A woman checked on Marrero after the fall but no one from mall security followed up, she said.
She said they arrived 20 minutes after she left.
[b]Fountain Fall Goes Viral[/b]
Marrero, who works at a store in the Berkshire mall in Wyomissing, admitted that she laughed, too, at first. But after being laughed at by millions, she said, no one has taken her feelings into consideration.
She learned that her fall went viral from her nephew, who called to tell her it was on YouTube.
[b]"Holding Those Accountable"[/b]
"Nobody called ... 'Are you ok?'" she said. "It shows in the video nobody went to my aid."
Marrero's husband, Walter, said security officials should have helped her.
"They should have responded to that immediately; they didn't know if she got hurt," he said.
Cathy Marrero agreed. "It could have been anybody's mother. It could have been a senior citizen falling ... and would they have gotten the same treatment as I did?"
On the raw video, voices can be heard discussing her fall: "Oh, my God, play it back, play it back."
At one point the tape is played back and viewed from a different camera.
Marrero believes the voices are mall security employees.
An official with Allied Properties, the company that owns the mall, told WFMZ that the posting of the video is under investigation.
In the meantime, Marrero has hired a lawyer to explore whether someone should have come to her aid rather than posting her image on the Internet.
Her lawyer, James Polyak, said they intend to hold the responsible parties accountable; whether requesting or demanding an apology and requesting an explanation on why this happened and how it happened.
Polyak plans to search for the identities of those responsible for making the video public.
Polyak suspects an official within the mall's security office viewed the footage and allowed it to be videotaped onto a cell phone.
Marrero said she has learned a lesson and has some words of advice for the younger generation.
"Do not text and walk ...," she said. "The fountain could have been empty. ... I could have walked into a bus, you know. ...I could have got hit by a car. It can happen anywhere ... anywhere."[/QUOTE]
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With such a weak argument, her case is all wet.
She's setting herself up for a big fall.
her fall makes me wet
You're doing it wrong.
She wants to sue because of her own stupidity? That can actually work because law is sometimes retarded, sadly.
It's a mall fountain, not some vat of boiling metal.
She's acting like she could've gotten hurt by falling into a small body of water? I thought you'd only die from that if you were insanely unlucky, insanely stupid, or a toddler.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;27545457] insanely unlucky, insanely stupid, or a toddler.[/QUOTE]
Something tells me she might actually be one of these three.
Your pick really.
Let's just sue everybody
[QUOTE=Fkpuz Version 1;27545688]Let's just sue everybody[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, this has become the American way.
Come to her aid for what? She couldn't have just gotten out of the fountain on her own? It's a mall fountain, not the current pulling you out to sea.
God bless the Judicial system.
Not that she is going to win anyway lol.
[quote]"I don't like talking and walking on the phone, either."[/quote]
:confused:
I fell down the stairs yesterday and my mother only laughed. Time to sue her. :smug:
Dumb bitch. Why should they apologize to her for walking into a fountain? Hell, if they can get in trouble for not 'apologizing' to her, she should get in trouble for playing in the fountain, a violation of store rules.
The fountain should sue the woman for assaulting it.
Just like that dumb 15 y/o girl who fell in an open manhole while texting.
[url]http://gizmodo.com/5312623/teenager-falls-into-open-manhole-while-texting[/url]
I made a picture inspired by this story.
[img]http://imgkk.com/i/7ono.png[/img]
[QUOTE=AlienCreature;27546449][quote]"I don't like talking and walking on the phone, either."[/quote]
:confused:[/QUOTE]
She just doesn't have the intelligence to carry out both of these tasks correctly at the same time. :v:
Suing someone because of your own stupitiy?
Stupid woman, but also a stupid system for being able to sue for stupid things like this.
Sometimes I'm amazed there's people THIS stupid. I mean, how the hell can they live? like, how can they manage to take a shower without slipping in the bathroom?
I'll never understand it... [I]*sigh*[/I]
[QUOTE=AlienCreature;27546449]:confused:[/QUOTE]
This woman is clearly a walking contradiction :/
I'm sueing Garry because I didn't like this thread.
HE MAED ME UNHAPPEH
[QUOTE=Carne;27547276]Suing someone because of your own stupitiy?
Stupid woman, but also a stupid system for being able to sue for stupid things like this.[/QUOTE]
The American dream. :911:
[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;27547315]I'm sueing Garry because I didn't like this thread.
HE MAED ME UNHAPPEH[/QUOTE]
IMHO I think you could even pull that off in the States, sadly...
Shame on you, US of A :911:
This makes me hate my country. Our society is majorly fucked by people like these. "omg i got hurt and nobody put a sign in front of the stairs that i might fall so im going to sue because it is wrong to not tell me I might fall down the stairs" Fucking hate these assholes.
[QUOTE=Encryption;27547415]This makes me hate my country. Our society is majorly fucked by people like these. "omg i got hurt and nobody put a sign in front of the stairs that i might fall so im going to sue because it is wrong to not tell me I might fall down the stairs" Fucking hate these assholes.[/QUOTE]
Don't worry, we hate your country too... you're not alone :sympathy:
She raises her leg as though she's trying to step up onto the edge of the pool.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;27547474]Don't worry, we hate your country too... you're not alone :sympathy:[/QUOTE]
:froggonk:
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