Smart people hurt themselves on government owned property.

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Still doesn't say the actual injuries caused by her carelessness.

I get the picture now. Just think if she'd been using the flashlite that came withe her phone instead of seeing how many likes she got in the last hour.

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And miss an incoming text? You gotta be kidding!!!

If it aint deep enough for some deep sea fishing, it aint that deep!

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I hit my head coming out of a vehicle that was in my shop.

Who should I sue? The car owner, my boss, or the assholes that designed the car that way?

Damn Explorer's got a slanted back side window frame that comes to a point that aint on my Toyota. I say it is the car owner that is the dumbass for buying the thing.

I wonder if that lady that broke her leg while stealing packages off someone's porch ever sued the property owner.

Yeah, that is what workman's comp is for. Sky's the limit when you knick yourself on the job.

I like the part about being billed from each doctor that walks by the door and glances inside. So true!

Ice Skating is one of those things that will soon be outlawed in the good old US of A.

First, I do not know the lady, so no she is not one of my own.

Second, I look where I am walking and if I trip, it is my own damn fault.

Third, I do not own a cell phone, so chances of me tripping and falling because I wasn't paying attention are slim to none.

Yeah, but I was looking at where to put my feet, not my head.

Did somebody say she wasn't?

C'mon man! At her age they are on that thing more than not. Especially when walking thru a parking lot coming out of some event.

I guess if a big old pothole suddenly formed and jumped up and bit me in the ass, I'd be looking to sue somebody too.

No, I have the impression that most people have cell phones now and are totally oblivious to everything else when they are using them. Especially younger women (younger than me that is).

But hey, if she can get somebody else to pay her medical bills and end up with extra on top of that, more power to her!

It's the American way.

That's why I pay attention when I'm walking.

Yeah, those are everywhere.

Surprised we don't hear about more lawsuits stemming from those. Especially from those in the pinball hobby that we know are so honest.

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I hear ya!

And heaven knows how many obstacles like that I have on my own property.

Makes me rethink inviting honest members of the pinball community over to my house to play.

I've got to get in and out of so many vehicles, that I often wonder what prompted the owners to buy some of them.

Was it a TV commercial? Brand loyalty? Smooth talking salesman? Saw some dude driving one with a hot babe in the passenger seat? Who knows, I never will. As long as I don't get some fatal disease from getting in and out of one of them, I'll keep doing it.

As far as walking thru a parking lot, my best advice so you don't end up getting maimed is to look down and ahead.

Hell ya I would! Stick it to to those self righteous money grubbing pinball tournament people!

You can come over. But from now on I have some no fault papers for everybody to sign before stepping one foot on my cracked driveway.

I don't care if my homeowners insurance will cover your clumsiness, but I just don't want to deal with it.

I really wanted to like this place.

I'm just glad neither my PAPA or MAMA were sued when they had me.

Glad Dave didn't sue me when he went thru my patio screen door. I got a feeling they handle things a little differently down in NZ.

Supposedly we are all supposed to have affordable medical insurance by now in the US of A. If you follow the government mandated laws, you are now or should be covered. If not, then the clear answer when you hurt yourself is to sue somebody else just like it always has been.

It might be difficult to do, but not impossible and the payouts can be very large. Although many were not on government property at the time, payouts of up to $100,000 were given to anybody that was anywhere near and showed some kind of possible related illness to the atom bomb testing that went on back in the day.

On my earlier post about using a cell phone while walking, it has since crossed my mind that after such a long event the batteries might have been dead by then, so perhaps then maybe alcohol was involved in the inability to walk without tripping?

But sober wouldn't somebody be able to easily navigate one? Unless of course there was no moon out at all that night and it was pitch black.

But then that begs the question of how come every body else that was there was able to get through it and not get hurt?

Or maybe this is just the first lawsuit there and many will follow.

I'm not trying to be ignorant, just trying to put myself there so I can figure out what happened and why it wasn't noticed that a big pothole like that was there.

That makes perfect sense!

Also it is possible after many hours of competition with those super bright LEDs in the games, you come out of the place half blinded and if you are lucky enough you might be able to find your car , let alone see a pothole. It's starting to make much more sense to me now.

As long as you don't sue me for tripping over my garden hose or my tortoise, I don't care what you do.

I'm doing my best!

I'm not sure about you or anybody else, but I am real curious what other random elements beside a pothole caused somebody to get injured when so many other people have walked the same path without any issues.

Not me. It's just a fact that potholes exist and there is no way they will ever all be filled.

What we need to do is get to the bottom of what really happened so anytime a pinsider or pinballer leaves his or her home to go to a tournament or whatever, they can be prepared and do so with the confidence that they will not be harmed, injured, or maimed in any similar way.

We really need to look at the bigger picture here because every body that is involved with pinball is important and just like that Air Disasters show, the entire situation needs to be gone over and over so it doesn't happen to anybody else ever again.

That is an interesting law as many residences and businesses do not own the property that the sidewalks are on. At least where I live they don't. It is city property and thus the city should be required to maintain them.

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The sad part is this is rapidly becoming considered normal behavior, and it will soon not be able to be used as a defense for whoever she or anybody else might sue because they get injured while staring at the stupid thing.