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Nov. 12th, 2004 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqChoo-a-woo! It's the Stupid Express pulling into the station.
Every once in awhile a story hits the news that reminds us that we have not yet plumbed the deepest depths of human stupidity. I don't know which is worse in this one, the incident itself, or the fact that she actually found a lawyer to take her case. Oy.
The article is in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, but I've cut & pasted it below the cut as well.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lionkingcmsl will especially appreciate this one, I think. Read the first line of the story. Read it again. "for failing to warn... what?!"
And with her last functioning brain cell she called a lawyer.
Woman struck by train sues railroad
By Matthew Junker
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, November 5, 2004
A Jeannette woman who was slightly injured after being struck by a train while walking along railroad tracks sued Norfolk Southern Corp. Thursday for failing to warn pedestrians that trains travel on tracks.
Patricia M. Frankhouser, of 910 Scott Ave., is seeking an unspecified amount in excess of $30,000 from the Norfolk, Va., rail transport company for the Jan. 6 incident that left her with a broken finger, cuts on her hand and pain, according to the suit.
Greensburg attorney Harry F. Smail Jr., who represents Frankhouser, didn't return a call seeking comment.
Within the filing, he argues that the railroad was negligent for failing to post signs warning "of the dangers of walking near train tracks and that the tracks were actively in use."
According to the suit, Frankhouser was walking along the tracks near Seventh and Eighth streets in Jeannette.
"Defendant's failure to warn plaintiff of the potential dangers negligently provided plaintiff with the belief she was safe in walking near the train tracks," the suit states.
The filing does not state why Frankhouser failed to hear the oncoming train and get out of the way.
It also does not state if she was crossing the rail bed or walking in between, or along, the tracks.
The case has been assigned to Westmoreland County Judge William J. Ober. No hearing has been set.
Every once in awhile a story hits the news that reminds us that we have not yet plumbed the deepest depths of human stupidity. I don't know which is worse in this one, the incident itself, or the fact that she actually found a lawyer to take her case. Oy.
The article is in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, but I've cut & pasted it below the cut as well.
lionkingcmsl will especially appreciate this one, I think. Read the first line of the story. Read it again. "for failing to warn... what?!"And with her last functioning brain cell she called a lawyer.
Woman struck by train sues railroad
By Matthew Junker
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, November 5, 2004
A Jeannette woman who was slightly injured after being struck by a train while walking along railroad tracks sued Norfolk Southern Corp. Thursday for failing to warn pedestrians that trains travel on tracks.
Patricia M. Frankhouser, of 910 Scott Ave., is seeking an unspecified amount in excess of $30,000 from the Norfolk, Va., rail transport company for the Jan. 6 incident that left her with a broken finger, cuts on her hand and pain, according to the suit.
Greensburg attorney Harry F. Smail Jr., who represents Frankhouser, didn't return a call seeking comment.
Within the filing, he argues that the railroad was negligent for failing to post signs warning "of the dangers of walking near train tracks and that the tracks were actively in use."
According to the suit, Frankhouser was walking along the tracks near Seventh and Eighth streets in Jeannette.
"Defendant's failure to warn plaintiff of the potential dangers negligently provided plaintiff with the belief she was safe in walking near the train tracks," the suit states.
The filing does not state why Frankhouser failed to hear the oncoming train and get out of the way.
It also does not state if she was crossing the rail bed or walking in between, or along, the tracks.
The case has been assigned to Westmoreland County Judge William J. Ober. No hearing has been set.
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Date: 2004-11-12 09:42 am (UTC)If you don't sue, you can't win.
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Date: 2004-11-12 07:23 pm (UTC)T.
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Date: 2004-11-13 03:58 am (UTC)