Woman may sue after falling in fountain - while texting

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you have got to be kidding me!


Fountain-Falling Texter may sue

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.

Fountain Fall Goes Viral

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.
 
I wonder if she is the one that was fishing for Marlin in AZ? If so, that would explain why that thread was shut down.
 
Her comment that she never texts while walking was, duuhh....obvious. Those of us that do know to look up every once in a while.

I hope the case gets thrown out of court. She deserves nothing.
 
I learned a long time ago anyone can sue for anything..... doesn't mean they're going to get anything. To some people out there it's like hitting the lottery...they go out & do something stupid then think someone else should be held responsible & pay.

If I had done that I'd pay for a copy of the video & have a good laugh with all of our friends :smt043
 
She said that security showed up 20 minutes later, but she left. How does she know that?

I am sure that the security guys were busy trying to clean off their monitors and trying to figure out how to get coffee out of their keyboards after witnessing that bonehead manuever. :smt043
 
There should've been rumble strips in the floor to warn her she was approaching a water feature....idiot... If she wins, I hope she is awarded a PFD, one of those cheap orange ones that she has to wear whenever she is at a shopping mall.
 
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Maybe she was talking to someone who could fence the loot she got throught the fraud case.
 
I think the mall should bring in the EPA and cite her for water pollution!:smt043
 
Disappointing. I was expecting a blonde.

She was also on the hood for stolen merchandise.

They fired the security guard for posting it. Bad move IMO. A simple don't ever do that again and get caught.

I don't know where the Berkshire Mall is, but I won't shop there.
 
Clearly the mall placed this fountain in her direct path. Furthermore they did not post any life guards in case of an accidental fall. :smt021


A famous person once said " Stupid is as stupid does.":smt038
 
Disappointing. I was expecting a blonde.

She was also on the hood for stolen merchandise.

They fired the security guard for posting it. Bad move IMO. A simple don't ever do that again and get caught.

I don't know where the Berkshire Mall is, but I won't shop there.

I won't have a problem shopping there but I don't think I'll be texting there.
 

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