Does Your Door Bite?*
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Litigious World
We haven’t done a stupid lawsuit in a while, and this one, via Bayou Renaissance Man, is a gem:
Paul O’Brien is being sued by a woman who says she trapped her hand in his letterbox while posting mail.
Joy Goodman, a cake decorator in her late 40s, is seeking damages for personal injury and loss of earnings.
She claims the top of her right index finger was severed by his letterbox and she can no longer do her intricate job.
By “intricate job” I sincerely hope she means the cake decorating and not the mailbox stuffing. But I tell you, I sliced the tip of my right thumb off while making guacamole a couple of years ago and the only thing I could see that interfering with is…well, nothing. Damned fine guacamole though.
And what of poor Mister O’Brien, finding a bloody, skeevy fingertip amongst his grocery store fliers? Quel horreur! Countersue, O’Brien, countersue!
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February 22nd, 2008
What is a “cake decorator” in her 40s doing messing with Federal Government property on someone else’s land? Isn’t it a Federal offense to mess with the mail?
February 23rd, 2008
Well, that offense/lawsuit occurred in Britain, so no, not in the same sense as here in the U.S. I’ve no idea what their mail-handling laws might be.
February 23rd, 2008
What I’d like to know is HOW that mail flap “severed” the tip of her finger?
Didn’t she have the presence of mind to push the door back open when it closed on her finger?
Also I’m surprised at the lack of mention of the blood that must have been coating everything from the “severing” of her finger tip. You know, blood-smeard door and a trail of blood to the nearest E.R.