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Woman Sues Zoo Over Splashing Dolphins


Animals  (tags: animals, dolphins, lawsuit, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 116 days ago - news.yahoo.com
A woman is suing a Chicago-area zoo for a 2008 fall near a dolphin exhibit, accusing zookeepers of encouraging the mammals to splash water and then failing to protect spectators from wet surfaces, local media reported on Thursday.
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Cher C. (773)
Friday August 21, 2009, 4:36 pm


Thnx for the news Eureka hun!!!!


 

AwayNoPost NoForwards (241)
Friday August 21, 2009, 5:23 pm
When I read this I thought HUH? Emotional suffering for slipping on a wet surface? Okay, anyone can slip and break a leg. But if you are going to watch dolphins perform, and you notice they are spraying water over spectators, are you not an idiot for then trying to sue becaue you slipped on a wet patch?

The moral here is, MIND YOUR STEP when near water, especially a dolphin pool.

Seems that a lot of people in the world has nothing better to do than sue others when they don't mind where they step in life. Always an eye on the fast buck - Stu the woof's saga is just a case in point here. There the dog suffered inprisonment because of some trigger happy lawyer and a woman on the take.

Remind me to never visit the USA again - just helping someone there can leave one wide open for a law suti, if the help was not good enough etc.
 

Jaclin O. (175)
Friday August 21, 2009, 5:38 pm
Only in America would someone sue for something like this -honestly how absolutely ridiculous!!!
 

Terry G. (36)
Friday August 21, 2009, 6:28 pm
A woman is suing a Chicago-area zoo for a 2008 fall near a dolphin exhibit, accusing zookeepers of encouraging the mammals to splash water and then failing to protect spectators from wet surfaces..... The woman should look where she is putting her feet...and if she didn't want to get wet,she should have stayed at home....or wore some shoes with a proper grip on them! .... I have no sympathy for her what so ever!
 

Nick H. (944)
Friday August 21, 2009, 7:44 pm
I'd like to throw that lady in the cobra cage. What a jackass.
 

Raffi Sabra Mu is Gone (339)
Friday August 21, 2009, 7:52 pm
Duhhhhh! I need to hook her up with the guy who blamed his cat for downloading all that child porn....what a goof!
 

Kathy W. (301)
Friday August 21, 2009, 8:05 pm
Oh honestly! Like she didn't know there would be water there where the dolphins were 'performing'. I think she's just looking for easy money...
Thanks Cher.
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (266)
Saturday August 22, 2009, 9:48 am
Oh my word... she shouldn't visit the zoo which is full of animals if she doesn't want to get herself wet and dirty.. silly girl
 

Gillian M. (112)
Saturday August 22, 2009, 2:12 pm
My favourite story is about a woman who sued a store because she fell over an uncontrolled child and, yes you've guessed it, it was hers AND she WON! How stupid are the courts?
 

AwayNoPost NoForwards (241)
Saturday August 22, 2009, 6:26 pm
Gillian, I don't know if it is the courts that are stupid. I think there is a myriad of stupid laws in the USA. The courts have no choice - if there is a 'smart' enough lawyer fronting for a greedy citizen... Moral corruption deluxe.
 

NoForwards G. (130)
Tuesday August 25, 2009, 4:25 am
Normally, one gets wet when a dolphin dives into the water. That suing case was very silly.
 
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