Does She Have A Case?

This is all too ridiculous - she didn't hurt herself and you can't recognise her face on the footage. I really hope she doesn't get a penny out of the mall and that she has to pay the mall's legal costs.

I'm with you on that! I think she should be more embarrassed she is doing this than she was at falling in the fountain.

All she is hoping for is to get them to give her a few thousands dollars to go away.

Second comment unlike a dressing room for example there is zero expectation of privacy so the mall or anyone else is more then free to release such videos.

A woman, by her own negligence and ineptness, falls into a mall pool. The woman is not recognizable. Even her own mother would probably not be able to pick her out. Security cameras capture this and somebody puts it on u-tube. The woman says they should have helped her instead of laughing at her. She extricated herself from the pool in a matter of seconds. The woman wants to sue. FOR WHAT?

I guess she knows there is no warranty on her phone now that the battery got wet.

I have heard that people will sue for just about anything in the U.S. This proves it.

She should have submitted it to America's Funniest Video, then she stood a good chance to win some coin, but suing?? Dumb. I saw this yesterday on Facebook. I don't believe the viral video even said which city, never mind what country this was taken in and you'd be hard pressed to recognize your best friend in this video. She should be counter-sued for court costs and the company's time.
I worked doing surveillance for a time, every company has a greatest hits. Believe me!

She has no legal case.

She didn't injure herself, she didn't require any aid, and the whole thing was her own fault.

That's why her lawyer was so vague about the "lawsuit" and, I think, he even said she might settle for an apology. He might be doing this for some free publicity for himself rather than any expectation of collecting money for her. He might also be her criminal attorney, since she has legal problems, which would make the free publicity angle even more likely.

She seems more upset that they laughed at her when she called the security office the next day. That's what she wants the apology for--she felt they were making fun of her. And she is embarrassed about landing in the fountain, and then seeing it on YouTube.

But, as everyone has pointed out, if she'd kept her mouth shut, no one would have known that she was the one who fell into the fountain.

They might have been violating her privacy, in some way, by posting the video on YouTube without her permission. But she was the one who went public and revealed her identity, so I wouldn't imagine that a lawsuit on that issue would get her much money, if any.

The people in the security office who downloaded the video to a cell phone and then posted it on YouTube might get fired for doing that. The video is the property of the mall, or the security company, and they really had no right to use it that way.

I agree 100%!

Ha Ha funny!!....
anyway on a serious note - not like she was drowning, she was out of that pool before anyone even noticed?

and besides she was lucky it was only water and not a child's pram!
....who would be getting sued then?

That's not a pool, it's a fountain with an almost 2 foot rise/barrier wall off the ground.

A very visible change in the height of the floor so the mall shouldn't have to waste any money having a guard posted on a clearly marked landmark inside the mall.

The only way a child or an elderly person could have walked into the fountain is if they're blind or walking backwards.

LOL!

Can she sue me? I laughed too.

...or talking on a cell phone.

I was wondering about that - she shouldn't get money for being stupid, but I could understand the issue about posting the video on U-tube. However, people in the mall should understand that videos are used for security purposes. The lawsuit seems unreasonable for that reason - it isn't really an invasion of privacy. Although the mall should fire the security individuals that posted it.

It is the new world - where no one takes responsibility for their own actions - always some one else's fault.

Who knows who published it? It's obvious that the video was rerecorded on a cell phone.
Her complaint is that no one came to her aid, chances are, no one actually saw it live. It's on a tape and when she called to tell them what had happened, they probably rewound the tape, watched it and laughed their asses off.
Again, if she hadn't said anything, nothing would have happened.

I think what happened, if I remember correctly, is it was sent to someone's cell phone from the security camera (office). You are right about that - none of us would have known about it had she not brought it to everyone's attention.

Yeah, but exactly what AID did she need?

She fell like a fool, got up, and walked away.

Cycloptichorn

She got her feelings hurt because she said no one offered to help her, which doesn't appear to be true if you listen to the audio on the video. She was asked if she was all right by a worker in one of the stores.

It's another, IMO, of oh poor me, I got offended so I'm going to strike back.

She was in a place open to the public therefore she have zero expectation of privacy so in a legal sense good luck to her and her lawyer.

People never notice anything.
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