Thursday, January 20, 2011

How Texting and Not Paying Attention Can Make Millions Laugh At You

ABC News ran a story about a YouTube video that went viral [sadly, the link has been removed]: the short but embarrassing scene where a woman in a shopping mall [Cathy Cruz Marrero] falls into a fountain while texting. Not only does she look like a fool, but now she comes across as greedy for filing a $1.5 million lawsuit because the security guards in the immediate area laughed at her instead of offering to help.

The rest of the story: ReadingEagle.com has additional information about Cathy Cruz Marrero, which leads one to wonder whether she staged the accident to get some jackpot justice. Marrero faces charges of theft-by-deception by using a co-worker's credit cards to make over $5,000 in purchases. She may have been embarrassed, but the security guard at the Berkshire Mall (in Wyomissing, near Reading, PA) who leaked the video lost his job.

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