Woman Who Texted Her Way Into A Fountain Appears On GMA To Discuss Legal Steps

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by Matt Schneider | 1:04 pm, January 20th, 2011

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This week’s viral video celebrity, Cathy Cruz Marrero, is quickly achieving worldwide fame as the “fountain lady” who unfortunately took a tumble into a mall fountain when she was more focused on texting than walking. She appeared on Good Morning America and told George Stephanopoulos about the embarrassing incident and her next legal steps.

Marrero seemed equally mad about the fact that no one in the mall helped her after she fell and that the video has now become a YouTube sensation, saying “I admit it was funny, but nobody took my feelings into consideration.” Her lawyer was unintentionally funny too, commenting that they are “at the early stages of our investigation” and planned on, at the very least, “requesting or demanding an apology.” Hopefully any legal action does not have a chilling effect on people posting embarrassing videos on YouTube, otherwise what would we do on slow news days?

The interview ended with a chilling and tearful warning from Marrero: “do not text and walk.” Stephanopoulos said “thank you for being such a good sport,” apparently not realizing that “good sports” usually don’t resort to lawyering up and have reactions more similar to Steve Carrell’s character in The Office after he famously fell in a koi pond.

Watch the video from ABC below:

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paulmdoro

Doing her part to add to the list of infamous frivolous lawsuits in America. Way to grab those 15 minutes. If this moves forward she better be admonished by the judge and forced to pay court costs.
espo222

Wow, this woman is an idiot and the lawyer should be dis-barred along with Gloria Alred.
redleaf

I want to find one person in America who is even remotely sympathetic to this idiot.
Then we can tell them both to screw off.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Doug-Mataconis/676087616 Doug Mataconis

Okay, let’s think about this for a second.

But for the fact that she appeared on Good Morning America would anyone know who the hell she is?

Obviously not

I smell a rat
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Are you kidding me! Yet another person looking to make a quick buck.
Pablo

Doug Mataconis said:
But for the fact that she appeared on Good Morning America would anyone know who the hell she is?

There goes any claim she might have had for damages.
notsofast

Marrero seemed equally mad about the fact that no one in the mall helped her after she fell ”

She was in and out in a mater of seconds. What could anyone have done?
jo hoochie

The lawyer will bring home more money than her if it even gets to court. She just made a fool out of herself by being on TV! She should have put it on Funniest home video’s and then she might have won the 100k at the end of the show.
paulmdoro

Maybe she did it on purpose.
Z_man723

another worthless lawsuit in America
OxyCon

If I was a writer for SNL, I think I’d be working on a Fred Armisen bit right now.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

The sad thing is my 12 years old gets it. When I took him to McDonalds to get hot cocoa, he asked me why it says on the cup that it’s hot. He doesn’t understand how anyone wouldn’t just know that and I had to explain the million dollar lawsuits to him. Lack of personal responsibility is a HUGE factor in the problems we have in this country IMO.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

notsofast says:
Marrero seemed equally mad about the fact that no one in the mall helped her after she fell ”

This is one thing I can understand. I was in a sporting goods store trying on roller blades and I fell and broke both my wrists. There were 2 employees standing right there and neither one offered to help or even asked if I was ok. I couldn’t believe it!! Of course, I didn’t sue because it’s just not in my nature.
notsofast

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Of course, I didn’t sue because it’s just not in my nature.

Sue for what?

Their behavior sounds repugnant, but where was the negligence?
Color Me Badd

No one ever would have known it was her, now everyone does. Makes sense this idiot walked into a fountain though.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Well, notsofast, I’m sure alot of people would sue just because they got hurt in the store. I mean I heard a story once of someone who broke into someones house, got hurt and then sued the home owner!! It seems you can sue for anything.
Color Me Badd

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
notsofast says:
Marrero seemed equally mad about the fact that no one in the mall helped her after she fell ”

This is one thing I can understand. I was in a sporting goods store trying on roller blades and I fell and broke both my wrists. There were 2 employees standing right there and neither one offered to help or even asked if I was ok. I couldn’t believe it!! Of course, I didn’t sue because it’s just not in my nature.

You couldn’t sue for shit. That’s why you didnt sue. You are a typical teabagger calling for tort reform all over the damn place until somethings happens to you and then you start thinking lawsuit.

Hypocrite Hippecrit
notsofast

Color Me Badd said:
Color Me Badd says:
January 20, 2011 at 1:48 pm Color Me Badd(Quote)

Hey, please go back to your sewer, clown.
The Real Royal King

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Are you kidding me! Yet another person looking to make a quick buck.

Sure, but if this had happened to Sarah Palin or Gle(n)n Beckerhead you’d be sobbing like the Weeper of the House.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

I think he was evicted from the sewer, notsofast. Something about the smell.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

King, you manage to bring Palin into absolutely EVERY thread. Give it a rest, psycho!!
The Real Royal King

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
The sad thing is my 12 years old gets it. When I took him to McDonalds to get hot cocoa, he asked me why it says on the cup that it’s hot. He doesn’t understand how anyone wouldn’t just know that and I had to explain the million dollar lawsuits to him. Lack of personal responsibility is a HUGE factor in the problems we have in this country IMO.

Poor kid. McDonald’s cocoa stinks. Too bad his mother didn’t make him some.
notsofast

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
It seems you can sue for anything.

Well, these people need to watch the Peoples Court. LOL

She disabuses people of that notion all the time.

She had a person whose brakes went out and she crashed into the car in front of her. She was sued for the repairs for the damages, but she won because their was no evidence that she had a problem with her brakes before the accident or that she knew she had a problem with her brakes.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

I do actually, but it’s a treat for him to go out for it, so I indulge him.
notsofast

The Real Royal King said:
Sure, but if this had happened to Sarah Palin or Gle(n)n Beckerhead you’d be sobbing like the Weeper of the House.

Nice lie.

How many is that today, son?
gjp

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
The sad thing is my 12 years old gets it. When I took him to McDonalds to get hot cocoa, he asked me why it says on the cup that it’s hot. He doesn’t understand how anyone wouldn’t just know that and I had to explain the million dollar lawsuits to him. Lack of personal responsibility is a HUGE factor in the problems we have in this country IMO.

I will point out that the coffee at Micky Ds used to be unbelievably hot. And no I never spilled it on myself, but you have to wait to let it cool.
Also, any doubt she is an Obama voter?
Probably NOT wrong

It was George W Bush’s fault!
Why sue the mall????
Color Me Badd

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
I think he was evicted from the sewer, notsofast. Something about the smell.

I am a lady, hun and don’t you have to go to the mall and try on roller skates you dont know how to use and fall on your ass then sue. Typical libs want something for nothing heh.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

She had a person whose brakes went out and she crashed into the car in front of her. She was sued for the repairs for the damages, but she won because their was no evidence that she had a problem with her brakes before the accident or that she knew she had a problem with her brakes.

Was it Mrs. King, notsofast?
Nacho

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
notsofast says:
Marrero seemed equally mad about the fact that no one in the mall helped her after she fell ”

This is one thing I can understand. I was in a sporting goods store trying on roller blades and I fell and broke both my wrists. There were 2 employees standing right there and neither one offered to help or even asked if I was ok. I couldn’t believe it!! Of course, I didn’t sue because it’s just not in my nature.

lol, sorry but LOL!

I really do feel bad about laughing about it, but it does sucks to be you.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Color me Badd says:

I am a lady, hun

It seems you are using the term lady VERY loosely.
Color Me Badd

notsofast said:
Well, these people need to watch the Peoples Court. LOL

She disabuses people of that notion all the time.

She had a person whose brakes went out and she crashed into the car in front of her. She was sued for the repairs for the damages, but she won because their was no evidence that she had a problem with her brakes before the accident or that she knew she had a problem with her brakes.

At least you admit you watch anti-intellectual trash like the People’s Court I bet you are really into Nancy Grace too.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

It did suck Nacho, especially since my son was a baby at the time. An absolute nightmare!
Nacho

When ever a forced 30 second commercial precedes the clip, I always turn it off and don’t watch it. This time I didn’t and it was worth it.
Color Me Badd

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Color me Badd says:

I am a lady, hun

It seems you are using the term lady VERY loosely.

It seems like you use the term Republican very loosely, sound like a suing nanny state lib to me.
notsofast

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
I do actually, but it’s a treat for him to go out for it, so I indulge him.

I love how the lib hate has increased since 11/02/2010.

I like watching the meltdown of libs.

BTW, did you see the 2-fer in lib hatred yesterday?

Cohen does he thing in the House calling Repubs Nazis, and not to be outdone, the lib hater, Joy Behar, has Joan Rivers on who proceeds to call SP a Nazi.

Hey libs, you are making the word “Nazi” not sound so bad anyone, just like ya did with the word “racist.”
The Real Royal King

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
King, you manage to bring Palin into absolutely EVERY thread. Give it a rest, psycho!!

I had to meet a repair person at home earlier, and I had on cable “news”. There was Mark Kelly talking about his wife, and I thought to myself: “This man just doesn’t get it. His wife is not a victim. Sarah Palin is the victim of Tucson”.

Then I saw the story about the Florida police officers shot today, two of whom were killed, and after I reminded myself that guns don’t kill people, I said to myself: “Palin is the victim again. These officers are taking up television time that Sarah Palin might have used.”

Since Sarah won’t say it, however: to the survivor, my prayers for your speedy recovery. To the families of the slain officers, my prayers that your loved ones find the peace and joy awaiting them in our Lord’s Nearer Presence and my prayers for you that find consolation in your faith and in your continued love for those who you have lost.
notsofast

Color Me Badd said:
Color Me Badd says:
January 20, 2011 at 1:58 pm Color Me Badd(Quote)

Clown, your sewer is calling! Go home!
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Color Me Badd says:

It seems like you use the term Republican very loosely

I consider myself a Conservative actually. And there is NOTHING liberal about me.
Nacho

notsofast said:
I love how the lib hate has increased since 11/02/2010.

I like watching the meltdown of libs.

BTW, did you see the 2-fer in lib hatred yesterday?

Cohen does he thing in the House calling Repubs Nazis, and not to be outdone, the lib hater, Joy Behar, has Joan Rivers on who proceeds to call SP a Nazi.

Hey libs, you are making the word “Nazi” not sound so bad anyone, just like ya did with the word “racist.”

11/4/2008
notsofast

Nacho said:
11/4/2008

Actually, lib hate goes back to the founding of America, son

Try again!
The Real Royal King

notsofast said:
Actually, lib hate goes back to the founding of America, son

Try again!

So, Thomas Jefferson was a big hater?
Nacho

This lady is just following the Victim example that Sarah Palin has infected our culture with.
The Real Royal King

Nacho said:
This lady is just following the Victim example that Sarah Palin has infected our culture with.

Hear! Hear!
Dem4Ever

“NAZIS”…just kinda roles off the tongue. All together now…Nazis, Nazis, Nazis, Nazis. Now that everybody has got that out of their system let’s turn our attention to…Racist. A one and a two and a…
Penguin60

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7oW-fMvrL8&feature=related

Woody should have sued Tiger and everybody else that laughed, including me.
Color Me Badd

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Color Me Badd says:

It seems like you use the term Republican very loosely

I consider myself a Conservative actually. And there is NOTHING liberal about me.

Well it looks like this fountain lady is a republican after all, she loves sarah Palin according to her facebook look
http://www.themiddlefinger.com/bush/
perceptorii

Nacho said:
This lady is just following the Victim example that Sarah Palin has infected our culture with.

I was wondering when Palin would be blamed for this.
Seeing 2012 From My Window

Hey, there are dumb conservatives too, just not as many as there are dumb liberals.
JustWondering

You Americans crack me up. You are always so lawsuit happy. Most Western-democratic countries do not have this reflex of suing like you do. Citizens in these countries (I live “socialistic” Canada) assume responsibility for their actions. Or they would be ridiculed if they even thought of suing.

I guess lawsuits are part of the great “capitalist” system that you hold in such esteem. The great and greedy system that almost brought down the world’s other economies.

I wanted ask that you not make this a liberal/left vs. conservative/right issue but having read the other posts I see it’s too late for that.

Grow up people!
jo hoochie

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Hey, there are dumb conservatives too, just not as many as there are dumb liberals.

Color me badd sounds like SarahP.(Pumpkin) who is on here all the time. Must be a daughter of his! If Not Him, just changed his name.
The Tea Weasel

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
Hey, there are dumb conservatives too, just not as many as there are dumb liberals.

Then there are those people who make blanket condemnations of others to make themselves feel better about the herd they follow…..
Partytime

Idiots both. Someone get that dunce a rubber outfit.
BlackWidow

The Tea Weasel said:
Then there are those people who make blanket condemnations of others to make themselves feel better about the herd they follow…..

That is what Michele does all the time. Sge acrually necer posr anything on yopic just runs her mouth and bakes nasty remarks abour others.
BlackWidow

Oh my I am the typo queen tonight.
scootrbum

Waaaa, waaaaa, waaaa, what a waste of space. If she got her head out of her as…phone, she wouldn’t have fallen and been made a spectacle. That’s human nature point out the wrong way to act so you don’t make the same stupid mistake.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Anderson/100000301464587 Robert Anderson

Just another sleazy grab for money, and this one is especially disgusting
since this woman was completely at fault. She’s an airhead.
gargoyle

Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
I heard a story once of someone who broke into someones house, got hurt and then sued the home owner!! It seems you can sue for anything.

Of course you can sue anyone at any time for anything. That doesn’t mean that the lawsuit is not frivolous or not a waste of the court’s time. They need to introduce a fine for filing such obviously frivolous lawsuits, and slap them with it if the judge rules it as such. The current clog of courtcases would be reduced significantly, and people might begin to see “justice” in a timely fashion again.

At least in the UK, the loser of a lawsuit must pay for BOTH lawyers. A lot less incentive to file unless you’re absolutely sure you’ll win.
am_underground

It’s a damn shame that not all of the douchnozzels who are constantly text, no matter where they’re at, don’t fall into to holes or fountains. I watched two nerds yesterday at lunch and one never ever put his phone down or even looked at his lunch guest and the only time he stopped was to put a fork in his mouth. Got what have we become when in a live social environment, you have to be on a phone.