Pigeon poop plunge wins New Yorker six million dollars

[waichingliu81]

NEW YORK (AFP) - A former New York doorman who slipped on a pile of pigeon droppings on a subway station's stairs has been awarded six million dollars in compensation, according to a report on Monday.

Fifty-six-year-old Shelton Stewart slipped on the station steps in 1998, injuring his neck and back, despite saying he had noticed the pile of excrement on his way to work the same day, the New York Post reported.

A jury awarded Stewart 7.67 million dollars in damages, but New York city's transit authority only has to pay 80 percent of the sum, or 6.13 million, since Stewart was found 20 percent liable for failing to avoid the fecal pile.

Stewart was reportedly planning to use his windfall to buy a house and take his two daughters and grandchild to Disney World in Florida.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/2007122...f62056d_1.html

[junecleaver]

Originally Posted by waichingliu81

NEW YORK (AFP) - A former New York doorman who slipped on a pile of pigeon droppings on a subway station's stairs has been awarded six million dollars in compensation, according to a report on Monday.

Fifty-six-year-old Shelton Stewart slipped on the station steps in 1998, injuring his neck and back, despite saying he had noticed the pile of excrement on his way to work the same day, the New York Post reported.

A jury awarded Stewart 7.67 million dollars in damages, but New York city's transit authority only has to pay 80 percent of the sum, or 6.13 million, since Stewart was found 20 percent liable for failing to avoid the fecal pile.

Stewart was reportedly planning to use his windfall to buy a house and take his two daughters and grandchild to Disney World in Florida.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/2007122...f62056d_1.html

And the courts are dumb enough to award people with this money? That makes the person who is suing look less stupid.