Woman sues zoo over splashing dolphins

[Guchi_Jnr]

Woman sues zoo over splashing dolphins

A woman is suing a zoo after she fell near a dolphin exhibit, accusing staff of encouraging the mammals to splash water and then failing to protect spectators from wet surfaces.

In her lawsuit filed earlier this week, Allecyn Edwards said she was injured while walking near an exhibit at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, where a group of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins were performing.

Officials "recklessly and wilfully trained and encouraged the dolphins to throw water at the spectators in the stands, making the floor wet and slippery", the court documents stated.

They failed, however, to post warning signs or lay down protective mats or strips, it added.

Ms Edwards is demanding more than $US50,000 ($60,000) for lost wages, medical expenses and emotional trauma from the Chicago Zoological Society and the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, which operates the zoo.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/21/2662587.htm

Fuckin' hell!!

Do people really need "warning signs" explaining that dolphins splash water, and hence things (including the ground) get wet..

Common sense anyone??

[Tuffty]

After reading stories like this, I don't think common sense even exists anymore.

[JTRIX]

Are they stupid or what??? People are such a dumbass!!!

[Saikami]

Some people will just do anything for money.

[Kaizer]

Tuffty: Agreed haha.

Saikami: A lot of people do for the most ridiculous things. 

[kuno_thunder]

Maybe it was the dolphins trying to tell the woman to take a bath.