Here's a good one that happened the other day.
Cathy Cruz Marrero was walking along and texting when she didn't realize that there was a fountain right in front of her so naturally, she fell in.
This was captured on a security video, which was most likely uploaded to a phone camera and then onto the web, where it went viral with over 1 million hits before the first day of release was over.
No-one could see her face, and even though it was funny to many people, the woman stepped forward, identified herself and then proceeded to seek legal redress for something that was her fault.
Had she not gone public with her identity, this story would have lasted around a day or two, then vanished. But no, she had to make more of a fool of herself and seek a legal remedy to what should have been better left alone. Now the world knows how idiotic she was and how the legal system can reward stupidity with what may amount to a monetary settlement, if it ever gets to court.
I hope that it never does and that she and her lawyer are charged with wasting the court's time on a very trivial matter. But that may not likely happen, since there are two things in her favour.
One: the US justice system rewards greed and stupidity in force, not because these things should be rewarded, but because corporations like those that run the mall where she fell have better things to do with their time and money than fight a frivolous lawsuit. So they often will settle out of court.
Two: because she is of that generation of twenty-somethings who thinks nothing of trying to get money for nothing so that she can live on easy street. At least until the money runs out, and nine times out of ten, most people who get large sums of cash usually go bankrupt during the first five years after receiving it. At least that is what happens to most lottery winners who go from rags to riches and never learned how to save.
Because she is of that generation, she also has the backing of her parent(s) who will make it their business to see to it that she cashes in on what should never have been an issue in the first place. The fact is that even as a toddler, you are taught that you have to watch where you are going, otherwise you may trip and fall or run into things.
Its elementary knowledge that we have eyes in front of our heads for a good reason, and that reason is not so that you can text away your life on trivial matters.
I'm glad that two things that have come from this incident.
One: that she wasn't driving and hit some pedestrian. Or that she didn't get hit by a car (though that may be debatable in light of her lawsuit).
Two: "Marrero says she'll never walk and text again."
Should she get anything from the courts, it should ideally be a reprimand and a warning that the courts are not there to teach common sense.
As such, I think that she is the poster girl of all that is truly wrong with her generation.
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