Found a funny story in the LA Times which also was posted at Boing Boing.
A lady is suing the JC Penny department store because she got injuried by a mannequin while a salesperson was removing a shirt from it that the lady wanted to buy. Here’s an exert from the LA Times website:
“There are a slew of lawsuits like this,” said mannequin manufacturer Barry Rosenberg, who joked that stores should run background checks on dummies before letting them mingle with shoppers.
Most of the cases involved mannequins toppling over onto customers, but an Indiana woman claimed she caught herpes from the lips of a CPR training dummy. She dropped her lawsuit against the American Red Cross in 2000 after further tests revealed that she didn’t have the disease, according to news reports.
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