Woman breaks nose on Apple store, sues for $1M

[The Northerner]

Is Apple's sense of sleek, discreet design a danger to the elderly?

It seems 83-year-old Evelyn Paswall believes it is. For she is suing Apple for $1 million after passing into the wall of glass that is an Apple store door.

I am grateful to CBS New York for bringing forth this difficult news of such a grim spectacle. For it seems Passwall simply didn't see the glass doors at the Apple store in Manhasset, Long Island, and ended up breaking her nose after the impact.

One surely doesn't have to be 83 years old in order to walk into glass. It has happened to me, as surely as it must have happened to you. Sometimes, one loses concentration and, before one realizes it, a bump on one's forehead (or worse) ensues.

However, Paswall's attorney claims that it's simply far too hard to see Apple's sleekness. Derek T. Smith was quoted by CBS News York as saying: "Apple wants to be cool and modern and have the type of architecture that would appeal to the tech crowd, but on the other hand, they have to appreciate the danger that this high-tech modern architecture poses to some people."

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57404273-71/woman-breaks-nose-on-apple-store-sues-for-$1m/

[uponit7771]

1. I wonder if this is a complete distrortion of the facts like the coffee lady

...story that the media twisted for the GOP.

The coffee lady wasn't even driving!!!

[aptal]

2. Seriously?

I assume they are speaking of the Glass Cube. It can be seen from 100's of yards away, has little round barriers around it, and is not like super transparent. What I mean by that is that you can notice it very easily especially up close.

[richmwill]

3. I fail to see...

...where the medical cost to repair a broken nose can even come close to a million dollars. The old lady gloats in the article that she has great eyesight and can still drive. So she obviously saw it. Unless she wasn't paying attention, which is her fault and not Apple's. Dismissed, next.

[slackmaster]

6. She's a famous nose model

Or something like that.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. Now she can be a famous "New Jersey" nose model

... not to cast asparagus on the Garden State, of course.

:justkidding:

[Evasporque]

4. she was drinking really hot coffee from MCDonald's.....nt

[slackmaster]

5. My grandmother used to put little decorative fake stained-glass flowers and birds on her glass doors

To prevent absent-minded Grandpa from running into them.

[CanonRay]

7. You can't fix stupid, but maybe you can get paid for it.

See Gingrich, Newt or Santorum, Rick

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. I've seen glass doors with stickers on them. Otherwise, no one can see them.

[Gold Metal Flake]

9. I was once attacked and savagely beaten by a Harry Bertoia Bird Chair.

And another time a Nelson bench once borrowed five bucks from me and never paid it back.

Modernism will fuck your shit up.

[mikeytherat]

11. A Ghyczy garden egg chair tried to jump me, but fortunately I saw it coming.

And if it's got lots of glass and/or bent plywood, I always keep an eye on it.

mikey_the_rat