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City to skeeved mom: Poop happens

If you thought the guy suing the family of the dog he killed with his car was mind-boggling, check out this one: A New York woman who took her family to visit the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, Conn., has filed a $100 claim against the city because her 1-year old son stepped in dog feces outside the Maritime Garage.

The incident, says mom, ruined her child’s shoes and the entire outing.

The city's official response: “Poop happens.”

If anybody should be able to understand that, you'd think it would be the mother of a 1-year-old.

Norwalk officials will deny the claim, city attorney M. Jeffry Spahr said.

Mahopac, N.Y., resident, Kelly DeBrocky filed the claim with the city clerk on April 7. It came across Spahr's desk this week, according to this scoop in the Stamford Advocate.

"I was just really skeeved, I thought the whole thing was disgusting," DeBrocky told the newspaper. DeBrocky wanted the city to reimburse her for $54 she spent at Stride Rite replacing her toddler's ruined shoes, and the wasted $50-plus in expenses she spent for parking and aquarium admission on April 5.

Spahr said the city doesn't dispute that the incident took place -- that said 1-year-old's foot did land in said pile of poop -- but he doesn't see why it had to ruin said shoes or said day.

“I don't know why the shoes are ruined. I've mowed the lawn a lot of times, we have a dog, and the same things happens to me, I just squirt them off. I don't understand why she couldn't run the shoes under water."

Comments

America is suit-crazy. You can sue for anything these days. Years ago I thought the McDonald's "hot coffee" case was absurd. Um, it's coffee...if it wasn't served hot, you'd be complaining. Now we've got "lost pants" suits and now "my kid stepped where they shouldn't have" suits.

Perhaps you should have been keeping a better eye on your child when walking on a street. Do you really let a one year-old walk by themselves? Or far enough away that they end up stepping in something they shouldn't?

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John Woestendiek has been a features reporter at The Sun for six years. Previously he worked as a reporter, columnist, national correspondent and editor at four other newspapers, and received a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1987 for his reporting on prisons and mental institutions for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Woestendiek lives in South Baltimore with his dog, Ace.
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