The old adage that truth is stranger than fiction is definitely on display here, with the news that some woman from Mahopac, NY filed a claim against the city because her one year old stepped in dog poop. I am laughing as I type, so we’ll jsut cut and paste the details:
DeBrocky wants 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.
She detailed the incident in her claim.
“After parking, we exited the garage and my 1-year-old son was walking around the structure outside the door of the garage and stepped in a large pile of fecal matter,” DeBrocky wrote. “I quickly picked him up and brought him to the aquarium and did my best to clean him up.”
“After a long car ride, it was not practical for me to immediately turn around and go back home with a small child. We had to pay for admission to the aquarium and my son had no shoes and it made the entire experience awful.”
DeBrocky said she had to buy new shoes for her son, throw away his soiled clothes and cut their trip short.
Who knew that dog poop ruin shoes? And that people outfitted their toddlers in disposable outfits. To go to an aquarium. And how on earth did the poop go from the shoe to the outfit, or did she just dunk the kid into a vat of purel or some other antibacterial toxic cleansing gel, causing some chemical chain reaction?
Then there’s the bit that she let her son did some free range walking around the parking structure. Hello? What about the cars coming in and out of the driveway? And what of the poor dog whose owner let him/her poop in the garage driveway? So many questions.
So let’s sum up here, kid steps in poop, mother doesn’t know how to clean shoes, files claim with city, news hilarity ensues. News 12 has apparently filmed the poop scene.
source: City: Mom’s claim stinks, By Alexandra Fenwick, 05/08/2008
