"the family will be suing"
What's wrong with this society? Doing something stupid -whe all have- is one thing. Than trying to make a buck off of it... shame on you :-(

You didn't get hurt; be happy!

Peter

The girl should be sued.. The "American Way of Life" is 'sue everybody for anything'. She was the hazardous part of the equation. Once she isn't paying attention she is the one likely to cause an accident.

"We're gona sue even though it was her fault!"

You have got to love the stupidity. Every case like this should come with the prerequisite for the plaintiff to have to get their tubes tied before the judge can hear the case. That would take the idiots out of the gene pool and keep intelligent people from filing frivolous lawsuits.

Lmao figures the parents would try and sue. They need to have some sence knocked into them.. This situation could be much worse, as she could've walked in front of a car and been killed. And it'll be the city they sue, which I hope they counter sue for littering. *She lost her shoe*.

I agree the girl was pretty stupid and is lucky she didn't break a bone. However, who uncovers a manhole BEFORE putting up cones and warning signs?

Shouldn't the manhole have been surrounded by one of those cages? Still, no-harm no-foul in my opinion, and I don't even understand what there is to sue over. I hope this doesn't cost the city too much money.

Suing?? That is ridiculous...what do her parents seriously think they have a case for...maybe they should sue themselves for not raising their daughter to not be an idiot

F*ck in america you can sue for anything its ridiculous

aaa gotta love the american people, even when its clearly they stupidity, they will go for suing for some weird reasons..

Way to look out for your kid there, mom. Don't call her a damn idiot for not only walking on a road without looking, but falling down a hole too. Don't teach her to watch her surroundings. No, sue someone. It's obvious that manholes should never be open, nor should any danger exist on the road. It's someone else's fault that she's an idiot and was probably raised by idiots.

but if they had placed the cones on the ground, she would have tripped and fallen on the pavement, resulting in another lawsuit. Stupidity rules the world.

Maybe she's going to sue the mobile phone company. They should have a system in place to warn people when they are about to put themselves in danger. Or just add a simple if you are walking while texting, you are in big danger and can't sue anyone clause in it.

I think this line proofs that she shouldnt even be aloud to sue:"although we’re not sure who and for what"...But come on, the best the lawyer could say is that there should have been one of the workers by the manhole...ok fine, but what is the family really gonna get from a suit? No one was hurt so they really wont get much if anything. Plus they could get an honest worker fired....not worth it to anyone.

Sorry, but the mother is just another one of those idiots that just likes to sue every chance they get. Hope they lose and they have to pay. The workers probably turned to grab the cones to start placing them and dumb 15 year old (is there any other kind. I know I was one), fell in. Since she was too busy texting instead of watching where she was going she and her mother should be grateful that was all that happened. She could have walked out in front of a car or truck and gotten killed. Then what? Sue the driver or the city for not having railings up to keep people from walking into the road of traffic. What is up with these people that seem to have the attitude of its everyone else's fault but mine. Just what ever happened to personal responsability? When does that come into play?

The world is truly starting to get sad. To me the movie Idiocracy is slowly becoming even more like reality and that plain and simply scares the heck out of me.

also sue the turtles for not being there on time to rescue her

"Longueria’s mother it doesn’t matter that Alexa was texting and says the family will be suing (although we’re not sure who and for what)." -TH

What?

I would love to see this in court - the defense attorney simply getting up and stating "as the court can plainly see from this reenactment, the plaintiff is clearly an idiot."

The workers should countersue her. "I had to pull her out of the manhole and it was all gross and putrid and icky. Eww!"

If I was the judge I think I would have a hard time keeping a straight face for that case.

If she didn't see the hole, she probably would not have seen any cones.

Darwin in the modern age.

Should have used a GPS app and she would have known the manhole was coming up.

oh man i wish this was recorded it would be the #1 viral video clip on you tube.

mind you it is the town that is responsible for manhole covers but if this happened to me i wouldn't sue to spare myself the embarrassment. i would love to be at this trial though to see what the judge says.

Maybe her parents should think twice before they let her drive......

umm lest see here Girl is texting in NYC i thought it was illeagle to use ur phone on nyc streets. i know its a ticketable offence for using ipods while walking in nyc so she should get 3 tickets 1 Usingphone while walking, 2 wreckless endangerment wha if the guy was in the manhole he could have been injured, and 3 littering she losyt her shoe. thats 3 strikes so she would need to spend some time in Juve as well. Dumb people.

Alexa's mother should sue her daughter's brain for being so stupid!!!

Ah, if she'd only been chewing gum, she would not have fallen into the manhole. (Can't walk & chew gum at the same time....)

In the grocery store, a customer drops a grape on the ground. An old man trying to pick out oranges slips on it, and breaks his hip. Should that person have a right to sue the store? Or, say, in the same store a worker is clearly mopping, but forgot to setup cones... any idiot could have seen that the worker was mopping, but a customer fell, and sued.

Its a matter of trying to draw a line on where liability starts... and its sticky business. Like, going to the GYM today, say the equipment randomly breaks, and I get hurt? Do I have a right to sue the GYM (it was entirely NOT their fault, since the equipment was in good shape), or just the manufacturer of said faulty equipment? Its my reasonable assessment, that I shouldn't have a right to sue the GYM unless they were negligent, but in our system you could sue them anyway if no releases were signed stating otherwise (and often you sue them anyway).

In this case its pretty irresponsible to leave an open man hole unattended around the idiot general public, even for a moment... and, I even feel a little bad for the girl. The whole situation had to have been painful, dirty, and embarrassing... Especially while on the phone, I can see how someone could neglect to check for holes in the ground where they shouldn't be, and simply glance ahead to make sure he/she wasn't going to walk into something. Not understanding who to sue, is understandable (who was responsible for the workers?), and the for what? Well, what's this sort of neglegence called?

Meh. If it was my teenager I would let it go. Not because there isn't a legit case to sue, but mainly because that since she didn't get hurt (more than some scrapes and bruises perhaps), that there wouldn't be much to sue for, and the resulting court case would totally humiliate my daughter. The girl just made an innocent mistake, its her parents who are the fucking idiots.

What's the price on total nationwide humiliation these days?

this is hilarious, she fallls into a manhole while texting and her mom is suing. They probably don't have jobs and this is there only source of income

Oh my god...she escaped without serious injuries and yet her mother is talking she got injuries on her pride..
bullshit

WHY IS THIS EVEN NEWS? I mean, teenagers and others DIE in car accidents all the time due to texting while driving.

rofl.

wow, it is fuxking assholes(and their families) like that costing us honest & responsible tax payers millions of dollars on just LEGAL fees.

I think I will start blogging about how often the word "sue" in a news story is a cue for word vomit about how "suing is the new American way". You guys have clearly never been on either side of a real litigation, you have simply been spoon fed nonsense statistics like "this one time this guy tripped on the sidewalk and sued for 10 million dollars!!!". If you are so unhappy with the "new American way" then start voting! The lawmakers govern pretty much everything related to the Legal system (not to mention the laws themselves and civil laws like Tort).

Don't bother giving me crap about how "oh in country X we have it so much better" because to date there is no perfect system that balances personal rights with legal liability, and it just so happens that the US system loves to side with the little guy (thanks, mainstream media.)

In general I’m against suing for almost everything. In this case I think it is grose negligence to leave a manhole cover off. This person could have been killed. Who cares if she was TXTing… What if she was walking and looked up @ a plane? Or saw a lambo and starred for a second? Or saw a cute guy and turned her head? Her actions don’t change the fact that there is no way a man hole cover should EVER be off and unattended, It’s just dangerous.