Joe Jones
Daily Stormer
May 23, 2018
One minute you’re trying to help underprivileged yoofs, next those same yoofs are dropping carts on you.
C’est la vie.
A Barnard-educated Upper West Side philanthropist is now an incontinent “shadow of her former self” and can no longer make love to her husband after she was hit by a cart hurled 79 feet from a shopping mall overpass, her lawyer said Friday.
“What happened to Marion Hedges was avoidable. It never would have happened had even the most basic security been observed by the owner defendant and by the security defendant in this case,” attorney Thomas Moore said in opening statements in Hedges’ Manhattan Supreme Court negligence trial.
Hedges, 53, leaned on a cane in the courtroom gallery as Moore told the jury about the 2011 tragedy that left her severely brain damaged, with limited vision, incontinence and trouble completing basic tasks.
The teens who tossed the cart over the ledge served time in juvenile facilities, but Hedges is suing the East River Plaza mall and its security firm for millions in damages. Target, which owned the cart, already settled for an undisclosed sum.