{"id":17032,"date":"2010-07-26T04:01:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T11:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17032"},"modified":"2010-07-24T09:21:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T16:21:06","slug":"woman-sues-airline-for-skateboard-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17032","title":{"rendered":"Woman Sues Airline For Skateboard Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who claims she was injured when a skateboard fell on her from an overhead compartment is suing <strong>US Airways<\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/2528368,passenger-sues-skateboard-overhead-072310.article\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\">The lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court doesn\u2019t spell out how <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><strong>Diana Burgess<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"> was injured on the August 2008 flight. . . It only states she \u201csuffered physical and emotional trauma\u201d after the airline \u201cpermitted a passenger to board and place a dangerous instrumentality in the form of a large, heavy skateboard with appurtenances in the form of attached, heavy sharp metal wheels in a position of danger to fellow passengers, without security in such a manner,\u201d the suit states.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heavy, sharp, medal wheels? Sounds more like a prop from Rollerball.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/2528368,passenger-sues-skateboard-overhead-072310.article\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who claims she was injured when a skateboard fell on her from an overhead compartment is suing US Airways, according to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times. The lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court doesn\u2019t spell out how Diana Burgess was injured on the August 2008 flight. . . It only states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17033,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032\/revisions\/17033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}