Mannequins Run Amok
From the Los Angeles Times:
“Diana Newton, 51, of Westminster [Calif.] sued the J.C. Penney Co. last month after she was allegedly thwacked on the head by a department store dummy,” the Los Angeles Times reports:
Newton said she was ambushed by a legless female mannequin at the company’s Westminster Mall store, a skirmish that left her with a bloodied scalp, a cracked tooth, recurring shoulder pain and numbness in her fingers.
The alleged attack was the latest in a string of mannequin mayhem incidents nationwide.
“There are a slew of lawsuits like this,” said mannequin manufacturer Barry Rosenberg, who joked that stores should run background checks on dummies before letting them mingle with shoppers.
It is disgraceful that any retail or other establishment should employ such mannequins. I blame the schools.