Model, 2, Seeks Lost Wages in Mishap STAMFORD, Conn. - A 2-year-old model and actor who cut his head at a playground is seeking unspecified lost wages and other compensation from the city. Konrad Mader of Greenwich was running toward a treehouse at a playground Nov. 4 when he crashed into a railing, according to a claim filed last week by his mother and reported Friday by The Advocate of Stamford. The blond toddler received several stitches. Deena Mader, the boy's mother, did not specify how much she is seeking on behalf of her son. In a letter to officials, she demanded compensation for medical bills, pain and suffering and a "lost wage amount due to his inability to audition or take modeling or commercial jobs while his head heals." Mader blamed the boy's injury on a green railing, which she said blends in with the landscaping. Mader said the railing should be painted a brighter color. "This accident was preventable had the railings and safety measures been correct at this park, " Mader wrote in her claim. Tom Cassone, the city's director of legal affairs, said his office is investigating the claim. Joe Falzone, a facilities manager in charge of maintaining city parks, said he is not aware of defects in the playground and there are no plans to make changes. I guess kids arnt aloud to be kids anymore
Wait, so the 2-year old is suing or his mother who is using her child for financial gains by making him model completely violating child labor laws is suing? I'm sorry, but a 2-year old child doesn't know if he/she wants to model, their parents are the ones pushing them into it.
That's just wrong - her dumbass of a kid runs into a railing and it's someone elses fault because there's a chance she might lose a bit of money form a 2-y.o. acting career. I hope the city counter-sue her for stupidity!
I cant believe the world has come to this. We are paying money to people for being retarded. Not in the "benefits" sense, but the "huge cash payouts" sense.
everyone read this article i thought that article was more suited for a thread about greed... Politicians voting against laws designed to protect the american people because it isn't in their campaign contributor's interest... *And i agree she should be flogged.
Whoa there young bucky... Let me get this straight... By NOT slaughtering 130,000 cattle, by NOT wasting manpower in moving, killing, and packaging 130,000 cattle, it costs $373 BILLION? That's $2,869,230 per cow... to do nothing to them! Hell, that makes a sick cow more profitable than a healthy one! Of course we all know that's not the reality. The reality is that the house committees added this and that to the bill, so that instead of looking after the health of the nation, they're refocusing the bill on everything from hospitals to daycares to feeding murderers. And that's what's wrong with our legislative process. It's underhanded, greedy, selfish crap and I'm tired of my senator/representative trying to pull it. As for the child. Someday, just you wait, I'm going to get a common sense law passed. Just think, if we had it now the city justice could walk up to that woman and say "Congratulations, you're a selfish idiot, case dismissed, have a nice day."
On djgizmo's point, remember when the news about the mad-cow case in the us first came into light, what every newspaper read as it's head line? Wasn't it south park that said it best "Blame Canada...." And yes, common sense laws really should be put into place. How could you actualy force a 2 year old child to do something he/she can not understand even in the least? And then have the gawl to not only (I'm guessing here) live off the child's carrer, but sue the city if that child injures him/her self accidently? I can remember being a youth and scraping my knee down to the bone due to poorly maintained roads, and my mother saying to me "suck it up, it'll only bleed for a day or two". But hey, if she can do that, then I guess next time I walk into a wall and bruse myself I'll sue the person who made my house! Makes sense!
Common sense to you might not be common sense to me, and vice versa. It's hard to describe common sense.
