Comments on: “Woman Scared by ‘Dexter’ Ad Sues MTA for Subway Fall”

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:46:54 +0000

@Robert

The picture in the article is misleading. You can only see the complete image from afar. When I was in Vienna last month*, a museum had the same thing (no, not a picture of Dexter, but of one of the exhibits in the museum) on its steps leading up to the entrance. I could see the complete image when I was 50 feet from the steps, but once I got up to the steps you could not see the image at all. All you could see was a set of steps with some coloration. Thus walking up the steps was no different from walking up any other set of steps. In other words, the woman is dissembling.

* Don’t you just love it when people name/place drop.! 🙂

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 05:51:01 +0000

I’m somewhat sympathetic to the claim. Stairs should have high-contrast between the steps and the risers to help people with vision problems. Not having this high contrast, and having a giant face appear unexpectedly could startle someone. I think it may not be a good idea to make stairs appear different from usual.

She did break her ankle.

By: Boblipton

Boblipton — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:27:39 +0000

A year ago I would not have believed any of this, but my ground floor neighbor decorated the front of the building for Halloween — we spent four hours handing out stuff to seemingly every kid in the Tristate area — and the next day I got a phone call from my cleaning lady from in front of the building, mildly hysterical because my house was haunted.

I think the suit ridiculous, but not that it’s necessarily a scam.

Bob