WOMAN SUES HER 12-YEAR-OLD NEPHEW FOR BREAKING HER WRIST DURING HUG

A New York City woman sued her 12-year-old nephew for six figures over a broken wrist she suffered when he excitedly jumped into her arms to hug her at his 8th birthday party. Her lawsuit claims his “negligent” and “careless” show of affection caused her serious injuries and losses. Jennifer Connell, a 54-year-old human resources manager, described her nephew, Sean Tarala, as very loving and sensitive toward her, but she still felt she had to sue the 12-year-old for $127,000. “All of a sudden he was there in the air, I had to catch him and we tumbled onto the ground,” Connell testified of her encounter with the boy, who weighed 50 pounds when he was eight. “I remember him shouting, ‘Auntie Jen I love you,’ and there he was flying at me. I live in Manhattan in a third-floor walkup so it has been very difficult,” Connell said Friday at Connecticut Superior Court in Bridgeport, Connecticut, “and we all know how crowded it is in Manhattan.” And if walking up stairs with an injured wrist wasn’t difficult enough, the after-effects on Connell’s social life have been disastrous. “I was at a party recently and it was difficult to hold my hors d’oeuvres plate,” she added. Connell’s suit claims that “a reasonable eight-year-old under those circumstances would know or should have known what a forceful greeting such as the one delivered by the defendant to the plaintiff could cause the harms and losses suffered by the plaintiff.”
UPDATE: The woman lost her case. A jury took 25 minutes to decide in favor of the boy.
* She waited four years ’cause she was deciding if it would be worth all the internet bashing she was going to get.
* It’s difficult to hold an hors d’oeuvres plate? I know where you can put it.
* And start taking a calcium supplement, Miss Brittle Bones. You’re pushing 60.
* Okay, how much were you kicking back to the parents off their insurance policy?
* Now the kid is counter-suing for having to pretend to like the aunt in the first place.
* The kid wants the judge to have to kiss her saying, “That should be worth something.”
* Gee, where would a human resources director learn to be such a tight-ass with the rules?
* Is it the wrist she uses to fire people?
* I suppose she’s going to need two good wrists to grab every last cent she can get.
* PHONE TOPIC: A little kid really hurt me.