Rusty she is suing Google not the driver. Google has the money. Oops sorry my mistake, it also does have the driver on the lawsuit. Yeah you are right the driver should sue her too, if he does I hope he wins.

According to the article, she's suing both Google and the driver:

...filed a lawsuit seeking more than $100,000 on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Utah. It also names a motorist she says hit her.

This is why common sense laws need to be enacted. She clearly had other options than walking on a highway.

This is utterly unacceptable.

That's not too bad. I Googled "Flying Saucers" and what I read there frightened me so much I put Crazy Glue in between my butt cheeks every night so the aliens can't give me an anal probe.

So when this woman saw she was walking on a busy road with no sidewalks why didn't she turn around?

$$$$$$$

Unfortunately, some shyster, instead of telling her she is an idiot, took her case.

Common sense and personable responsibility have clearly gone away. Just look at what happened with foreclosures. If people actually knew how to budget and be responsible, then the amount of foreclosures would have been drastically lower.

If Google said to jump off a cliff, would you?

This woman is retarded.. no, being retarded isn't a choice.. she is stupid.

May as well file a lawsuit on the phone company, the carrier and also the person who put that damn street there!!

I wonder if her relatives where the ones who got burned with HOT coffee at McDonalds?

You have got to be smarter than the equiptment you are operating...

Patrick, no she must be related to the woman who fell asleep on the plane who is now suing for false imprisonment, among other things!

Clearly Google should give her triple her money back!!! Oh wait, Google is free. So any person that gives this nutcase free advice may be sued if she doesn't like it?!

Ok, nobody talk to this woman ever again!

At least the nutcase that sued McDonalds for not warning her that coffee was actually hot had to 'buy' the coffee first.

Hey, you know I plan on suing Mapquest because I asked for directions over Memorial Day weekend and they gave me a route that was so crowded I was delayed an hour. I mean, is that just not, you know, so, so, well, just so. If I'm inconvenienced, then my lawyer will be suing everyone in eyesight, including himself for being too slow to get me my money. You all owe me!!!

Geez, what a world!

Sue this and that! She needs a life!

Of course she has none, thats why she suing, maybe she should sue her parent for making her STUPID!!

Joker

Just what inference do you draw from a "Jewish name?" You live in your own little narrow-minded, prejudiced world, don't you? You should be ashamed of yourself.

Sounds like she lacks basic common sense. If Google directions told her to walk off a bridge would she do it and then sue them for giving those directions? Where does the human brain come into play here?

I wish I was on this jury. I would find in favor of Google without a second thought. This woman is a money hungy jack ass that deserved to be hit by a car.

I'm hoping she wins. Then I can take and sue garmin because my mapping is wrong. It tells me to take a right turn in certain spots and if I do I will drive into the ocean.

Maybe my wife got them to do some "special" programming for a one-off unit.

Before you give us these stories, give us a little background check on these ambulance chasers!

I've a mind to sue this woman for failing to submit to the process of natural selection by surviving to possibly reproduce and further corrupt the human gene pool.

Common sense and personable responsibility have clearly gone away. Just look at what happened with foreclosures. If people actually knew how to budget and be responsible, then the amount of foreclosures would have been drastically lower.

That statement is neither fair, nor correct. There are plenty of people who DID budget correctly, didn't spend money on luxuries, had a sensible mortgage - and then ended up losing jobs and having to take jobs that didn't cover their bills. In addition, many foreclosures (and bankruptcies) are a result of people having unexpected expenses - usually, medical bills. Yes, there are people who weren't financially responsible, and lived beyond their means - but there are just as many, if not more, who were just dinged by the bad economy, or by situations they couldn't have possible foreseen.

Ahhh yes once again the lawyers come flocking to aid in this womans plight,with thoughts of grandure of lining their own pockets. Next time anyone else wants directions on their phone they will probably have to read through 58 pages of disclaimers and legal rhetoric before getting anywhere near what they are looking for.

I saw a bumper sticker 15yrs ago that said it best.

"STUPID PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BREED"

maybe some of these people should have heeded that warning. As for now they live among us and his is what we are forced to deal with.

A sad statement on the lack of common sense of many of our citizens. Maybe she should sue the schools she attended as well as her parents for failing to teach her the slightest bit of common sense!!

and we wonder why the court system is such a mess....the sue happy people are out and about! Insane...I do believe google and map quest have disclaimer about the directions they give.

I hope this doesn't go the same way that McDonald coffee suit. That was a joke also. If she wins, it just goes to show you how the courts are messed up!

Suprisingly, these low lifes spend all day dreaming up ways to get rich quick.

I went through a rotation on a pediatric floor, and there were poor mothers who tried their best to get government diability for their newborns even though they were fine.

A local news channel in Utah did a follow-up on this story. There was a walking path near the roadway that Miss Ditz walked on. The lawyers refused to make a comment to the media. That sounds like real conviction - a lawyer not wanting to talk?

obviously you all beat me to the common sence part.... what a moron, now she wants $ for being one, like so many others out there.....a joke on 2 legs people...jeeze.

maybe i should sue bing maps, cause it gave the wrong names for streets and so on a few times. Even tho i had "common sence" to know something wasnt right, and stopped to be sure...good thing i did, or i would have ended up in canada or something....lol

And some idiot judge might just grant her the 100k award. The justice system cracks me up sometimes.

I am so tired of reading about these me me me generation idiots who refuse to take any responsibilities for anything. Just shoot 'em.

Patric

Your comment 1.7

Please don't give them any more ideas on who to sue. There are already enough fools who will think suing the phone company and the phone manufacturer are great ideas. They just want to be enough of a nuisance to get an out of court settlement.

You can't fix stupid.....

Perhaps this dumb a$$ should have exercised 'good' judgement...

If memory holds correct, I think that this is the very same lady who sued, McDonalds for spilling hot coffee on her person. Jackie Childs, Esquire is taking on this case for her!

May she win a lifetime supply of free GOOGLE apps!

She should also sue the city for paving the road, if it wasn't there she wouldn't have gotten hit by a car. Why not also sue the manufacturer of the car that hit her? If they hadn't made it in the plant, it wouldn't have hit her...

I'm suing newsvine for exposing me to stupid comments!!!!!

Common sense and personable responsibility have clearly gone away. Just look at what happened with foreclosures. If people actually knew how to budget and be responsible, then the amount of foreclosures would have been drastically lower.

That statement is neither fair, nor correct. There are plenty of people who DID budget correctly, didn't spend money on luxuries, had a sensible mortgage - and then ended up losing jobs and having to take jobs that didn't cover their bills. In addition, many foreclosures (and bankruptcies) are a result of people having unexpected expenses - usually, medical bills. Yes, there are people who weren't financially responsible, and lived beyond their means - but there are just as many, if not more, who were just dinged by the bad economy, or by situations they couldn't have possible foreseen.

just because you can afford all your bills and responsibilities while you are working doesn't mean you are financially responsible. If you aren't putting money away when you are employed because your money goes out as fast as it comes in, then you are overextending yourself.

my wife and i bought a home we could afford (we could've made payments on a more expensive mortgage), and once we paid our bills, we were still able to put money in savings. when i got laid off, we were able to stay afloat primarily with what unemployment brought in. there were times when we had to take money out of our savings....but if we had all our money going out when I was working either with a more expensive mortgage (which would mean higher utility costs associated with a bigger house), or more credit card debt, or two car payments, we could've been really screwed...but we were responsible, paid down a lot of our debt when I was working and still was able to throw money in the bank.

really, if you cannot plan for something unexpected like a job loss, and not make it with unemployment, then as far as I am concerned, you are not responsible with your money.

Gee I guess than we should be able to plan for the wage earner esp if only one to get sick or die or maybe you need to see what a child's illness can do to your extra special savings after the insurance runs out. Bad things happen to good people so get off your high horse before it trips and breaks its neck!

Rusty said if for me.

It is a really good thing that for this lady that being stupid in public is not a crime otherwise it sounds like she would be a career criminal. I can't help but wonder; if google's direction had led her to a very high bridge and told her to jump off, that it was perfectly safe, would she have done so?

I get directions from Google and Mapquest all the time to get from my house to a place I have never been before. Often since I know how to get to the major highway to actually start the trip, I simply ignore the "turn left on your road then right on another city street and then go 10 miles to another city street to get to the major highway I need to start the trip on, especially when I can simply drive 2 miles on the road I live on and be on the major highway I need to be on to actually get the trip started. I wonder just how far this lady walked on this unsafe road with no sidewalks before she began to realize it was not safe. Or, did it not dawn on her until she was hit by a car?

A lot of unanswered questions here, but one thing that is for sure she failed to use common sense in the situation and the fault for that rest squarely on her shoulders not Google's. She is a prime example of what is wrong in American today.....LACK OF COMMON SENSE.....

RealityCheck12 ...... you can join Joker in his narrow-minded, bigoted world. You make yourself look small and foolish with your thoughtless comments.

chill out, its a little funny. im jewish and its funny! its ok to have a sense of humor too.

alexis ..... you do not speak for all Jews

RealityCheck ..... you don't know anything about me. I, on the other hand, know quite a lot about you.

ha ha so if Google Maps said to get from point A to point B, you're required to walk through the middle of a highway road, would you really do it? This is stupid. She just made herself be stupid who'll have no friends, and is keeping humanity from MOVING on! Jeez.

My point is that you do not know what is important to me, but I know that you are a bigot. You are apparently proud of that.

I am neither Jewish nor gay. Struck out! I do believe in equal rights and the some churches work against equal rights.

My problem is with fundamentalists of all religions trying to use the political system to take away the freedom of other Americans and screwing up the education system with their misinformation about science and history. Right wing Christians do serious damage to this country.

I'm back. I find it funny that a simple comment is "derailing" people from LA and Jews. Obviously, Tyler the Moderator isn't from LA and doesn't know the demographic of LA. He probably is too young to have heard the song by "Missing Persons" Walking in LA or hasn't worked for folks from a certain religion that live in Beverly Hills but I have. I call it as I see them and if people play into the stereo type I'm not going to defend them or pretend that its not the norm. I hope this doesn't get me banished from Newsvine

Gee I guess than we should be able to plan for the wage earner esp if only one to get sick or die or maybe you need to see what a child's illness can do to your extra special savings after the insurance runs out. Bad things happen to good people so get off your high horse before it trips and breaks its neck!

sure, bad things happen to good people...however whining and feeling sorry for yourself isn't going to fix things. i don't know why it is so inconceivable for people to plan for the bad times when times are good. once again, it comes down to personal responsiblity.

Well, if Google said that was the shortest route, why not?

Apparently yeah, she would

I'm thinking that should be my new retirement plan; provided it's a fall I can survive.

/sarcasm

I hope her lawyer will follow

GoogleGod will show us the way if you have faith. If your faith falters, you will be k.o.'d by an SUV. The web giveth, and 3G phone service taketh away.

Next time call a cab.

You know, that was my thought too. Why exactly did she feel the need to go walking in an unfamiliar city? (It says she lives in LA County, so she was likely a tourist in SLC.) Why not take a cab to where she was going? And if she wanted to walk for exercise, or to see the sights, why not get some advice from the locals?

How is it she didn't have enough sense to walk in an area to get hit by a car but has enough sense to sue, wow! Me thinks something is rotten in Denmark!

Me thinks something might be rotten between her ears...

why not jump off the bridge? I wish I can live my life just looking for an excuse to sue someone or something.

im not sure why its an issue to walk in an unfamiliar city? thats just stupid. people do that all the time when they are vacationing. nor should it matter she chose walking over a cab. nor should it matter that she chose to get her info from google. i think you have missed the point!

I'm willing to bet her intolerance in a result of google also. They didn't warn her of the potential side effects of dairy products.

"Ya can't fix stupid"

That's exactly what I was thinking as I read this article.

"you can't fix stupid" is about right. stupid people shouldn't breed. walking on the highway is as dumb as putting hot coffee between your legs. lawyers are just as bad. this country is messed up!

guns kill people like spoons made rosie o'donnell fat! this is the fate of our country, folks!

What a waste of valuable court time and expense in a time when we are short on both..............google should give her a paper map, a magnifying glass and a compass....and tip their hat and wish her well..........................and advise her loved one to take out a large life insurance policy on her.

Would she also sue if it rained and she got wet after being informed the sun would shine all day?

Good grief...............get a life!....grow a brain!....find a rich husband (oops, that would be kind of like working, huh?)........................just go to McDonald's and spill coffee on yourself, I hear that works.

Look where the court case is. Remember, it was behind the Zion curtain that those four guys were tried for rapping out the order jingle at McD's drive-thru and traumatized the girl at the other counter.

Hey thinker, think a little more. Don't blame Utah. The girl was from Los Angeles County.

sanford53

That is a very poor analogy. We have in this country more gun deaths than any other country because of the people who insist on having guns. Examples:

• People who have anger management problems
• People with drug and alcohol issues
• People who think that property violations are ample justification to shoot another person
• People who don't safeguard their guns from children
• People who don't safeguard their guns from theft by criminals
• People who don't understand, the way police are training and understand, when to shoot and when not to shoot
• People who think that automatic weapons have a place in civilized society

Guns.... Crime.

Matches.... Arson.

Hey allflow - learn to comprehend. I didn't blame Utah. I blamed the idiotic lawyers in Utah for filing such a ridiculous suit. Get a looser pair of jesus jammies - you have the present ones in a bunch.

You should watch Utah local news. There was a broadcast that showed a local reporter taking the same route that Miss Ditz took. Seems as though there was a walking path right near the roadway that she walked on. The reporter tried talking to the lawyers and they refused to comment.

Ya can't fix stupid, ya can't shoot stupid maybe we can castrate stupid. oh wait that goes against their right to be stupid. Maybe we should sue stupid people for complicating our lives

That's not too bad. I Googled "Flying Saucers" and what I read there frightened me so much I put Crazy Glue in between my butt cheeks every night so the aliens can't give me an anal probe.

I'm suing Google too!

lol

LMAO!

i dont care who your are...thats funny

This lady is a resident of LA County--I'm guessing here, but it's likely she doesn't have very much experience being a pedestrian and using common sense when walking near moving cars.

I live in the suburbs of Florida. So I guess that makes me stupid for not knowing how to walk on a busy street without sidewalks. I guess I would just, I dunno, not walk on a busy street.

Hmm, so if I follow directions from google and get mugged, that's Google's fault too because they should of warned me not to go into 'that' neighborhood!?

And of course, the city or county that maintains that street has full responsibility also, because they didn't paint instructions on the sidewalk every 500 feet saying, Warning - moving without brain engaged can be dangerous to your health!

But if they warned you not to go into that neighborhood, that could be construed as discrimination and then another law suit...

And pay the defendants' legal expenses.

Only because she didn't die - she might still be able to procreate.

Darwin also awards "Honorable Mentions" for those that fail to achieve a "Darwin Award"on the first try.

We need a little more chlorine in the gene pool.

That's because we allow lawyers to impede the will of God.

Lawyers, and OSHA took the place of natural selection. Keeping these thinking deficiant people alive.

clearly she had only a short-block (i.e. missing heads). No wonder she had to walk.

That would take more brain power than she apparently has. Maybe she should have, then she wouldn't have been walking.

Was she too focused on looking at the gps and not paying attention to the fact that she "drifted" into the travel lane? Even if there are no sidewalks there is a shoulder next to the paved driving surface.

Of course not then she would be sueing the gum company too, for the distraction!

Haha, "Chewing gum helps me think." - "Honey, you're wasting your gum."

Sorry, immediately popped into my head! What a moron, seriously.

I want to know how the attorney kept from falling off his chair as this diz-bat told then her story.

Hey, that's natures will. I mean who appreciates the vulture, the hyena or the cockroach. Someone's got to pick over the dead corpses. Unfortunately, why is America now a symbol of a dead corpse that every scavenger fights over?

Come to think of it I did see a bunch of vultures toting leather satchels entering and exiting the courthouse the other day.

I don't like PC either, Mac is way better...

I know what you are saying. Utah is mostly geniuses! You really have to be smart to want more wives and kids. The rest of society needs to recognize a great religion and way of life when they see it!

The sheep in Utah are not anal retentive any longer due to morons (not mormons) like noodledick.

well, it's easy to see who fits into the SoCal moron department by the negative responses. Think you could use a bit more tact than flaming people individually, as it's forbidden by the CoC here.

Will do Capt Crunch.