Globetrotting CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is often at the scene of danger, but he allegedly overlooked a potentially deadly hazard in the Greenwich Village firehouse he’s converting into a new home.
A 29-year-old interior designer is suing Cooper and the company owned by downtown architect and residential real-estate developer Cary Tamarkin after she fell through a hole that once accommodated a fire pole.
I wonder how unobservant one has to be to fall through a readily apparent hole in a floor? It’s not like she was walking along a perfectly solid floor and a hole just opened up beneath her. The hole was there, and she apparently walked right into it. That is, I am sorry to say, completely stupid. If I had to guess, she was probably yakking or texting on her cellphone when it happened and not paying attention to the very large hole that would have been plainly visible in the floor. But I’m sure she’ll get some money out of the situation and be paid for being a ding-dong who can’t stop herself from being too stupid to not walk into an existing hole in a floor and falling through it.
Word of advice to all humans: watch where you’re walking, especially on the second floor of an old fire station undergoing renovation.
He’s converting a firestation to live in and had removed the pole? Come on, I’d love to live somewhere with a fire pole!
I thought that was kind of silly too. I would love, love, love to have a fire station to live in, and I guarantee the pole would remain … and I would use it. That would be so fun!
Actually, what I want is an indoor climbing wall that goes right the way up the side of my house. As many floors as possible with opportunity to step off at any one of them. But I’d have removable barriers just in case I expected visitors to be problematic.