# A Toast! To Floyd Shuler: With Balls Big Enough to Sue for Drunken Escalator Accident

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**Created:** [April 2, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-floyd-shuler-with-balls-big-enough-to-sue-for-drunken-escalator-accident/237926 "2004-04-02T18:13:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-toast-to-floyd-shuler-with-balls-big-enough-to-sue-for-drunken-escalator-accident/237926/1 "2004-04-02T18:13:25Z")

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[I don’t know if USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2004-03-31-drunk-usair_x.htm) or the Naples Daily News in Fla even researches this stuff before it goes to print:

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> A West Virginia man (& part-time **Marco Island** resident) who fell down an escalator at an airport sued US Airways, alleging the airline **didn’t warn him** about the **adverse affects of drinking alcohol** on a plane.  
> Floyd W. Shuler, 61, filed the lawsuit against Virginia-based US Airways Inc., in circuit court in Fort Myers…The suit seeks damages in excess of $15,000.

You might say:  
**It’s only $15K** : Yeah. By my calculations, that’ll get him 40 cases of Absolut and his attorney 20 cases of Johhny Walker Red. If this action is either settled out of court or goes to trial, I wish them both a lifetime hangover.

**Oh, it’ll be thrown out as frivilous** : The fact it was thrown _in_ in the first place makes me (and probably the majority of taxpayers in Ft Meyers) want to throw _up_.