Well, people still were skating in the street on the way there. I was doing ollies out there. Didn’t fall on any manhole covers, though. Fell on my ass. grumble.
The purpose of a stovetop burner is to BE a very hot thing. That’s why it EXISTS. Any reasonable person familiar with what a stovetop burner does knows that they can sometimes be very hot. This is something that people generally learn when they are toddlers. Yet somehow my mother never told me, “Honey, never touch a manhole cover, because it might be hot enough to cause severe burns and send you to the emergency room.”
I’m not sure where you’re from, but here on planet Earth where I live, manhole covers exist for the purpose of covering the holes in the street that are used to access underground pipes, wires, and the like. If you and this woman are from somewhere that installs manhole covers as cooking surfaces for the local homeless population, then you certainly have a point and I apologize.
Maybe she was on her way over.
If the people of New York City are so accustomed to hazards in the street that a case in which someone is permanently scarred by a red-hot piece of metal seems like a routine occurrence, I’d say that the people of New York City need to re-think their tolerance for dangers in public places. In my town, if a person fell down in the street (regardless of what time of day it happened to be), and that person was burned by a sizzling manhole cover, there would be widespread outrage, and the City Council would be compelled to do something about the situation.
We’ve been through a lot lately, if you haven’t heard. 
MHC get hot during the day, they’re metal it happans, this however was midnight, metal cools off by then.
MHC are thick, like really thick, the amount of heat that needed to heat that much metal that high is rediculous and doesn’t happan instantly.
I have heard the problem with Com Ed and i don’t pay close attention to the news nor do i live in NY. The problem is huge and it’s not just MHC in some sections of side walk people get zapped by walking on CONCRETE there has to be some major charge running through those areas for people to feel it not only through their shoes but al though inches of non conducting material.
IMHO the only stupid bitch here is com ed, i no i would sure as hell sue if i had the logo of a company as inept as that branded on my skin because they were dangerously negligent
Yes, I know. Have public safety measures been ignored as a result?
She was wearing clothes, didn’t lie there for many minutes, and it was still hot enough to leave permanent marks? Is this common in New York, so that everyone knows not to go anywhere near a manhole cover? ConEd has some sort of warning sign posted, and PSAs are aired about staying away?
I was all ready to say she was an idiot and should be ashamed. I thought the cover was just hot from the sun and that wouldn’t leave permanent marks on anyone with healthy skin. But to know you have manhole covers that could be so hot and you don’t even slap a warning sign somewhere until you can fix the problem permanently, is wrong. They knew there was a problem, with the electrified covers at the very least, and they should have been checking every cover for problems of any sort, routinely.
I detest frivolous lawsuits, and sometimes don’t even agree with ‘teach them a lesson’ lawsuits. In this case, where she’s almost certainly going to have bills to treat the burns and then somehow find a way to have them removed, ConEd needs to pay up.
She was skateboarding at midnight because she was a considerate skateboarder, maybe. Fewer people to annoy at midnight. Or that’s just how she gets around. Midnight isn’t so late if you’ve been at a friend’s house watching movies or need to zip out for a bag of chips, etc. especially in New York. Perhaps she works at night. I just woke up an hour ago, and it’s 4pm here. I did laundry at 2 am this morning and thankfully was not scarred by a boiling hot washer/dryer. Phew!
This sounds like another McDonald’s coffee debate.
This is New York. It’s a tough town.
This does not sound like the coffee debate. Nobody resonably expects to be harmed by touching a man hole cover.
So a metalic surface was hot enough to burn and not in someways marked as such, nor behind some safety barrier. Sounds like that shouldn’t be allowed to me.
You mean completely reasonable and deserving of a large settlement and a change in policy and procedure to prevent it from happening again?
Yep. Hell, ConEd just declared they were spending eight million bucks or so on the electrical issue.
I don’t think that there is enough safety tape on earth to barricade every manhole cover in NYC.
Mr. Blue Sky, I hate to say it, but this seems like a premature “MPSIMSing” (formerly known as Pitting) based on nothing more than distaste for litigation.
Or a woman doing somthing stupid and getting burned, depending on who you ask.
For those of us watching from home; can you please state what that stupid this was?
And naturally I garbled my post. This=thing. <sigh>
When I feel it to be ridiculous, then I must get the distaste out of my mouth. Your distaste may vary, of course.
We will probably never learn why the manhole cover was supposedly so hot. If she has a legitimate case, then she should be compensated - for medical bills (including any plastic surgery), but that’s it. Unfortunately, she’ll end up getting millions for “suffering”. Boo hoo.
I have to wonder why it’s taken her nearly a year to file a lawsuit. I would think she’d have filed a lawsuit shortly after it happened. I smell lawyer slime.*
*Note: not all lawyers are slime.