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According To A Lawsuit, The Phillie Phanatic Really Messed This Lady’s Day Up

It looks like having a star on the back of your jersey instead of a number doesn’t exempt you from the Phillies’ woes this year: The Phillie Phanatic is being sued by an Abington woman claiming he caused her serious bodily harm by throwing her into a pool.

According to the Daily News, Suzanne Peirce was participating in a wedding in Avalon, NJ when the Phillie Phanatic, as he is wont to do, tossed her and her lounge chair into the shallow end of the pool. Everyone’s favorite Galapagos native apparently fucked her shit up pretty good, as her lawsuit claims:

As a result of being thrown into the hotel pool, plaintiff suffered severe and permanent injuries to her head, neck, back, body, arms and legs, bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves and tissues of her head, neck, back, arms and legs, including but not limited to, a herniated L5-S1 disc, aggravation and/or exacerbation of all known and unknown pre-existing medical conditions, internal injuries of an unknown nature, severe aches, pains, mental anxiety and anguish, and a severe shock to her entire nervous system and other injuries, the full extent of which is not yet know”

So … you know … everything. Pierce isn’t sure which “friend of the Phanatic” was there that day, so the suit names Tom Burgoyne, Matt Mehler or any other unnamed individual inside the green suit that day, along with the hotel and the Phillies organization. And it basically sums up how this year is going for the organization. We can’t blame this on the lack of run support too can we?

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 at 9:50 am.

  • Conor B.

    This is bulls*** last I checked falling into a body of water does not have the same effect as being hit by a truck.  She’s trying to get her money back for the losing games she attended this season….oh wait, that’s all of them.  

  • xmixiex

    you’re kidding, right? people have broken their necks and/or died in pool accidents. it was a stupid, stupid thing to do. the girl’s apparently in her 30s and needs to walk with a cane now. that. sucks.

  • Conor B.

    I hear what you’re saying but in this case not enough details were given on the actual “toss into the pool”.  If its what i’m thinking, him pretty much pushing her into the pool, sure she might have hurt a leg but that amount of damage literally sounds like she got hit by a truck.  It was to multiple unrelated parts of her body! what did she fall in and bounce around like a pinball machine?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1084377473 Kyle Andrews

    It would be awesome if one of the “friends of the Phanatic” showed up to court in costume(in a dark suit).

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1084377473 Kyle Andrews

    Phucked up by the Phillie Phanatic. Dag!

  • xmixiex

    yeah dude I hear ya too- but you never know. I was in a relatively minor car accident last year and it did things to my back that made NO sense, once certain nerves are effected it just spreads… I’m in no way a fan of frivolous lawsuits- I used to work for a well known slime ball personal injury lawyer and trust me, I’ve seen them. this legit sounds reckless and dangerous. lawsuits aren’t about ‘what if,’ but you never know someone’s condition- despite growing up in the water I now cant submerge my head because of a medical problem.