A woman is suing JC Penney Co. after a mannequin's arm snapped off and knocked her in the head, cutting her scalp, cracking a tooth, and causing other injuries. The incident occurred when a salesperson at the Westiminster Mall store attempted to remove the mannequin's shirt which the plaintiff wanted to purchase. Apparently, mannequins can be quite dangerous. From the LA Times:
"There are a slew of lawsuits like this," said mannequin manufacturer Barry Rosenberg, who joked that stores should run background checks on dummies before letting them mingle with shoppers.
Most of the cases involved mannequins toppling over onto customers, but an Indiana woman claimed she caught herpes from the lips of a CPR training dummy. She dropped her lawsuit against the American Red Cross in 2000 after further tests revealed that she didn't have the disease, according to news reports.
Link (Thanks, Paul Saffo!)
