Last week, all humanity thrilled to the footage caught on a mall security camera of a walking-and-texting woman falling into a fountain. This week, the once-anonymous woman is doing an airing-of-grievances media blitz, complete with threats of legal action against those who made her hilarious klutziness an internet sensation.

Here’s falling mall lady’s appearance on ABC News:

And here’s what she told CBS:

Cruz Marrero says what does hurt is “the humiliation (from the video having been put online). The humiliation. Ask my husband: I cried for days. … You don’t know how many people are laughing at me.”

Does a person have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a mall? (I say no.) Is uploading mall surveillance footage to YouTube (or allowing it to be shot on a cell phone and then uploaded to YouTube) a firing offense? (I say yes.) Is this woman likely to see any money for her pain and humiliation? I have no idea, so have it at, armchair lawyers o’ Blogtown.

17 replies on “Internet Superstar May Sue Those Who Made Her a Star”

  2. The stupid thing is that she had anonymity before. No one could have recognized her in that shit quality video. Now everyone knows who she is. This is obviously about money and not humiliation.

  4. Streisand effect in action. Is there a term for the moment in time when someone realizes they made a very, very large error in judgement in “suing the Internet?” Streisand-Whoops-Effect or something more catchy?

  7. True that she had no expectation of privacy in a mall. Whether it should be a firing offense to put up the video surveillance online depends on who owns the footage.

    And if she did get some money, who would it be from?

  8. Fun fact. I bought my Liz Phair Exile in Guyville in that mall (Berkshire Mall in Reading, PA ) at I think The Wall. There was also a pair of conjoined twins who frequented that mall, though I only saw them on TLC and not at the actual mall.

    If only the Liz Phair ticket contest was today!

  9. She plays the victim like “I was only giving out my Birth Date”, as if it was a really important event, as if she would say a different thing, like, “I was googling what conference meant” the lawsuit would be harder to win. Or just like “I was surfing soft porn in the net, and I fell into the mall pool” would render the case null.

    Like what she was doing with her phone will help her to win the lawsuit and is of importance and has weight within the case.

  12. So let’s sum up:
    She’s an employee of THAT mall.
    She walked into a fountain.
    She wanted Mall security to…not laugh.
    George Stephanopolous allows her to say “Nobody went to my aid”.

    Lady, nut up and shut up, YOU walked into the fountain. Exactly WHO is responsible for a nitwit walking into a fountain? The nitwit! The gods must laugh so hard.

    Do not text and walk. Or chew gum and walk maybe?

  14. Staging falls for profit is a felony. A good mall would have at least 4 views of that area and retain the tape.

    The mall company will have to fire the mall security firm that released the video. Mall security should alway be contractors.

  16. the funny thing is that this is the first time i see that video. if she really didn’t want people to see the video, maybe going on national tv and talking about it wasn’t the best way to go about that.

    ps: haha!

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