A hand model, magician and actor blames a Martha Stewart-branded lounge chair for snipping off a bit of his livelihood.
In a lawsuit filed Monday against Kmart Corp. and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Patrick Albanese said he was moving the Martha Stewart Everyday lounge chair on a deck in June when the front tubular legs collapsed, crushing his right index finger between one of the chair legs and a tubular bar on the base of the chair.
The lawsuit said the fingertip fell beneath the deck but was later retrieved by a relative. Albanese’s attorney, Guy Cook, said the finger tip was reattached by a surgeon.
Albanese, of the Des Moines suburb of Clive, is seeking compensation for past and future medical expenses, physical and mental pain and suffering, permanent partial disfigurement and loss of earning capacity.
While Albanese is reportedly not suffering for hand model work, the incident “has had a bigger impact on Albenese’s work as a magician.”
Via Forbes
UPDATE: I had no knowledge of ECB’s recent Martha Stewart coverage prior to posting this.
He should have worn gloves like George Costanza….
Wasn’t this an Arrested Development episode?
Good thing he was in hand modeling and not porn, eh? Eh?
I know! As I was reading the text, I kept thinking ‘livelihood’ was a code word for penis. Got all the way to the end, vaguely puzzled, before reallizing.
I hurt myself, and you will all pay for it.
First you have to be brighter than the lounge chair, moron.
“Oooh, ow, I stepped on a rake and the handle popped up and broke my nose! I’m suing Home Despot for selling it to me, wah wah!”