In an accident seemingly snatched from the movie Zoolander, a man says a Pompano Beach gas station's faulty pump maimed him, according to a recent court filing.
In March 2009, Richard and Susan Gold pulled into a RaceTrac filling
station at 599 Atlantic Blvd., Broward County Civil Court documents
indicate.
Richard Gold started to pump gas, putting the nozzle on the auto-fill
setting. He assumed that the switch would cut off the flow when the tank was
full, as they normally do.
Suddenly, however, "a high volume of gasoline started spewing" from the
tank into the air and onto the ground, around the pump and his vehicle.
Gold, "fearing the immediate combustion dangers to himself and other
customers," tried to get control of the "spewing nozzle," court docs
say.
While doing so, he slipped and fell on the ground.
Gold is blaming this mishap on the pump, saying that he would have never
have been in a risky position and hurt his "head, neck, arms, back and
legs and other injuries not yet diagnosed" had the mechanism worked. He's demanding a jury trial and wants the petroleum giant to pay for his injuries.
Susan Gold has also tacked herself onto the lawsuit. Her reasoning?
Because of the bad gas, she says that her hubby is pretty much useless, as per the
"loss of the services and consortium of her husband."
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