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Chicago, IL -- A woman who says she was attacked by a squirrel after walking out of the Tiffany and Co. jewelry store at the Old Orchard Shopping Center, in 2004 filed suit against the shopping center Monday, saying its employees "encouraged" the squirrel's presence by feeding it.
Marcy Meckler had just left Tiffany's and was walking in a courtyard area of the Skokie shopping center about 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 3, 2004, when a squirrel "jump[ed] up and attach[ed] itself to her leg," the lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, read.
"As a result," the suit says, Meckler, "while frantically attempting to escape from the squirrel and detach it from her leg, fell and suffered severe injuries."
The suit, which alleges Meckler suffered internal and external injuries "and will in the future endure pain and suffering in body and mind," did not detail the woman's injuries.
The suit alleges that through its employees and security personnel, Westfield Corp., which owns and manages the Old Orchard shopping center, "encouraged the squirrel to remain on the premises by feeding and caring for the squirrel, despite the dangerous conditions that arose from allowing said animal to remain on the premises."
The shopping center management was negligent in, among other things, failing "to warn the plaintiff of the squirrel's presence," the suit contends.
The suit seeks damages in excess of $50,000.
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Chicago, IL -- A woman who says she was attacked by a squirrel after walking out of the Tiffany and Co. jewelry store at the Old Orchard Shopping Center, in 2004 filed suit against the shopping center Monday, saying its employees "encouraged" the squirrel's presence by feeding it.
Marcy Meckler had just left Tiffany's and was walking in a courtyard area of the Skokie shopping center about 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 3, 2004, when a squirrel "jump[ed] up and attach[ed] itself to her leg," the lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, read.
"As a result," the suit says, Meckler, "while frantically attempting to escape from the squirrel and detach it from her leg, fell and suffered severe injuries."
The suit, which alleges Meckler suffered internal and external injuries "and will in the future endure pain and suffering in body and mind," did not detail the woman's injuries.
The suit alleges that through its employees and security personnel, Westfield Corp., which owns and manages the Old Orchard shopping center, "encouraged the squirrel to remain on the premises by feeding and caring for the squirrel, despite the dangerous conditions that arose from allowing said animal to remain on the premises."
The shopping center management was negligent in, among other things, failing "to warn the plaintiff of the squirrel's presence," the suit contends.
The suit seeks damages in excess of $50,000.
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