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The Sprinkle Pool Lawsuit: A Grown Man's Scheme
from Post-Thanksgiving Extravaganza | The Tim Dillon Show #419 · #419
5 min
News
Tim mocks the specifics of the Museum of Ice Cream lawsuit, imagining the father staging his own injury for a settlement, and mocks adults doing cannonballs into a plastic sprinkle pit.
- Museum of Soho visitor sued after ankle fracture jumping into the sprinkle pool with his daughter.
- Tim points out the sprinkle pool is only ankle-to-mid-shin deep, made of hollow plastic—testing the depth first seems obvious.
- Videos submitted with the lawsuit show other adults injuring themselves doing cannonballs and falling in the sprinkle pool.
- Tim watches footage of a grown woman doing a cannonball onto a floor with plastic sprinkles and calls it the stupidest thing he's seen.
- Society is in decline if we need regulated sprinkle pools because adults can't figure out not to jump into shallow plastic.
- Tim theorizes the plaintiff saw people get injured, knew he needed money, and deliberately planned to sue by jumping in the pool.
- Tim imagines the man pitching his broke wife: he'll jump in the sprinkle pool, sprain himself, get bad press, and settle for four or five hundred thousand.
- The complaint cites insufficient warnings about sprinkle pool dangers while people are dying in wars and getting kidnapped from festivals.
- Tim says if you sue a museum over a sprinkle pool injury, you can never tell that story in mixed company again no matter how much money you get.
- This is the most undignified thing Tim has seen in seven years of doing the show—a grown man injured in the sprinkle pool.
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