Posted on 08/01/2012 4:02:41 PM PDT by grundle
The parents of a woman who died at the “Haunted Hotel Ball” at the Palmer House Hilton in 2010 are suing the hotel and the event hosts.
James and Deborah Duskey claim the death of their daughter Megan at the Halloween-themed ball was due to the negligence of the hotel and the event companies who hosted the party in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court.
The suit names Hilton Worldwide, the Palmer House Hilton, Surreal Chicago and Adrenaline Y2K as the hosts of the party.
Megan Duskey fell four floors to her death after she tried to slide down a railing on the Palmer House Hilton, at 17 E. Monroe St., on October 30, 2010.
The suit claims the hotel and event hosts allowed people at the ball to “consume unlimited amounts of alcoholic beverages” after they paid for a ticket and failed to provide security to protect the patrons of the ball.
Duskey, 23, was an elementary school teacher at Orville T. Bright Elementary School on the far South Side. She was dressed as comic book superhero the Silver Spectre when she died, authorities said at the time.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said Duskey was dead at the scene, and they ruled her death an accident.
The ten-count suit seeks more than $500,000 in compensation for Duskey’s wrongful death.
Brian Pfeiffer, CEO of Surreal Chicago, one of the event hosts, declined to comment on the suit because Duskey’s death occurred in the lobby of the hotel and did not happen while she was at the party.
Efforts to reach Hilton Worldwide and Adrenaline Y2K were unsuccessful Tuesday night.
From the headline you’d think the deceased was six years old.
Death by stupidity ......
True, and probably hadn’t spend the evening pounding down tequila shots...
Robert A. Heinlein ~ Time Enough For Love
I agree with your post. She was an attractive woman, and it is too bad she died, but it was her fault.
Her parents should be ashamed of themselves. At worst, they didn’t raise her with any more commonsense than she displayed, and at best, they are abdicating their responsibility and blaming others.
I am sick to death of this.
Duskey, 23, was an elementary school teacher
There is a lesson there. See: Darwin, Charles. Of course it’s ridiculous. Which means, they’ll probably award it.
23 year old gets drunk and kills herself with an act of stupidity and her parents sue. This is exactly what’s wrong with our society
Megan Duskey fell four floors to her death after she tried to slide down a railing... Duskey, 23, was an elementary school teacher at Orville T. Bright Elementary School on the far South Side. She was dressed as comic book superhero the Silver Spectre when she died, authorities said at the time.The bright side is, at least one stupid drunk is no longer teaching at OTBES.
girl, Girl GIRL??? well she acted like one anyway and the woMANS libbers are silent... feh
I’m amazed that they’re only going for 500 grand.
R-i-c-o-c-h-e-t!
...the same media that calls all those 19-year old murderers, rapists and flash mobbers are all “teens”?
Who told her it was okay to slide her fat ass down the railing four flights up? Oh, I forgot. She's part of the teacher's union. They believe they have an exclusive right to immortality.
Classic darwinism in action. Remember, it is not the survival of the individual, rather the survival of the species. So, just feed more alcohol to these morons and the gene pool will eventually improve.
Correct. Almost dumb enough for a Darwin Award nomination. Personal responsibility......it's a novel concept that has been forgotten somewhere along the way to our current nanny state, blame everyone, pity me society. The sooner the stupid die, the better off the rest of us are. Slide away morons...............
“From the headline you’d think the deceased was six years old.”
Yeah! I was wondering how come they let this little girl get drunk!
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