Incidents like this in Atlantic City casinos used to be a common story on the local news. Would-be scam artists would try it in elevators, parking decks, near the pools, etc. They finally tapered off after folks realized there were cameras everywhere except inside the bathrooms. 
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Damn, really? I slipped pretty badly a few weeks ago in a Target bathroom’s giant pee puddle but was able to recover before falling… I guess I should have just gone with it.
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Don’t do it, I tell ya!
I slid down a slide one night at a park, and didn’t realize the bottom was full of pee.
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Eh, they sell pants there. I could just tell them to charge it to my settlement. 
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I have slipped and fallen on my back before. It depends on what the foot that slipped was doing at the moment.
It´s tripping that will normallymake you fall forwards
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He’d never have to work another day of his life.
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I skidded out in a rain puddle going through a Sears auto repair bay, fell sideways and twisted my ankle. It took Sears nearly an hour to decide to send me to a nearby Urgent Care clinic. The fun started when the clinic began to dun me for payment for my treatment. I had to threaten to get a lawyer before Sears paid for it.
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Been there, done this!
I was once deposed on a class action lawsuit where a person claimed we gave them paperwork that violated a particular law. (My system printed the paper in question.) Our lawyers were were taking this case very seriously, because if we had actually committed the violation as claimed, it likely would have been 10-figures expensive.
There were four of us giving our depositions that day. Their lawyer got to talk to each of us for an hour, asking questions which we answered. Typical deposition stuff that I’d gone through several times before. I confirmed that the paper was printed by our systems, and explained why the system printed two pieces of paper, and how the customer was supposed to sign the one clearly labeled “BUSINESS COPY - CUSTOMER SIGNATURE X_____” , and that the other one labeled “CUSTOMER COPY” was for the customer to take with them. The fourth person to testify, however, brought additional information with them which our lawyer asked to be entered into evidence. The evidence was in the form of a DVD from the security cameras which had captured the entire incident from an overhead angle.
We all watched together as the camera showed our employee taking two pieces of paper from the printer. They set both of them down on the counter, and pen-in-hand the employee pushed one of them over to the claimant, tapping the box with the signature line with the tip of the pen before setting the pen down upon it. The employee turned their attention to something else. In that moment the claimant reached up with both hands, and in a picture-perfect 3-card-monte move they swapped the two pieces of paper! They then signed the one intended for them to take home, handing it to our employee; and they left with the copy intended for our records.
Amidst these very serious proceedings, I’m not sure that we successfully stifled all our laughter.
Their lawyer made a few half-hearted attempts to continue questioning, but it was clear to everyone in the room that this case probably wasn’t going to proceed much further.
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My left elbow would disagree; it shoots out behind me and I seem to land on it whenever I slip on ice. I’m astonished I haven’t broken it yet.
I’m not sure grifters like this are necessarily “desperate for money”. Some are, others are clearly not and just like to grab some easy cash.
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nope, i just made an assumption (my first mistake) that this was something most of us had already seen. second mistake was choosing to be a downer about it. moving on…
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I guess I just feel like anyone willing to debase themselves by lying on the ground and pretending to have fallen, for money, is desperate, but I admit that’s just my own bias.
You are assuming they see it as “debasing” themselves as opposed to them owning their marks. To a crook, this kind of scam is them having power and dominance over others, hurting people through lies, and getting paid for it. Some may do it out of desperation, others do it because they enjoy it.
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I saw this one recently!!
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