Society People & Cultures

The lawyers for the City of Seattle asked me, if your friend was so dizzy to begin with, what was she doing on top of the Space Needle? I explained that we were meeting her family up there for dinner, at the revolving restaurant. (It was on them.) We just decided to look around, as we had gotten up there a few minutes early……the next thing I knew, Terri stepped out onto the terrace, lost her balance, and fell 850 feet to the ground, instantly killed. I didn’t have to tell her parents and her brothers; they saw the ambulance as soon as they arrived at the front of the building. For a couple of minutes, I was completely shaken, but then I remembered that her family was on the way and ran to the elevators, shrieking and yelling out the front door. Somehow the police got me to identify Terri’s body. I insisted that I hadn’t had anything to do with it and that her family was coming, so they rushed Terri to the hospital to pretty much pronounce her dead, and then took us ALL to the police headquarters for questioning. One of the many things the officer said to me was, that if you want to sue the city for negligence, you just might have a case, if you can get someone who’s a really sharp personal injury attorney in Seattle. Another thing the cop said to me, of course, was, “You were both up there at the same time. Would you mind telling me exactly what happened?” I knew from the look on his face that he wouldn’t believe me, no matter what I said.