A Fordham University student went to sleep drunk one night in his University's dormitory bed, and as weird as it sounds, woke up in a hospital bed paralyzed from the neck down. What? So, he went to bed drunk and woke up paralyzed? Nothing seems fishy about this? Maybe a possible scene from "The Hangover 3"?
According to the lawsuit blaming the Bronx campus, this 20-year-old Fordham University sophomore, Kei Usami fell nearly four feet off a school-supplied “loft” bed back in February, hitting his head so hard that the impact fractured his spine. His family is suing for neglecting to install guardrails on the bed. Really? This kid was 20, right? Did he really need guardrails on his bed? Anyway, the university’s student volunteer EMS squad only sealed the school tennis player’s fate by transporting him without a neck brace to St. Barnabas Hospital. Wait isn't that EMS 101? Even I know to stabilize the body in the case of a back or neck injury. I think there's your case rather than blaming the school for no guardrails!
Fordham University is blaming Usami for the incident accusing him of being irresponsible with "his voluntary consumption of large amounts of alcohol." Though, they're blaming Usami, Fordham has since sued two companies that supplied them the beds.
Fordham started providing the loft beds in their dorms after they started putting three students into two student dorm rooms. To me, it sounds like Usami is not blaming the beds, though. The lawsuit is claiming that the school neglected to put guardrails on the beds. Again, these are college kids, right? Not children or mentally challenged students. College kids!
After four months in the hospital and $1.1 million in medical bills, Kei Usami returned to his Darien, Connecticut home in a wheelchair, where he regained movement in his left hand after some grueling physical therapy. Usami returned to Fordham this fall to continue studying business, and when he goes to watch the tennis team that he used to play for, he has to be carried into the clubhouse. Usami says that his goal is to attend his 2013 graduation and walk up and get my diploma, which would be pretty cool, but I think that alcoholic negligence should be blamed for this accident, and not the school or the supposed faulty beds that their supplying for their students. What do you think?
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