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Model Falls, Gets Up, Files Lawsuit

Posted Feb 27th 2009 8:31AM by TMZ Staff

You shouldn't be allowed to sue over a video this funny -- but alas, someone is.



Sarah Welch -- a model and former contestant on "The Bachelor" -- is suing several companies involved with the fashion show she worked at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood on October 18, 2007.

We found the lawsuit -- filed in Santa Monica earlier this month. Welch claims she suffered "great injuries to her body, shock and injuries to her nervous system" after she fell through a hole in the runway which was created by the performer who went on before her.

Welch is suing for negligence and is seeking unspecified damages.

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1. That hole was the size of Texas. Stevie Wonder could have seen it!!

Posted at 9:23AM on Feb 27th 2009 by Peter Griffin

2. Have a nice trip? See you next fall....

Posted at 9:27AM on Feb 27th 2009 by Luke Warmwater

3. They have to look straight ahead they can't look down. She didn't expect there to be a giant hole there. She should sue. I fell 20 years ago and to this day I'm still on pain meds, getting EDS injections and surgeries. If she is really hurt than they need to pay.

Posted at 9:26AM on Feb 27th 2009 by me

4. i feel bad for her but it was funny lol

Posted at 9:28AM on Feb 27th 2009 by gigi1628

5. Oh purlease...the hole was huge! Serves her right for not looking wheres she's going!

Posted at 9:29AM on Feb 27th 2009 by Carla

6. lol

Posted at 9:27AM on Feb 27th 2009 by gigi1628

7. Oh please pain meds for 20 years. She fell get over it. People like you need to get over it and worry about the people that are overseas fighting for our freedom. Or even the families that have been affected by 9/11. She fell she got up.... GET OVER IT... If anything comes out of it is a great laugh. Plus that whole was the size of Texas.

Posted at 9:30AM on Feb 27th 2009 by John

8. The ninja should have at least tried to fix the hole.

Posted at 9:31AM on Feb 27th 2009 by Billbo Baggins

9. Why didn't the ninja try to fix the hole?

Posted at 9:32AM on Feb 27th 2009 by Bilbo

10. All you folks that are blaming the model are idiots. If this happened to you, you would be on the phone to your lawyer before you got out of the hospital. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Posted at 9:34AM on Feb 27th 2009 by People Need To Get A Life

11. So I'm guessing most of you haven't seen Top Model..

They aren't supposed to look down when they walk. I agree she should sue, but she should of finished the walk!

Posted at 9:36AM on Feb 27th 2009 by musiclver05

12. It wasn't funny until the slow-motion replay audio OOOOOHHhh NNOOOOooo! LOL

Posted at 9:36AM on Feb 27th 2009 by lola

13. 6. All you folks that are blaming the model are idiots. If this happened to you, you would be on the phone to your lawyer before you got out of the hospital. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Posted at 9:34AM on Feb 27th 2009 by People Need To Get A Life


And if it happened to me, I would not have waited more than a year to sue.

Posted at 9:37AM on Feb 27th 2009 by Peter Griffin

14. That's ridiculous! It's obvious nobody bothered to inform her that the last act had created a hole in the walkway. And that is one flimsy-ass catwalk that can't handle a small asian man falling on it.

Posted at 9:40AM on Feb 27th 2009 by Mary

15. Did the Asian man sue?

Posted at 9:43AM on Feb 27th 2009 by Peter Griffin

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