Brazen fraudsters' attempt at slip-and-fall lawsuit falls flat after hilarious surveillance footage is uncovered

A landlord was deed pinch a clone suit revenge by a man filmed feigning wounded from a autumn connected a agelong of sidewalk extracurricular his building.

The unnamed building proprietor connected Thursday produced surveillance footage of nan suspected slip-and-fall successful nan Bronx, which appeared to beryllium not truthful serious.

It shows 2 men propulsion up connected a scooter and destruct nan portion of nan sidewalk successful question, earlier different man strolls by and undergoes a spectacle of a spill. 

He drags his backmost ft and falls astatine nan aforesaid nonstop spot nan 2 men destroyed, and is now suing nan building proprietor claiming he injured his backmost and knees.

He besides said he suffered psychological injuries from nan autumn and that he couldn't activity arsenic a result. The expected unfortunate was not identified.

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'It's 100 percent fraud,' Attorney Marc Sloane told ABC 7 Thursday, arsenic nan New York station's On Your Side honed successful connected this and different perchance clone mishap claims.   

'You cognize outright this doesn't make immoderate sense,' different building owner, this 1 successful Brooklyn, said arsenic nan station's investigation squad looked into different suspected scam.

'I consciousness this is, like, immoderate benignant of setup that goes connected beyond our control,' he said, arsenic footage of that autumn showed different man crumpling to nan level successful a questionable display.  

As he suggested, New York is simply a hive for akin slip-and-fall claims, pinch these 2 serving arsenic immoderate of nan astir recent, dubious examples.

In fiscal twelvemonth 2023, nan 5 boroughs spent immoderate $53.5 cardinal to conflict them back, section comptroller statistic show - pinch nan 1 successful Brooklyn successful peculiar precocious coming to question.    

'It's not legitimate,' Sloane sniped while sitting down pinch nan section outlet. 'It's fraud.'

'What are nan coincidences that a personification - 2 group immoderate - conscionable pulls up, gets disconnected a bike, and conscionable starts breaking up a sidewalk, and past 'X' magnitude of hours later personification conscionable happens to travel and autumn complete a defect that didn't beryllium prior?' 

To that, he called BS.

Shortly after, investigators pinch On Your Side reached retired to nan rule patient representing nan suspected fraudster, but did not person an answer.   

However, difficult connected nan heels of this, nan patient revenge a announcement pinch nan Bronx Supreme Court that revealed they were successful nan process of withdrawing from nan suit themselves.

The reason? Because they, too, suspected nan man was afloat of it, ABC 7 found.

The position proceeded to reappraisal tribunal documents surrounding nan lawsuit that formed much doubt, uncovering that nan 2 men caught connected camera seemingly creating nan ace were portion of nan ineligible squad of nan man who fell.

They discovered this by analyzing footage of nan brace taking measurements and pictures of nan ace aft tearing up nan sidewalk.

They did truthful by discerning that nan photos submitted to nan tribunal from nan man's ineligible squad were identical to nan ones nan 2 men would person shot, nan position said.

Meanwhile, nan landlord successful Brooklyn, whom Sloane is representing, said he is still getting bills from his spot security charging him a $10,000 deductible to analyse nan evidently phony claim.

'Doesn't person thing to do if nan declare is legit aliases if it's not,' he explained arsenic he excessively looks to disprove nan declare pinch surveillance footage showing nan man falling retired of nowhere.

'The deductible you person to salary regardless.'

Meanwhile, New York remains nan apical metropolis successful nan US for questionable gaffe and autumn claims, causing premiums to emergence for building owners who past walk nan subordinate to tenants successful nan shape of higher rent.

'It's going down to nan tenant, nan homeowner,' Mark Browne, Chair of nan Faculty astatine nan Greenberg School of Risk Management and Insurance astatine St. John's University told ABC of really nan scams are slow affecting consumers and their costs of living.  

'It's robbing from different people. It's fraudulent, it's criminal, it's wrong.'