In Georgia, USA a woman was awarded $161,000 after she was found only slightly liable for walking into a ladder while looking at her cell phone. The incident caused an indentation in the woman's head. She also suffered from headaches and a mild concussion as reported by Georgia legal journal The Daily Report.

Photos from a surveillance video show a worker replacing the letters on a bank sign at a grocery store in February 2011. The worker had placed orange safety cones on either side of the back of the truck, and he was in the bucket on the ladder, which was extended when the woman parked her vehicle behind the truck. She walked past the truck and underneath the ladder, then turned and went back to the car to get something, before walking back to use an ATM machine by the truck.

While the woman was at the ATM machine, the worker lowered the bucket to the sidewalk. That’s when the woman came back to her car holding her cell phone in front of her face. Phone records confirm that the woman was sending an outgoing message at the time she walked into the ladder.

To be sure, the woman was injured and taken by ambulance to the hospital where the doctor diagnosed her with post-traumatic headaches and a mild concussion. She also had a slight indentation in her head.

Despite the photo and phone record evidence, a jury found that the woman was only 8%  liable for her injuries. As such, she was awarded $161,000, or 92% of a $175,000 verdict.

Even the woman’s own attorney said “he had no idea where the 8% figure came from.”  He even admitted that the defense made a “common sense” argument that the woman “wasn’t paying attention.”  Despite her own attorney’s apparent doubts about her case, the woman walked away $161,000 richer.

C’MON MAN!!