Buoy, oh buoy.
A Staten Island Ferry skipper is demanding $1 million in damages from town after a Gilligan-like mishap within the pilot home.
Assistant Capt. Joseph Grym, 44, claims he wrenched his shoulder and again whereas making an attempt to shut a “jammed” pilot home window.
No phrase if he was crossing New York Harbor on a three-hour tour.
The million-dollar harm allegedly occurred June 6, 2022 aboard the Spirit of America, a $40 million vessel town launched in 2006.
Whereas it’d lack smoothly-sliding home windows, it’s reportedly geared up with the most recent in Marine know-how, together with radar, collision avoidance, communications and GPS navigation methods.
The seaman in search of C-notes, who lives in swanky Grymes Hill on Staten Island, claims within the Brooklyn Federal Courtroom submitting that the harm left him “internally and externally disabled.”
Grym, who made $125,437 in 2022, needs the hefty sum to assuage his “ache and struggling.”
He’s additionally in search of $50,000 for medical bills and misplaced wages.
The lawsuit was making waves within the metropolis’s smallest borough.
“Discuss Grym’s Staten Island Ferry tales,” snarked retired photojournalist Hilton Flores, 67, of Grymes Hill. “If I’m a lawyer I’d be embarrassed. This provides ambulance chasers a nasty identify.”
The president of the American Tort Reform Affiliation, or ATRA, a nonprofit that seeks “equity” within the civil lawsuit system, was additionally blown out of the water.
“Why one million {dollars}? And the way a lot is the lawyer going to be paid?” questioned ATRA’s Tiger Joyce.
Grym has been with town Division of Transportation, which runs the ferry system, since February 2005.
“The case is underneath evaluation. We’ll reply within the litigation,” metropolis Regulation Division spokesman Nicholas Paolucci instructed The Publish.
“I’ve no remark at the moment. Thanks for reaching out. God Bless you,” Grym texted to The Publish when reached for remark.
Grym’s legal professional, Bernard Friedman additionally issued a “no remark.”
The swimsuit was filed underneath the Jones Act — a federal regulation that permits maritime employees who’re injured on the job to sue their employer for damages.
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