Cable Thief's Wire Caused Woman to Trip and Get Hurt: Lawsuit

A Godley woman was injured when she tripped over the wire her neighbor was using to steal her cable television, according to a lawsuit filed in Will County court.

Rebecca Warriner, 55, sued both her neighbor, 41-year-old Jason Fields, and the neighbor’s landlord, John Allen.

On an afternoon in August 2014, Warriner walked from her home on East Mary Lane over to Fields’ place on the same street so she could talk to his girlfriend, the lawsuit said.

Unbeknownst to Warriner, Fields had run a wire between their homes so he could steal her cable television, the suit said. And on her way over to the Fields’ residence, Warriner “tripped on the wire which was hidden in the grass, causing the injuries complained of herein.”

Those injuries are supposedly “severe and permanent,” according to the lawsuit.

Warriner had previously accused Allen of attempting to run her down with his pickup truck.

“I was walking down the side of the road and John tried to run me over with his black pickup truck,” Warriner said in a November 2014 petition for a protective order.

“I managed to get out of the way,” she said.

Warriner claimed Allen was “mad” at her “because (she) tripped over (an) illegal cable wire that our neighbor had stole from us.”