NYC Chick Suing MTA Because Ads For Dexter Scared Her So Bad She Fell And Broke Her Ankle

MIDTOWN — She claims she’s a real-life victim of Showtime’s serial-killer drama “Dexter.” A woman using a Grand Central Terminal stairwell fell and broke her ankle last year because a spooky advertisement for the series startled her, a new lawsuit charges. Ajanaffy Njewadda and her husband, a former Gambian ambassador, are suing the MTA and the cable network, accusing them of placing the ad in a dangerous spot for pedestrians. “Our contention is that the ad shouldn’t have been there,” the couple’s lawyer, Rehan Nazrali, told DNAinfo New York. “The combined nature of the ad along with its placement poses a hazard to people on the steps.” The poster’s closeup of “Dexter” star Michael C. Hall with cellophane covering his face was “shocking and menacing,” the lawsuit says. Hall played a mild-mannered crime lab technician for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer and uses the plastic wrap on his victims. The poster promoting the eighth and final season of the show covered the side of every step of a stairwell that led to the shuttle train at Grand Central. It was only viewable to pedestrians ascending the stairwell.  Njewadda, who has a home in the Concourse section of the Bronx and in Gambia, broke her ankle and suffered a concussion. She also had to see a psychiatrist — like Dexter does in the show’s eighth season. “She was having nightmares about it,” Nazrali said. The lawyer said that before he filed the lawsuit, he contacted Showtime about a settlement. But the network’s insurer refused to make a deal, Nazrali said, claiming there was nothing wrong with the sign because New Yorkers don’t scare easily.

Listen any other show and I’m calling this chick an asshole. But that 8th season of Dexter was so fucking awful I can’t blame her. Seeing that stupid fucking face after like 10 goddam years of the show slowly spiraling down the toilet is absolutely “shocking and menacing.” Just a huge reminder how you’ve been wasting the past 3 or 4 years of your life hoping this godforsaken show gets as good as it once was in season 1 or 4. I wouldn’t go blaming the MTA and I wouldnt say the ads scared you. I’d sue Showtime and I’d say those ads reminded me just how badly their writers fucked with me every Sunday night until that fucking lumberjack scene.