Astros Fan Suing For $1 Million Claiming Mascot Broke Her Finger With T-Shirt Cannon

Jennifer Harughty from Montgomery County is suing the Houston Astros for more than $1 million claiming she broke her finger at a game in July 2018 when the team’s mascot, Orbit, fired a T-shirt into the stands...

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"The kids were excited again, and he shot the T-shirt, and it was coming right at me. I was like, 'Oh, my gosh! I’m finally getting the T-shirt," Harughty said.

Orbit is accused of using a “bazooka style T-shirt cannon” to rapidly fire multiple shirts into the crowd during the game's seventh inning.

“Orbit took aim and fired a T-shirt into the stands where Harughty and her family sat. The T-shirt struck her left index finger head-on and with so much force Harughty’s finger fractured,” the lawsuit stated.

The woman went to the emergency room after the game where she was told she would need surgery. She later underwent two operations to fix the fracture.

"So whenever it hit here, the pressure and the force of the T-shirt, this knuckle couldn’t withstand so it just shattered once it hit," Harughty said. "Come to find out, it was shattered. We were thinking, oh, OK, it’s broke but no big deal. It’s a finger. We’ll put a cast on it. Four weeks, you’ll be fine."

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