Sueing Fast Food chains...

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

OMG!

This is getting sillier and sillier. Our friends across the sea (Americans) have once again enlightened our hearts and minds with their serious and friendly manners in their own country. Now the fatties are suing the fast food chains due to "Unhealthy food servings".

Anyway, seeing the IQ oversea is dropping drastically, im getting worried a bit that one day, we will actually see a whole continent filled with Bush-IQ-level.

D-Day any1?

http://www.realslimmers.com/Content.go?id=6121

[Scorpio 0]

pretty dome stupid people....i mean how can anybody not know that fast food is bad for you? And they are sueing the companies!

[Longinius 1]

People sued cigarette companies to. I don't think its strictly a matter of Americans being stupid. I think it has more to do with a stupid legal system that allows you to sue others because you yourself is ignorant / stupid / lazy / greedy / clumbsy. And not only can you sue, you can also get pretty rich of off it.

[LauryThorn 0]

This is my favourite:

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"I always thought it was good for you. I never thought there was anything wrong with it," he said.

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'He' is a 57-year-old maintenance supervisor, 125 kg, an 'it' is fast food.

[CosmicCastaway 0]

It's mostly down to a greedy/stupid/ignorant (delete as appropriate) mind-set as Longinius has already pointed out. Some people will always look for ways to take advantage of a situation, hence the massive number of those stupid ads for insurance companies promising compensation for someones own stupid actions. Salon.com recently had an article relating to a similar situation:

http://www.salon.com/tech/letters/2002/05/31/fat_asses/

Quite an interesting read. It's not generally just the Americans, although they tend to start a trend, and the rest of the world soon follows suite. An ignorant greedy ass, is still an ignorant greedy ass no matter where they live.  

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

If that ever happend in Denmark, the judge would be laughing his arse off... I promise. It wouldnt even end up in the media... People would just think that its too stupid reading to waste their time on it... But thats just here...

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

Flammatory post title edited.

FIRST ONE TO START FLAMING IN HERE WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED AND WILL BURN IN HELL

I'm not kidding either

So, behave and be civil

[Placebo 29]

Can I sue my groin for a wrist injury?

[pathfinder 0]

Yep ,we got some stupid peeps over here. The same kinda people that don't know/ how to read a voting ballot/guns kill/hot coffee/cigarettes kill ,and try to sue because of their own ignorance.

They mostly vote Democrat.........now you know my fears!

Now where is that cow ,I'm feeling a might peckish....(licks lips and get the knife & fork ready)

[second_draw 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ex-RoNiN @ July 26 2002,13:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Flammatory post title edited.

FIRST ONE TO START FLAMING IN HERE WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED AND WILL BURN IN HELL

I'm not kidding either

So, behave and be civil <span id='postcolor'>

Would you mind being a little more subtle with you appraoch such as </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><cough> FIRST ONE TO START FLAMING IN HERE WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED AND WILL BURN IN HELL <cough> <span id='postcolor'> or being not so agressive? Anyway there ain't too much or at all flaming each other here. Just a thought

[CosmicCastaway 0]

I wish to sue the moderators for the emotional distress caused by that last remark, and loss of earnings for the time it took to type this reply.

[Placebo 29]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (second_draw @ July 26 2002,12:39)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><span id='postcolor'>

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Would you mind being a little more subtle with you appraoch

such as </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><cough> FIRST ONE TO START FLAMING IN HERE WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED AND WILL BURN IN HELL <cough> <span id='postcolor'> or being not so agressive? <span id='postcolor'>

He ended with a smiley, be grateful for that

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Anyway there ain't too much or at all flaming each other here. <span id='postcolor'>

Yet.

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

Lol, the thread werent meant to be a flame towards America or its citizents. But you gotta admit that the... No wait, im afraid to say it.

[Major Fubar 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ex-RoNiN @ July 26 2002,13:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Flammatory post title edited.

FIRST ONE TO START FLAMING IN HERE WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED AND WILL BURN IN HELL

I'm not kidding either

So, behave and be civil <span id='postcolor'>

Kidding

I can't add anything to this post...sueing gone crazy...

[EveronVetsAgainstTheWar 1]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Espectro @ July 26 2002,06:35)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">OMG!

This is getting sillier and sillier. Our friends across the sea (Americans) have once again enlightened our hearts and minds with their serious and friendly manners in their own country. Now the fatties are suing the fast food chains due to "Unhealthy food servings".

Anyway, seeing the IQ oversea is dropping drastically, im getting worried a bit that one day, we will actually see a whole continent filled with Bush-IQ-level.

D-Day any1?<span id='postcolor'>

How is that NOT meant to flame Americans?

[Paratrooper 0]

I remember reading about a woman who got a microwave (when they were pretty new things), she took her dog for a walk but it rained. The dog was small, so she thought that it would be a good idea to dry him off in her new fangled microwave. She sued the makers for the dogs death, because it didn't say anywhere that it would kill animals, she won millions of dollars! Only in America, as they say. Now all products are plastered with disclaimers.

[CosmicCastaway 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Paratrooper @ July 26 2002,16:39)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I remember reading about a woman who got a microwave (when they were pretty new things), she  took her dog for a walk but it rained. The dog was small, so she thought that it would be a good idea to dry him off in her new fangled microwave. She sued the makers for the dogs death, because it didn't say anywhere that it would kill animals, she won millions of dollars! Only in America, as they say. Now all products are plastered with disclaimers.<span id='postcolor'>

They're pretty bad news for Gremlins too if I remember rightly. Remember kids, Gremlins and Microwaves don't mix.  

[MJM0771 0]

I think this goes back a few years ago when someone sued McDonalds because they burned their mouth while drink a fresh cup of coffee. DUH!

Since then they printed a warning statement on the cup.

"WARNING: Hot coffee"

Reminds me of Homer Simpson.

SPORTSCASTER: "If you have Football fever, There's only one cure, take two tickets and go out and see the game tomorrow night! Warning: tickets should not be taken internally.:

HOMER: "See, because of me, now they have a warning."

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

Now I can see some (repeat SOME) cases where people suing the tobacco companies because a family member died of cancer. Thats a little different.

There's nothing chemically addictive about food. I heard on the radio that one guy reported that they're commercials were too entising. Gimme a break!

Sounds like to me that there are more and more people out there just looking for an excuse (any excuse) for a hand out. Thats pretty damn sad....

MJM

[KingBeast 0]

My girlfriends dad told me an interesting story abotu that whole suing MacDonalds over the hot coffee thing.

Apparently it was down to the guys smart lawyer, because he did some digging around and found out that at the same MacDonalds something like 12 other people, possibly staff were reported to have burned themselves from the coffee. So that gave a pretty good case and the courts wanted to make an example of MacDonalds anyway.

He also told me that the way they figured out how much the guy would get from the case was that they calculated the earnings in one day for cups of coffee sold in MacDonalds across the world.

Whether thats all true or not I dont know, but it certainly sounds about right

[Harnu 0]

Ya, one old lady spilled coffee on her and sued for it being too hot.

And will some of you people stop thinking that all Americans are idiots? Cause all of us aren't. It's these kinds of idiots that sue becuase of fat food that gives us a bad name I vote to deport these idiots and make them give some other country a bad name.

[CosmicCastaway 0]

I think you'll find other countries have their own supply of idiots, so you would have a hard time exporting them.

You could always put them all in microwaves, although I hear they have warning stickers on them nowadays.

[ralphwiggum 6]

this lawsuit will not go through. tobacco lawsuit succeeded since there were known to be harmful compositions in cigarrettes. and nicotine was proven to be addictive.

but unless it can be proven that the fastfood chains are putting in chemicals that cause this to be addictive, the suit will falter.

[KingBeast 0]

Hmm someone at work said the case was that the fast food places had implied that the food was healthy or not unhealthy, and after believing this and chowing down on the greasy food, the so called victims were told by their doctors that the food was unhealthy?

[Benze 0]

The "Coffee" lawsuit was a very good case.

http://pages.prodigy.net/gaglenn/lawoffice/coffee/truth.html

McDonalds had their coffee at a temputure which could sear right through, ie, completely destroy all the skin, within two seconds. She suffered 3rd degree burns on 6% of her body.

There were around 700 other complaints about the heat of the coffee, but McDonalds refused to do ANYTHING about it.

[Guest]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Benze @ July 26 2002,18:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">There were around 700 other complaints about the heat of the coffee, but McDonalds refused to do ANYTHING about it.<span id='postcolor'>

There would have been 7000 other complaint if the coffee was too cold