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Ginger1218

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, I am starting a lawsuit, perhaps we can make it a Class Action suit. It seems that I am fat. I can only attribute that to eating pizza and them not warning me that excessive pizza eating will make me swell up.

Actually perhaps we can add more to the suit, I think we can bring Hagen Dazs, Breyers, Wise (chips) and Chips Ahoy (Nabisco) in as defendants. It seems that these naughty companies have neglected to tell us that stuffing untold amounts down our greedy little throats is going to make us very very big.

I think we can also add Coca Cola and Pepsi as well. Heck, why not sue every company on this earth for our being overweight. I could use a little bit more money to buy dinner.

Hermione69

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about Ben and Jerry's ice cream? Those little pints have 1,000+ calories a pop.

Ginger1218

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah, and they don't have neon signs saying
WARNING, eating this will make you gain 30 pounds, do they?

Let's sue them too.

Kaili

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about movie theater popcorn butter? I know many theaters switched oils, but that butter (butter flavored oil) can really do it to you.

When I worked at a theater I always got a giggle drom the people who would order the largest popcorn available (with extra butter) and a huge thing of candy, then order an extra large DIET soda.

Kristylovesbb

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I wanna sue Act11 popcorn for selling a product with heavy butter on it and while I am at it I would like to add some friends and family to the suit. Everyone says, man you have gained weight since you stopped working, implying I am lazy now. They know good and well it's that d&#n popcorn!
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I also want to sue a few undalallie, companies cause I think panties and bras should stretch more. I get tired of buying new undalallies everytime I gain 10 ummm 1 pound!

Ginger1218

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What I am really annoyed about - is the lawsuit against Macdonalds by overweight people.

How dare they eat there every day and stuff food down their throats and then blame Macdonalds for their obesity?

If they don't know that french fries and fried chicken nuggets and all the rest of that is soooo fattening, then it may be that they have other problems.

Frivolous lawsuits like this is the reason why our insurance rates are so high.

Crazydog

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree Ginger, the frivolous lawsuits make my blood boil. It all started with that ridiculous coffee lawsuit. This entire society is way too litigious. People like to find others to blame all the time.

Wasn't the election of George Bush supposed to be a step in curbing these types of lawsuits? Specifically the ones against the tobacco industry? I know someone who works for Kraft (which is owned by Philip Morris) and I believe the employees were encouraged to vote Republican.

BTW, I believe the McDonald's "fat lawsuit" was thrown out by the judge.

Ginger1218

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, but now they are attempting to bring it back for other reasons.

Kaili

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They are ridiculous...we have something we can agree on!!! (I was thinking of starting a time out thread in hot topics, but this just might do...)

People will do anything for a dollar. Didn't much of it start with the McDonald's coffee spilling lady?

Can anyone really seriously be that clueless? When your food is dripping with oil I think that's a clue. What do they want, a huge sign over everything in the world? You know, cars are at risk for crashing. Maybe we should sue car makers, cities (for having roads), etc.

I don't know if anyone in here watches Ed, but there was a pretty good example of an opportunistic person suing on there last night (and Ed lost and had to pay him $10,000). If you didn't see it, or don't watch what happened was Ed saw a car that had crashed and there were flames under the hood. They guy in the car seemed kind of out of it and had his head on his steering wheel- then the flames got bigger. Ed tried the door and it didn't open so he grabbed the guy and pulled him out the window. In the process, the guy's thumb was broken. Next thing- Ed's being sued for breaking this guy's thumb.

Kristylovesbb

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Makes my blood boil everytime I pay an insurance premium. I would be afraid to file a frivolous lawsuit against someone cause what goes around comes around and I would have no one to blame but myself.

Bbfreak

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Girl Scout cookies!!!! I ate 3 Samoas (Not 3 boxes!!) and gained 5 lbs!

Conejo

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm gonna sue Anhieser Bush for giving me a 'beer gut'. They don't have a warning on the beer cans that says if I drink too much I'll develop this mass of fat at the waistline!

Ginger1218

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Exactly Kaili, that is exactly why I started this thread. HOORAY we agree LOL :)

P.S. when a person buys coffee, do they not want it to be hot, or should there be a thermometer on it?

Whoami

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The most frivolous lawsuit I ever read about made my blood boil cause the idiot WON!

A woman leaned over to "inspect a plant" in the floral shop of a local grocery store. To do so, she had to lean in and under a hanging plant. Then, she stood straight up and banged her head on that hanging plant.

She sued the store for her injuries, claiming dizziness (the woman must have been "dizzy" to start with IMO), nausea, etc.

What was worse than her winning damages in the suit? Well, her husband was also awarded damages for "loss of companionship" due to her sickness. Translation: he couldn't "get any" cause she was too sick to....well, you know.

Stupid, stupid, stupid! The jury that is.

What I should have done was sue the newspaper I read that story in. Cause it made me sick to my stomach to read it!

Lancecrossfire

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If McDonalds needs to be sued, it's for passing off their product as actual food.

They quality they had 10 years or 15 years ago is nowhere to be found. Cheese that has little no no real cheese in it. Burger meat that taste more like salt than anything else. Lettuce that is more brown than green. Fries that have more salt and sugar on as cotaing than there is potato to coat. Pickles that don't taste like any other pickle I've ever had.

Now for the idea of suing all the other companies for creating their products in a manner where they knwo humans will get addicted! Note that the smaller items, such as M&M's, chocolate kisses, small crackers and cookies. We go back hand full after hand full. But we would never (or most wouldn't, anyway) garb a 1 pound M&M and devour it. But give someone a 1 pound bag and watch what happens! LOL

On a serious side, I've always been for people having to take responsibility for their own actions. I wasn't aware that I should ever think it's anyone's fault but my own if I go feed myself more calories than I need. Places like McD's and Burger King and just about every other place makes the nutritional information on their products available to the public.

Kaili

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I heard about one somewhere- not sure of the details but a woman tripped over a small child in a store so she sued the store for some reason or another- maybe visual field or proper aisle width.

The child she tripped over was hers.

Catfat

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Speaking of diet soda---bottled or caned diet soda uses nutrisweet for its sweetener, and is plainly labelled so. Fountain drinks use sorbitol as their sweetener, and are not labelled. Sorbitol is a powerful purgative that can cause explosive diahrrea; it is used in emergency rooms to help empty the intestines of a poisoning victim.
If you have intestinal problems after eating and drinking diet drinks in a restaurant, don't automaticall blame the food, it could be the sorbitol.
I know, I know, way too much information.

Marysafan

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Just a note on the "Ed" situation....I know Nebraska (and I would hope other states)has a "good Samaritan" law in that if you are attempting to help someone in a dire situation...and they are injured in the process...they cannot sue you.

Otherwise, folks would be less inclined to help each other.

Rissa

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw an interview with the mother of the teenage girl who was suing McDonald's. The child eats there "at LEAST once a day". AT LEAST ONCE A DAY!!!! Holy freakin' fatbath Batman.

Kaili

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow- just out of curiosity I was just looking at a website for fast food calorie and fat information (there are a tom of them).

If interested, the one I'm looking at is Fast Food Finder

All I can say is WOW! I knew some salad dressings were high fat, but I didn't realize just how high!

Arby's Thousand Island Dressing? 26 g. of fat!

A Double Whopper with Cheese? 63 g of fat, 960 calories which is the worst on the list for them. The Big Mac, by comparison is a meager 31 g. of fat.

Yikes. I'm glad I don't eat fast food- the main reason being simply that I don't eat meat. I'll stick with Subway, thanks.

Kaili

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmmm...a different site lists the double whopper with cheese as 76 g of fat. I did a search of all their listed resturants for all foods in decending order. This was the highest (17% of the recommesnded max of 65 g of fat per day).

Fast Food Fact Explorer

Denecee

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm thinking that there should at least be a law against advertising fast food, snacks or any kind of food after 9 pm!! Don't they know I'm trying to lose some extra lbs????

Moondance

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I broke up with Ben & Jerry over the Holidays...

It was a dysfunctional relationship and I am better now!

Rissa

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kaili,

Reminds me of something funny (in hindsight) that happened to us during a trip to the US a couple years back. We were in a clothing store and my oldest daughter (was about 4 at the time), tripped over her own feet basically and hit face first on the floor. Her mouth was bleeding pretty bad (she had the inside of her mouth cut open by one of her teeth) but I would be much more concerned if she had hit the BACK of her head on a hard floor. Anyway, we went to look for a clerk with kleenex and HOLY CRAP!!!! You would think I was carrying a disembowelled child.... every clerk in the store rushed us with towels, water. The manager kept trying to carry her for us and demanded that we let her drive us to a hospital. We refused but agreed to go on our own. We arrive at the hospital and the manager with a few clerks had followed us, to be joined within short order by the stores owner. Now keep in mind, this is a minor accident with basically a cut lip which is what the doctor told us {and our enterage}. The owner wanted us to sign something saying we wouldn't sue, we kept joking that we were Cdn... it wasn't our bag. :) We never did sign anything but we did receive at least 2-3 letters over the next year from the store checking on our daughter's PROGRESS!! PROGRESS?? RFLOL We were pretty angry at the circus that day, but it's funny to remember now. A bit sad too, that a store owner would be so scared about being sued that they would go to such lengths. At one point my hubby joked that we just might sue after all.... for harassment. Not one of them got the joke. LOL

Jedisan

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 02:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i heard about a girl from a reality show that was suing because she has emotional damage from aliens chasing her. (or something like that)

if anyone has a link, i would be interested in the details

Spygirl

Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 03:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did you guys hear about the lawsuit against a theater (sorry, can't remember the state)? A bunch of movie-goers are suing a movie theater for making them sit through the commercials at the beginning of the movie, saying that it wastes their time. They are demanding to be compensated or else advertise the real time of when the movie will start. Sounds good to me!

Ginger1218

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 05:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
me too Spy

Fluff

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 08:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ginger, that was FUNNY! Heheheeheheeee! Shooo....why don't we sue the world then? Heheheheeee!

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 08:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I gotta say....even tough the coffee lady still gets a lot of eye rolling today, I remember seeing a talk show with her lawyer when the whole thing happened...he showed some truly gruesome pictures of what the coffee (that was 30+ degrees hotter than it should have been) did to that woman. I would guess that none of us are all THAT concerned about spilling a cup of coffee in our laps....we've all done it, right? But check out what happens when that coffee is 30 degrees or so hotter than what you make at home:

http://www.yawp.com/ican/brew.html

Iowa Citizen Action Network

Dangerous Brew

(reprinted from the Summer/Fall ICAN NEWS for 1995)

The case of Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman who was burned by McDonald's coffee, has been widely publicized as an example of the civil justice system gone crazy. To those who have only heard part of the story, the idea of recovering any amount of damages for spilled coffee sounds outrageous. Even the jurors who awarded these damages were initially very skeptical of the entire case. The reality, however, is that the system worked.

Consider the following facts. Mrs. Liebeck received third degree burn over six percent of her body, including her thighs, buttocks, and groin area. She was hospitalized for eight days, had to undergo extensive skin grafting, was permanently scarred, faced thousands of dollars of medical bills and was disabled for more than two years.

In the ten years prior to this incident, McDonald's had received at least 700 reports of coffee burns, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $600,000. Mrs. Liebeck asked McDonald's to pay her medical bills -- they refused. After she had hired an attorney, she offered to settle her claim for $20,000, but McDonald's still refused and offered to settle the case for a mere $800, far less than the amount of her medical bills.

The issue at trial was whether McDonald's served their coffee at an unreasonably high temperature. McDonald's testified that it knew of the risk of the severe burns,
decided not to warn customers, knew its coffee was not fit for consumption at 180 degrees, and did not intend to change its policies.

The outraged jury awarded $160,000 in compensatory damages and $2.7 million in punitive damages. The punitive damage award was reduced by the trial judge to $480,000 making the total award $640,000. McDonald's knew that Mrs. Liebeck could not pay her medical bills and threatened to keep the case in appellate courts for years. With this leverage, McDonald's was then able to compel Mrs. Liebeck to settle the case for a lesser amount than the trial judge had decreed. The amount of the settlement has been sealed, upon McDonald's insistence, but it was undoubtedly far less than the original judgment -- hardly a multi-million dollar award, as has been incorrectly reported.

The McDonald's where Mrs. Liebeck purchased her coffee now serves coffee at 158 degrees rather than 180-190 degrees.

The system works.

Monkeyboy

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL kaili about your above post about you working in the movie theatre.

I would laugh in my head because i used to work at Mrs. Fields. People would get the Buy 6 get 2 free cookies special and then order a SMALL diet coke. i would think in my head "you might as well get a LARGE mr. pibb". LOL

Rissa

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 03:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't eat cookies or potatoes but I will venture a defense for the diet coke with the McExtra Meals or the dozen donuts. LOL I hate sugar!!! It's got nothing to do with diet or calories or fat..... drinking a regular coke or pepsi would literally have me heaving, I find them so syruppy sweet as to be undrinkable.

BTW, best cookbook I ever bought was the Mrs. Field's one!!! I make a big variety of her cookies every Christmas for parties and gifts and the banana bread is to DIE FOR!! :)