Former thin man sues fast food.....

[dickE]

...come on!

If there was ever a place where an automatic, manditory counter suit should be filed against this now-fat man AND HIS AMBULANCE-CHASING LAWYER, it's right here!

If the fat-man and his contingency lawyer fail to make their case, the Judge immediately drops the gavel......and, with the same jury; same evidence; same judge tries the case in reverse........for the exact same amount of compensation as asked for initially.

If the case is good, this won't hurt anybody.........but it'll stop the pure prospecting currently going on in court rooms.

 

[Monazwx]

Can't believe this case was actually filed.
I hope this madness ends as quickly as it began.

 

[JerseyBoy]

Hot coffee anyone?

 

[Bindii]

Hot coffee anyone?

Would you like fries with that?

 

[JerseyBoy]

Would you like fries with that?

only if they're cooked in fresh animal fat. There's a PETA peeking in the window and I love to taunt

 

[PumpkinSmasher]

Did somebody say lawsuit? Can I have my payment super-sized?

 

[islandman]

While he's at it, why not sue god for creating the sun which gives off harmful UV rays and will invariably give him skin cancer?


It's called "SELF CONTROL". Alternatively, lets put in place rules and regulations that punish frivolous lawsuits with castration!

Who'se with me?!

...come on!

If there was ever a place where an automatic, manditory counter suit should be filed against this now-fat man AND HIS AMBULANCE-CHASING LAWYER, it's right here!

If the fat-man and his contingency lawyer fail to make their case, the Judge immediately drops the gavel......and, with the same jury; same evidence; same judge tries the case in reverse........for the exact same amount of compensation as asked for initially.

If the case is good, this won't hurt anybody.........but it'll stop the pure prospecting currently going on in court rooms.

 

[SimGuy]

Think I'll sure the candy and chocolate makers for the zits I had during my teen years.

 

[dickE]

Re: Re: Former thin man sues fast food.....

While he's at it, why not sue god for creating the sun which gives off harmful UV rays and will invariably give him skin cancer?


It's called "SELF CONTROL". Alternatively, lets put in place rules and regulations that punish frivolous lawsuits with castration!

Who'se with me?!

or.........he could sue his parents for making him stupid.

 

[riff]

Eat too much red beans and rice and you could sue farmers.

 

[islandman]

Re: Re: Re: Former thin man sues fast food.....

or.........he could sue his parents for making him stupid.

Doubtful that even this level of stupidity could be excused by genetics.

 

[Siren]

 

[tassie]

I don't need self control, it wasnt my fault anyway. i THOUGHT they were healthy! I thought that those thin chips fried in animal fat and smothered in salt were ok! I knew that a sauce with mystery ingredients, half a slice of wilted lettuce and a testicle burger were fine!

they MADE me eat it!

jeez. we're getting that way on this side of the atlantic too.

 

[Ishmael]

I for one am sick of the lawyer bashing that goes on here daily.

I am going to pick a profession a day and deingrate it and then people who work at it based on generalitites of a few.

With your penchant for rhetoric, that should be amusing. I can't wait.

Ishmael

 

[Siren]

 

[islandman]

I don't need self control, it wasnt my fault anyway. i THOUGHT they were healthy! I thought that those thin chips fried in animal fat and smothered in salt were ok! I knew that a sauce with mystery ingredients, half a slice of wilted lettuce and a testicle burger were fine!

they MADE me eat it!

jeez. we're getting that way on this side of the atlantic too.

LOL

 

[islandman]

and the anger and wrath spewed toward us from people from lit is really getting to levels of intolerance

I doubt the anger and wrath is spewing against you personally. Rather it is against those members of your profession who have less than three braincells to rub together.

I doubt an individual can file such a suit without an equally incompetent lawyer..................

 

[Ishmael]

I am serious Ishmael, I am really sick and tired of this.


and the anger and wrath spewed toward us from people from lit is really getting to levels of intolerance

A case of getting painted with the same brush. But I can understand your feelings.

A close friend of mine is an atty. in N.M. He specializes in business law, but because of his Spanish heritage is called in for civil rights cases too. He is currently suing the city of Alb. for the police shooting of a 70 year old man. This is a sorry story and thank God there are people like my friend that will take up the case for these people.

But the tort guys are going overboard and that does not bode well for the profession in the eyes of the public.

You can either rant about it. Help clean up the profession. Or like my bud, El Baron, just laugh it off and collect lawyer jokes. (He shares the jokes with me. Some of them are GREAT. But I won't inflict them on you today. )

Ishmael

 

[Siren]

 

[naudiz]

I'm not a lawyer. I don't even play one on TV, but at the risk of sounding unpopular here, I think we should put it into perspective and cut the lawyers a break.

A lawyer's job is to present the best case possible for his or her client. That is how a lawyer earns a living. Sure, there are some lawyers who encourage frivolous litigation for the sake of padding their bank accounts, but using the lack of integrity of a few to persecute the whole is unfair.

If the dim bulb who decided to sue fast food for his weight problem hadn't sought out the services of a lawyer (which he is entitled to do by the laws of the US), then there wouldn't be a case in the first place.

I thought about this a few days ago, how I could probably sue Pepsi Co. for what happened recently (long story short, I can't have sugar and accidentally downed a two liter bottle of regular Pepsi instead of diet -- go me!) because the company recently changed the label on the diet bottles to blue -- they look a lot like the regular bottles now, and they're easy to confuse. I could probably sue for pain and suffering (of which there has been plenty) and I might even win. Am I going to do it? Hell no. If a thirty year old woman can't read a fucking label, that's evolution in action. Besides, all that money wouldn't be worth being known forever more as 'that stupid Pepsi girl.'

Not everyone has that sense of integrity (or mortified embarrassment), so you get guys like this suing because he can't lay off the Big Macs. I don't know the guy, but based on the evidence presented to me, he's a moron. But look at our society. Isn't it easier to blame someone else for our problems? Isn't it pretty much encouraged to do so? It's so much better on the ego to point the finger somewhere else.

Yeah, it's ridiculous, but let's not assume the guy's lawyer is an ambulance chasing money-grubber. I've known plenty of lawyers who think the suits their presenting are ridiculous, but everyone in this country is entitled to legal representation, and someone has to do it.

 

[Tamlee]

Quote: But look at our society. Isn't it easier to blame someone else for our problems? Isn't it pretty much encouraged to do so? It's so much better on the ego to point the finger somewhere else.

This is an incredibly good point. I've been smoking for a while now, and at certain points I've rationalized it by saying that the tobacco companies make people get and stay addicted. At the moment, I think it is a matter of self-control. The way you feel when you smoke is bad. The way you feel when you overeat is bad. Three Big Macs and two buckets of supersized fries are going to make you feel sick. Gluttony may not be evil, but it is stupid. Perhaps people should pay more attention to how what they're doing makes them feel, rather than waking up one day and blaming someone else for their poor condition?

 

[Bidin~Time]

Unfortunately, people today refuse to take responsibility for their actions when it has a negative effect on them personally. Yet they are all too willing to accept the praise (responsibility) when their actions have a positive effect. Why do they ignore the fact that any choice we make, good or bad, will have repercussions?

If you eat like a horse, sooner or later you're going to look like one!

For some odd reason I'm reminded of Flip Wilson: "The Devil made me do it!"

 

[Marxist]

Quote: But look at our society. Isn't it easier to blame someone else for our problems? Isn't it pretty much encouraged to do so? It's so much better on the ego to point the finger somewhere else.

This is an incredibly good point. I've been smoking for a while now, and at certain points I've rationalized it by saying that the tobacco companies make people get and stay addicted. At the moment, I think it is a matter of self-control. The way you feel when you smoke is bad. The way you feel when you overeat is bad. Three Big Macs and two buckets of supersized fries are going to make you feel sick. Gluttony may not be evil, but it is stupid. Perhaps people should pay more attention to how what they're doing makes them feel, rather than waking up one day and blaming someone else for their poor condition?

Tobacco is not fast food. Pharmacologically nor metaphorically nor nutritionally, they ain't in the same stadium.

Tobacco is nothing more than a drug (according to their own scientists), the other is fat-laden food that satisfies human desires for taste (fat, salty, sweet).