Mustang Sally
Wanna go for a ride?
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My proofreading job is quite boring, but occasionally I do get to read some interesting judgments. Sometimes it feels like I'm peeking into the private lives of strangers. The greedy, the vengeful, the disgusting sides of people. Sometimes I shake my head and wonder at the sheer stupidity I'm reading.
Like the McDonald's case where a girl bit into a Big Mac only to discover a rat's head, complete with eyes, teeth and whiskers. I usually hear horror stories like this and think they're myths, urban legends, but this one is real and resulted in a lawsuit. The judge referred to another case in which the exact same thing had happened. Yikes! The theory is that an employee actually put the thing there. McD's food is soooo processed that the head couldn't have survived intact otherwise, right?
Like the landscaper who broke a bone in his foot and claimed it happened on the job due to the homeowner's negligence of property. The break started a long chain of complications that resulted in not one but TWO amputations on this guy's foot. The judge decided it couldn't possibly have happened the way the guy claimed and dismissed the case, exemplifying the attitude that "SOMEONE's going to pay for this."
Then there was the man who several times got his wife drunk to the point of passing out so he could rape her and videotape it. The wife discovered the tapes and sued him. The judge gave the husband an obligatory slap on the wrist, saying something like, "yeah, that's a little bit sick, but she would have consented if she'd been conscious, so no big deal."
That one pissed me off.
Like the McDonald's case where a girl bit into a Big Mac only to discover a rat's head, complete with eyes, teeth and whiskers. I usually hear horror stories like this and think they're myths, urban legends, but this one is real and resulted in a lawsuit. The judge referred to another case in which the exact same thing had happened. Yikes! The theory is that an employee actually put the thing there. McD's food is soooo processed that the head couldn't have survived intact otherwise, right?
Like the landscaper who broke a bone in his foot and claimed it happened on the job due to the homeowner's negligence of property. The break started a long chain of complications that resulted in not one but TWO amputations on this guy's foot. The judge decided it couldn't possibly have happened the way the guy claimed and dismissed the case, exemplifying the attitude that "SOMEONE's going to pay for this."
Then there was the man who several times got his wife drunk to the point of passing out so he could rape her and videotape it. The wife discovered the tapes and sued him. The judge gave the husband an obligatory slap on the wrist, saying something like, "yeah, that's a little bit sick, but she would have consented if she'd been conscious, so no big deal."
That one pissed me off.
