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07/06/2005 11:47:29 PM · #1 |
i was reading the news today and i find it annoying that people would blame everything and anything except themself when things dont go the way they wanted it.
//channels.netscape.com/ns/homerealestate/feature.jsp?story=worstfastfoods&floc=HR-1_T
This is about the fast food industry and it just made me recall the case where someone sued a fastfood chain for him being obese. I think its utter crap. So when will it before I can sue God for creating idiots that somehow made my life miserable? |
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07/06/2005 11:58:04 PM · #2 |
The issue will be whether the corporation engaged in fraud with this person's obesity as a result.
For example, if your favorite burger place posts a sign saying that their standard burger-n-fries special has 26 grams of fat, and it turns out on independent analysis that it is really 58 grams of fat, you'd have every right to sue them for making you obese.
If their advertising encourages you to eat their meal every day, when such a plan would clearly violate USDA healthy nutrition guldelines, you might have a case against them.
People should be held reponsible for their own actions, but only if those decisions are based on reasonably accurate and unobfuscated information.
Message edited by author 2005-07-06 23:58:35. |
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07/07/2005 12:06:54 AM · #3 |
I don't know if I can agree with you completely, GeneralE. I do, in principle; fraud is fraud. But to blame your obesity on fast food is nuts, even if the packaging is marked wrong.
Does anyone seriously go to Burger King (or the like), get a triple cheeseburger with fries (supersize that) with a DIET Coke, read the label and say "Oh, cool, only 26 grams of fat, I can live on these things"?
At what point does one look at oneself in the mirror and say "Damn, my a$$ is getting fat!! Maybe I should lay off the cheeseburgers"?
Message edited by author 2005-07-07 00:07:32. |
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07/07/2005 12:12:19 AM · #4 |
I don't know if their data (fast food joints) is faulty. But even if you take the most conservative numbers that they give you on their websites, its just obscene who much fat and calories are in most meals.
That being said, many people don't really have to worry about the cholesterol, the blood pressure and the blood sugar...I think alot of it is hereditary.
I have to look at everything, my G/F can eat what ever she wants. |
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07/07/2005 12:13:09 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
If their advertising encourages you to eat their meal every day, when such a plan would clearly violate USDA healthy nutrition guldelines, you might have a case against them.
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Advertising made me buy things I couldn't afford with money I didn't have. I'm suing. |
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07/07/2005 12:17:46 AM · #6 |
... and DPC got me addicted to photography and the update button. I now suffer great pain... (mostly due to my poor photographs) and am sleep deprived and...on and on.......I'm suing.... as a matter of fact I might be able to initiate a class action suit......heheheehe
Ray |
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07/07/2005 12:57:39 AM · #7 |
i wanna sue nokia for making me miss an important call and thus failed to seal a 2 million dollar contract.
for a case study:
Nokia claims my phone model and battery combination would have at least 3 hours of talktime, but I went flat at 2 hours after charging, so can i sue them?
in all aspect, i feel its absurb and people are just trying to make money out from loopholes in the law system. the law n system is meant to protect the average people is now being made into a money making scheme. its sad.
have anyone read about the lawsuit from some crap who claims the NASA blowing a crater on the asteroid has spoilt his horoscope (or his kitchen sink)? while i'm not saying i agree with NASA's action or anything, i felt that the lawsuit was utter crap, and clearly an attempt to get either fame or money. sick
Message edited by author 2005-07-07 01:07:06. |
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07/07/2005 01:00:41 AM · #8 |
| i'm suing nikon 'cause none of my pictures look like the ones in the brochure. |
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07/07/2005 01:01:16 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by muckpond:
i'm suing nikon 'cause none of my pictures look like the ones in the brochure. |
damn good one, lol
and also, i always find it damn funny to read labels on the box of my clothes iron (example) that says "please do not use iron to cook food", i mean, if you are idiotic enough to do that, you really shouldnt be using an iron, lol
Message edited by author 2005-07-07 01:03:41. |
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07/07/2005 01:23:34 AM · #10 |
After reading that article it brought my favorite bumper sticker to mind. Seen it on the back of a truck here.
Guns create criminals like spoons create people of size.
Ok it wasn't exactly that way I was just being politically correct. Didn't want to get flamed like the last time when I refered to people elder than myself in the wrong manner.
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07/07/2005 01:25:09 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by mk:
Advertising made me buy things I couldn't afford with money I didn't have. I'm suing. |
That's the good ol' American litigious spirit! After all, if we don't keep all those lawyers employed, they might start suing us! |
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07/07/2005 02:37:07 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
That's the good ol' American litigious spirit! After all, if we don't keep all those lawyers employed, they might start suing us! |
OMFG that is scary! I better start thinking who I can sue today! |
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07/07/2005 07:53:21 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by shadow:
damn good one, lol
and also, i always find it damn funny to read labels on the box of my clothes iron (example) that says "please do not use iron to cook food", i mean, if you are idiotic enough to do that, you really shouldnt be using an iron, lol |
*laughs* Unfortunately, my HDD on my main computer went down, otherwise I would love to post image that I took about 6 months ago.
I kid you not, went to laudromat to wash quilts in big machines, where I came upon signs posted to them.
Do not put people in these machines!
Doesn't it just make you wonder why they feel there is need to post that?! ;-)
Thanks for bringing a small laugh on this very sad day.
-Christine |
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07/07/2005 08:01:47 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by shadow:
i always find it damn funny to read labels on the box of my clothes iron (example) that says "please do not use iron to cook food", i mean, if you are idiotic enough to do that, you really shouldnt be using an iron, lol |
You callin' me an idiot? Have you never been a student? |
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07/07/2005 08:06:29 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by shadow:
i wanna sue nokia for making me miss an important call and thus failed to seal a 2 million dollar contract.
for a case study:
Nokia claims my phone model and battery combination would have at least 3 hours of talktime, but I went flat at 2 hours after charging, so can i sue them?
in all aspect, i feel its absurb and people are just trying to make money out from loopholes in the law system. the law n system is meant to protect the average people is now being made into a money making scheme. its sad.
have anyone read about the lawsuit from some crap who claims the NASA blowing a crater on the asteroid has spoilt his horoscope (or his kitchen sink)? while i'm not saying i agree with NASA's action or anything, i felt that the lawsuit was utter crap, and clearly an attempt to get either fame or money. sick |
The law is not an utter ass: there are some restrictions (in the UK at least) on what you can recover, and there has been a couple of centuries' legal debate on it (law of causation) and philosophically a few millennia's debate. The gist is that you can only recover for losses for the type of loss you describe if they are reasonably foreseeable to the negligent party.
As for that asteroid - I am collecting names from anyone who can give me details of something bad that has happened to them since that day for a group action... the fees alone would make me rich! |
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07/07/2005 08:21:47 PM · #16 |
| This reminds me....On the news last night they said a lady is suing NASA for shooting the probe or whatever into the comet. She says it through off her horoscope and wants $300 million. Did anyone else see this? |
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07/07/2005 08:28:51 PM · #17 |
why wouldnt the creator of the font be responsable for the ad that mislead a person, what if the misleading statement was bold yellow, wouldnt the color yellow be as much to blame?
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07/07/2005 08:48:06 PM · #18 |
Perhaps you should watch Supersize Me. It's a fascinating documentary about fast food in general and McDonald's in particular.
The official website is a little hard on the eyes (damned bright colors!), but I urge you to visit.
supersizeme.com
The documentary has got to be the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. You've got to watch it.
Sara
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07/07/2005 09:08:35 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by rex:
This reminds me....On the news last night they said a lady is suing NASA for shooting the probe or whatever into the comet. She says it through off her horoscope and wants $300 million. Did anyone else see this? |
Yes this is the one I was talking about (tho memory usually fails me on the details, lol) I find it absurd to be suing on this sort of things :p |
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