Kids Suing McDonalds for making them fat.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2002-11-26 09:48pm

http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/co ... 21,00.html
What is the world coming to?!? This is almost absurd as the one where a woman sued Burger King and won, for not labling their coffee as hot.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-11-26 10:00pm

I'm going to quote myself from another thread:

Canada has four basic bulwarks against lawsuit abuse:
Loser pays. In fact, the plaintiff may even be forced to provide a security deposit up-front in order to cover the defendant's legal costs if he should lose and be unable or unwilling to pay up.

Much more restrictive discovery rules. In essence, you can't just demand piles of evidence from everyone remotely involved in the case; you must show relevance first.

Lawsuits are normally evaluated by judges, not lay juries. This greatly reduces the effect of bias, courtroom theatrics, and monetary inflation of awarded damages.

Damage caps; judges routinely limit damages. Punitive damage awards are infrequent and far smaller, with no automatic tripling as we see in certain types of American lawsuit. Most pain and suffering lawsuits cap out at $50,000 or less, with multi-million dollar awards being essentially unheard-of.
Fixing the American lawsuit lottery is not just a matter of "loser pays"; there are many other serious issues that must be examined, particularly the use of jury trials. America is by far the most litigious nation in the world, and it is a direct result of your completely fucked-up laws.

Applies here too. America is the land of lawsuits because it's almost impossible to recover legal costs from a litigious plaintiff, trials are by jury, discovery procedures are a joke, punitive damages are out of control, and damage awards in general are out of control. That's why you see this bullshit.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-26 10:01pm

Totally bullshit. They ate the food and the sue Mcdonald's for making them fat? That's like suing your wife for making you raise a child.

Don't want it, then don't do it! Don't start nothing, won't BE nothing!

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-26 10:04pm

Exonerate wrote: What is the world coming to?!? This is almost absurd as the one where a woman sued Burger King and won, for not labling their coffee as hot.

She sued McD's. And there is an extremely overweight man trying to sue McD's, BK, KFC and Wendy's for the same reason. People will do anything for a buck in the US.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-26 10:06pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:
Exonerate wrote: What is the world coming to?!? This is almost absurd as the one where a woman sued Burger King and won, for not labling their coffee as hot.
She sued McD's. And there is an extremely overweight man trying to sue McD's, BK, KFC and Wendy's for the same reason. People will do anything for a buck in the US.

I should go to America. I can make a living without a single day's work.

Goddamn parasites.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-11-26 10:07pm

It's truly ridiculous. The girl involved in this lawsuit is something like 14 and weighs in at about 400 pounds (about 180 kilos). I'm sorry, but no one just wakes up one day and finds that they weigh that much. It's a slow, gradual process, and this girl clearly could have stopped eating at McDonalds any time she wanted to to help herself. She is personally accountable for not getting exercise during that time, for not recognizing that she needed to change her dietary habits and her lifestyle, and for not reading the signs that were in the McDonalds revealing the nutritional information of the food she was eating. Her parents need to be responsible for allowing her to be the way that she is, and it's not McDonald's fault for serving the food that she chose to buy and eat.

XPViking · Post by **XPViking** » 2002-11-26 10:21pm

I think a quote from the article sums it up best:

"The understanding and comprehension of what hamburgers and french fries do has been with us for a long, long time," Mr Lerman said.

XPViking

data_link · Post by **data_link** » 2002-11-26 10:34pm

Wow. What's really sad about this is that if someone tried to sue the U.S. Government for making them stupid (pubic skeuling), they'd get laughed out of court, even though that case is far more valid than the McDonalds one.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-26 10:38pm

data_link wrote:Wow. What's really sad about this is that if someone tried to sue the U.S. Government for making them stupid (pubic skeuling), they'd get laughed out of court, even though that case is far more valid than the McDonalds one.

They're so damn stupid next they're probably going to try to sue their parents.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-11-26 10:39pm

neoolong wrote:
data_link wrote:Wow. What's really sad about this is that if someone tried to sue the U.S. Government for making them stupid (pubic skeuling), they'd get laughed out of court, even though that case is far more valid than the McDonalds one.
They're so damn stupid next they're probably going to try to sue their parents.

It's happened before, you know.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2002-11-26 10:41pm

I remember a kids suing the school for confiscating his pokemon cards...

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-26 10:41pm

Master of Ossus wrote:
neoolong wrote: They're so damn stupid next they're probably going to try to sue their parents.
It's happened before, you know.

Yep, they even made a movie about it.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2002-11-26 10:41pm

Evil Sadistic Bastard, would you please shorten your sig?

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-26 10:46pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:
Master of Ossus wrote:
neoolong wrote: They're so damn stupid next they're probably going to try to sue their parents.
It's happened before, you know.
Yep, they even made a movie about it.

Alright, now that just makes me depressed about the future of humanity. Even more so than before, as impossible as that may have seemed.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-26 10:48pm

Howedar wrote:Evil Sadistic Bastard, would you please shorten your sig?

It is done.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-26 10:50pm

neoolong wrote:
Kelly Antilles wrote: Yep, they even made a movie about it.
Alright, now that just makes me depressed about the future of humanity. Even more so than before, as impossible as that may have seemed.

The movie is well over 20 years old. It had Drew Barymore in it. The title... Irreconsilable DIfferences.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-26 10:50pm

neoolong wrote:
data_link wrote:Wow. What's really sad about this is that if someone tried to sue the U.S. Government for making them stupid (pubic skeuling), they'd get laughed out of court, even though that case is far more valid than the McDonalds one.
They're so damn stupid next they're probably going to try to sue their parents.

" I'm suing my mom who gave twenty years of her life to raise my sorry ass because she didn't buy me tickets to AoTC and it ruined my life!!!"

Is it me, or do people whine a lot more nowadays?

C.S.Strowbridge · Post by **C.S.Strowbridge** » 2002-11-26 10:54pm

Darth Wong wrote:I'm going to quote myself from another thread:
Canada has four basic bulwarks against lawsuit abuse:
Loser pays. In fact, the plaintiff may even be forced to provide a security deposit up-front in order to cover the defendant's legal costs if he should lose and be unable or unwilling to pay up.

Much more restrictive discovery rules. In essence, you can't just demand piles of evidence from everyone remotely involved in the case; you must show relevance first.

Lawsuits are normally evaluated by judges, not lay juries. This greatly reduces the effect of bias, courtroom theatrics, and monetary inflation of awarded damages.

Damage caps; judges routinely limit damages. Punitive damage awards are infrequent and far smaller, with no automatic tripling as we see in certain types of American lawsuit. Most pain and suffering lawsuits cap out at $50,000 or less, with multi-million dollar awards being essentially unheard-of.
Fixing the American lawsuit lottery is not just a matter of "loser pays"; there are many other serious issues that must be examined, particularly the use of jury trials. America is by far the most litigious nation in the world, and it is a direct result of your completely fucked-up laws.
Applies here too. America is the land of lawsuits because it's almost impossible to recover legal costs from a litigious plaintiff, trials are by jury, discovery procedures are a joke, punitive damages are out of control, and damage awards in general are out of control. That's why you see this
bullshit.

I will make one small change when I become Supreme Ruler of Earth.

Punitive damages will be unlimited, but they won't go to the defendent. They will be used to fix the problem created to reduce the chances of this happening in the future.

BTW, the McDonalds in France are airing ads which state, 'There's no need to abuse fast food, or eat at McDonalds more than once a week.' You can imagine the US McDonald's reaction to that.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-26 10:56pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:
neoolong wrote:
Kelly Antilles wrote: Yep, they even made a movie about it.
Alright, now that just makes me depressed about the future of humanity. Even more so than before, as impossible as that may have seemed.
The movie is well over 20 years old. It had Drew Barymore in it. The title... Irreconsilable DIfferences.

Somehow, that just depresses me more.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2002-11-26 11:06pm

Master of Ossus wrote:It's truly ridiculous. The girl involved in this lawsuit is something like 14 and weighs in at about 400 pounds (about 180 kilos). I'm sorry, but no one just wakes up one day and finds that they weigh that much. It's a slow, gradual process, and this girl clearly could have stopped eating at McDonalds any time she wanted to to help herself. She is personally accountable for not getting exercise during that time, for not recognizing that she needed to change her dietary habits and her lifestyle, and for not reading the signs that were in the McDonalds revealing the nutritional information of the food she was eating. Her parents need to be responsible for allowing her to be the way that she is, and it's not McDonald's fault for serving the food that she chose to buy and eat.

Lack of fucking responsibility and self-esteem. Also lazy. I still have no pity and almost no mercy for these whinny fucks.

Sonnenburg · Post by **Sonnenburg** » 2002-11-26 11:07pm

You know, every time McDonalds gets sued, I get this Weird Mental Image (TM) of the lawyer in court. He gets up for the opening statement, smooths down his suit, walks confidently over to the jury box as he raises his head. He takes a deep breath and delivers his opening argument:

"Rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble"
(at this point he gestures angrily at the plaintiff)
"Rubble rubble rubble rubble..."

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2002-11-26 11:13pm

Sonnenburg wrote:You know, every time McDonalds gets sued, I get this Weird Mental Image (TM) of the lawyer in court. He gets up for the opening statement, smooths down his suit, walks confidently over to the jury box as he raises his head. He takes a deep breath and delivers his opening argument:

"Rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble"
(at this point he gestures angrily at the plaintiff)
"Rubble rubble rubble rubble..."

Bwuhahahahahahaha!!!

And with mayor Mccheese as the judge...

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2002-11-26 11:14pm

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...whew

It's nice to see everytime I believe I have the limits of someone being stupid and ignorant...someone always shows me there's one who'll go further...suing McDonald's being fat.

Maybe I should sue Sony for giving me my sight problems.

XPViking · Post by **XPViking** » 2002-11-27 07:32pm

You know, every time McDonalds gets sued, I get this Weird Mental Image (TM) of the lawyer in court. He gets up for the opening statement, smooths down his suit, walks confidently over to the jury box as he raises his head. He takes a deep breath and delivers his opening argument:

"Rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble rubble"
(at this point he gestures angrily at the plaintiff)
"Rubble rubble rubble rubble..." - Sonnenburg

Ha ha ha ha ha! That was hilarious! And Grimace is the bailiff!

"Duh. Behave you two, or I'll hafta, uhhh,... crack you heads with this stick. Duh."

http://www.ronald.com/

XPViking

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-11-27 08:30pm

Exonerate wrote:I remember a kids suing the school for confiscating his pokemon cards...

On that subject, did you hear of the parents who sued Hasbro after their kid choked to death on one of their power bouncers? I'm suspecting they let it happen. The kid was 4 years old, and autistic. Autistic kids require constant supervision, and anyone with a functioning brain wouldn't give an austistic kid of that age such a toy.

Also, did you hear of that woman that sued Burger King because a woman sued Burger King because she was too dumb to keep one of those promotional balls away from her baby son? It's stupidity in action, people.

Then, there was that mother that sued because she spent too much money on pokemon cards for her kids.

The US needs an amendment that would make such frivolous and idiotic lawsuits impossible. I don't want to see humankind sink any lower than it already has.

StarDestroyer.Net BBS

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