You just can't make this sort of thing up.
I ran into a discussion of another screwball lawsuit this morning. Here's a quote from an article about the affair: "Victoria McArthur, of Romero, Mich., is suing Starbursts' parent company, Mars Inc., for more than $25,000 for 'permanent personal injuries' she claims she sustained after biting into one of their yellow candy in 2005."
The discussion, produced by Fox News, included an apparently informed person who pointed out that the relatively small sum involved made the suit more reasonable than the recent case of the fifty-four-million-dollar pants.
Ms. McArthur's lawyer says that three chews of a Starburst® candy gave his client temporal mandibular joint dysfunction.
I hope that whoever hears this case isn't impressed by a medical term, with lots of big words.
Apparently, she wants warning labels on the Starburst® candies.
At this rate, it's only a matter of time before Chester Cheetah® has to stop saying "Dangerously Cheesy®" because the phrase will frighten young children and invalids.
As someone who is growing an online publishing company, maybe I should be taking this more seriously. Sooner or later, someone is going to realize that some company, preferably one with lots of money, can be sued because John Doe or Jane Roe got a headache while viewing that company's website. And, since that headache led to Dementia Paranoidies with Portal Hypertension
And win.
Or, maybe not. Recently, a court ruled in favor of the family enterprise that faced ruin over a $54 million dollar pair of pants. Good news for them, and for the rest of us.
And, a few other blogs on Judge Roy Pearon's vendetta against the Koreans:
- Justice Goes Back on the Grill: $54 Million Pants Back in Play July 11, 2007
- Judge Roy Pearson's Pants-Stealing Koreans July 7, 2007
- Legal Jihad and the Pants-Stealing Koreans July 6, 2007
- Another Screwball Lawsuit? June 27, 2007
- Justice is Served (Medium-Well) June 25, 2007
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