Teenage Daughter: "Where's Baby Billy?" Wife: "I don't know, where did that little rascal go off to now?" Teenage Daughter: "Oh, there he is! He's playing on the back lawn." Wife (shouting to husband): "Honey! Aren't you back there mowing the lawn?" Husband (from behind wife): "No, I set the mower to auto and went inside to get a beer." <center>*Husband holds up a Miller Lite*</center> Wife and Daughter: "OH NO!! BILLY!!!!" Baby Billy: "Goo goo, ga spla.. pretty mower! pretty mower! goo gaa.." <center>"RRRrrrrrr.. Sputter.. sputter.. <font color="red">SPLATTER SPLATTER SPLAT!"</font color="red"></center> Nosy neighbour: "Hmm.. I didn't know baby guts made such good fertilizer.." ------------------ All hail Fadeaway's Cyberfish -- your 2000-2001 BobFinn* Fantasy Basketball League Champions!
Well, there's no warning label on a cheeseburger that says you could have a heart attack by consuming this product, so technically, you'd at least have a case. I've had similar thoughts. Maybe we should do a state-wide lawsuit similar to the way states sued the tobacco companies. ------------------ Founding Father of the Refs Suck Club
I think this thread is very funny and creative, so I won't bog it down with the fact that (to my knowledge) no individual has ever won a judgment against big tobacco for smoking-related illnesses. BTW, I love your ideas PSJ. Would those subs attack if you tried to leave without paying the bill? ------------------ Bingbong was set up, led to an untimely death in the prime of his life for no other reason than pure malice. Things like that do not go unavenged. Sometimes it spills out onto the field of play.
http://europe.cnn.com/2001/BUSINESS/06/06/philip.morris/index.html Here's one. ------------------ Houston Sports Board Film Dallas.com AntiBud.com
Mrpaige: WOW! I hadn't heard about that one. As much as I dislike the tobacco companies, 3 billion seems rather excessive. Anyone remember off-hand what year they started putting warning labels on cigarette packs? ------------------ Lacking inspiration at the moment...
Congress started requiring warning labels on cigarette packs in 1966. ------------------ Houston Sports Board Film Dallas.com AntiBud.com
I am equally shocked. Thanks for the cite, mrpaige. Last I knew the tobacco companies fought and won every time, on the grounds of assumption of risk as well as causation. Even weirder that it would only be on the CNN Europe page, even though it's a California case. The $3 billion is an incredible verdict. I would have to believe that CA has some sort of cap on exemplary damages to reduce it down to $10-$15 million or so. ------------------ Bingbong was set up, led to an untimely death in the prime of his life for no other reason than pure malice. Things like that do not go unavenged. Sometimes it spills out onto the field of play.
I like your plan, A-Train, except it doesn't appear to be one that will clog your arteries fast enough. Here is what I want you to do. Substitute Jack-in-the-Box and the Ultimate Triple Cheeseburger for BK and the double cheeseburger. That way...you won't have to wait very long to collect. If my calculations are correct, I think you will survive the first "Ultimate" heart attack. Just don't let it happen again as the cards are not so friendly the second time around. It will help if they can actually remove an undigested piece of the Ultimate Triple Cheeseburger from your artery as evidence . Surf ------------------
Limbaugh has been talking about this plan for years now...since the tobacco suits started. If I were making the argument I would base it on race grounds too...I'd find an African-American client...I'd then target McDonald's, who has made it a point to specically market to that demographic. I would talk about how they sold mostly fatty products, and didn't use vegetable oil to make fries. And that they deflated the price of their product to sell in bigger quantities for more consumption. You could even argue that low income blacks in urban areas have few options to these fast food places...and thus they have a duty to provide a healthier food, instead of injecting beef in the grease to fry up french fries for better taste. Obviously those who've seen me post here know I would never take this kind of case...I'm far too conservative for that kind of crap. But make no mistake..it's coming!! Someone will!! ------------------
Don't worry. It'll be appealed, and then eventually settled out of court for a significantly smaller amount. Big tobacco has deep pockets, and can afford all sorts of legal posturing. I still like the idea of a class-action lawsuit vs. the fast food industry. That stuff has to be at least as bad for you as cigarettes. And soft drinks, too. Those guys are loaded, and I want my share! ------------------ Founding Father of the Refs Suck Club
OK, check this out...You got all these people smoking cigarettes for 30 years, getting lung cancer, then winning millions or billions in a court battle. I'm taking this one step further... Since I can't stand the smell of cigarette smoke, and since tobacco is so difficult to quit, I have decided to eat a double cheeseburger at Burger King every single day from here on out, making sure I keep each and every receipt. I figure that at a one double cheeseburger per day pace, I'll have a heart attack in twenty years...twenty five TOPS. Then, I just sue Burger King for twenty million bucks, claiming that their advertising coerced me into eating cholesterol ridden hamburgers every day... I figure that all I have to do is survive ONE heart attack, and I'll be set for life at 45 or 50..If that one heart attack kills me, at least I'll die knowing that I had some good food! What does everybody think?? Could it work? It probably has a better shot at working than winning the lottery or something... ------------------ If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!!
I think someone's going to try out your idea, before you, to be honest . I don't think they'll win though... nicotine being highly addictive seemed pretty crucial in the cigarrette cases. And I don't think pure psychological addiction would be enough . ------------------ Lacking inspiration at the moment...
you'll die knowing you ate crap once a day till you died. rH ------------------ visit: The Psychedelic Groove House of Rockets Basketball Love! visit: groovehouse.org
RockHead: as a verified lover of pot, I thought you'd appreciate fast food.... or are you the Chinese buffet type ? ------------------ Lacking inspiration at the moment... [This message has been edited by haven (edited June 13, 2001).]
I figure that all I have to do is survive ONE heart attack, and I'll be set for life at 45 or 50. You have to survive more than one heart attack. If you survive the first and die on the second, did you really benefit? ------------------ http://www.swirve.com ... more fun than a barrel full of monkeys and midgets.
From the Onion: "Shouldn't Bic have to pay for making the lighters that made the cigarettes deadly in the first place?" OR "Three billion for endangering the guy's life? Christ, Philip Morris could've had him killed for a measly ten grand." ------------------ Houston Sports Board Film Dallas.com AntiBud.com
Here are my inventions and ideas on getting rich. Some were invented on alcohol. 1) Fish food on a string, so that no more fish food is wasted and floats to the bottom of your fish tank. It makes such a mess. 2) A restaurant that serves nothing but Salmon and side dishes. 3)Little plastic bobs that attach to your paint brushes. This is for painters that like to leave their brushes sitting in water, but who get annoyed that their bristles get bent on the bottom of the jar. The bobs allow the brushes to float. 4)An intelligent, self propelled lawn mower that knows when to recharge and shut down. 5)Self Propelled Tooth cleaner. Something you put in your mouth that will automaticllay pick at your teeth and brush them while you sleep. 6)A restauraunt that serves your food via miniature boats or subs that run along a canal within the restuaraunt. ------------------ humble, but hungry. [This message has been edited by PhiSlammaJamma (edited June 13, 2001).]
Well, if Burger King had knowledge that their cheeseburgers were very likely to be addicting and would cause heart problems, and they kept this info from you, then you'd probably have a case. ------------------ www.swirve.com "Pre-born, you're fine, pre-school, you're f*****."-George Carlin
of course it will be reduced!! it better be!! punishing a company for making money off the choices of individuals is ridiculous! we all know smoking is bad for you....including those who smoke. there are some who quit...there are some who don't. My grandmother used to smoke...she'd laugh at us when we told her to quit and that we we were worried it might make her sick. She said, "at least I'll die happy." I was there when she passed away after giving in to lung cancer. She would readily admit, that was her choice. She knew the dangers..she assumed the risk. The very idea that people prevail in these lawsuits is sickening. But we've created a culture where everything wrong is someone else's fault...and we want to get paid for it. Scary ------------------
So hiding the fact that they were addictive and dangerous doesn't matter? Jesus. ------------------ www.swirve.com "Pre-born, you're fine, pre-school, you're f*****."-George Carlin
