• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Obesity Suit Against McDonald's Dismissed

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Somebody buy that bitch a treadmill.

Viper GTS
Click to expand...

LMAO....I read your comment and a vision of you, dressed in black, flogging some poor fatty on a treadmill and screaming "RUN!!! RUN, YOU F*CKING COW!!" popped into my head for some reason.
Click to expand...

LOL... that's the highlight of my imagination for today... 😀
 
Now McDonalds should sue her... for being so fat that she scares away customers everytime she walks in the door... :Q
 
Originally posted by: BoYRaCeR
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Somebody buy that bitch a treadmill.

Viper GTS
Click to expand...

LMAO....I read your comment and a vision of you, dressed in black, flogging some poor fatty on a treadmill and screaming "RUN!!! RUN, YOU F*CKING COW!!" popped into my head for some reason.
Click to expand...

LOL... that's the highlight of my imagination for today... 😀
Click to expand...
Hehe...glad I could be of service. 😉

 
Originally posted by: KokomoGST
Now McDonalds should sue her... for being so fat that she scares away customers everytime she walks in the door... :Q
Click to expand...

The loser should be made to pay for Court costs and the legal cost for McDonalds as well. The only way to stop this nonsense.

Edit: The cost should be split between the loser and the loser's low life lawyer that proceeded on this.
 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against McDonald's Corp. . that alleged the fast food chain was responsible for children's obesity. U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet threw out the suit in its entirety. The judge held that the plaintiffs did not show that McDonald's products involve a danger unknown to the public.
Click to expand...
Well that is good, but we have not seen or heard the last of this.

There is an extraordinary and unprecedented potential for profit here on the part of trial lawyers, tens of millions of potential "victims", not simply because heart disease and obesity are leading killers and debilitators in the US, but because fast food corporations are an untapped source of revenue. It would make "The Great Tobacco Train Robbery" look like pocket change by comparison.

Lawsuits against gun manufacturers have largely went out of style after a brief peak, and were dwindling even before many states passed laws protecting gun manufacturers, because trial lawyers realized that few gun manufacturers manage to turn any sort of profit, and even those companies don't have much to take. Smith & Wesson and Colt have been bought and sold more times than the average Congressmen due to intractibly poor balance sheets. Even a modest award against most gun manufacturers would just cause them to fold and be liquidated. No money in that.

But Taco Bell, McDonald's, Burger King, et. al., now there's some big money just waiting to be had. And they will use the same principle of 'lawsuit attrition' they used with gun manufacturers and tobacco companies.

File 10,000 lawsuits, all identical in legal theory and argument:

9,000 of them will be dismissed before trial for being frivolous
900 of them will manage to go to trial but will not succeed
90 of them will be settled out of court
9 of them will result in an enormous precedent-setting award
 
Hey...let's go after the meat packers, the potato farmers, heck, the ice cream manufacturers, candy makers. There's no stopping the lawyers!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top