Newspaper report:
Overweight kids sue fast food giant
TWO OBESE teenagers are suing McDonald's for millions of dollars - for making them fat.
Both girls, who come from New York, are at least five and a half stone overweight. They claim that the fast food giant is to blame for their obesity after having eaten the chain's burgers and fries several times a week for years.
The unnamed teenagers, one of whom is 5ft 9ins tall weighing 19st and the other 5ft 3ins and weighing 14st, are claiming that the chain's meals are unhealthy, and have led to them becoming overweight and developing serious health problems, including heart disease.
The two girls, whose parents have filed the lawsuit in New York on their behalf, stand to win millions of dollars in compensation if they're successful.
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These extreme cases aren't the real issue, though. If EVERYONE in the country whose BMI is over 25 lost just ONE kilogram, it would have a big impact on the rate of obesity-related diseases.
I don't like Macdonalds, but I like frivolous litigation even less. I hope Ronald's lawyers blow the case off the face of the earth. Nobody forced the disgusting little bloaters to eat so much - because nobody ever got fat on ONE Happy Meal three times a week, and my kids certainly didn't when we employed a lovely nanny whose approach to catering was regular trips through the Arches.
I just hope that the ridiculous levels of litigation seen in the US don't surface here.
However, what are you going to put on food to avoid liability - "Eating too much will make you a lard-arse"? Or how about "If you weren't so neglecting, you may have noticed that your kids haven't received any basic nutrition education from you or, if they have, they've neglected it and you now have a fat kid who is not only unhealthy, but probably also gets bullied at school (if she isn't playing truant by now unable to take it any more) and will end up massively unhappy, if not anorexic too."
Litigation sometimes seems to be people's excuse for their own stupidity, lack of education or neglect. That's not what it's there for. Litigation is a solution to help put right something where an injustice has been done, not as compensation for one's own failings.
Fruit is good for you, but if you eat nothing else.....
Dustin...all fruit will be a very messy experience!
I hope MD win and the litigious b@st*rds have to pay costs.
Parents should take responsibility and even so the kids cannot surely be that thick!!!
It really p!sses me off!!!!
Best bit about it was the way in which the burns occurred - she was driving along with the thing wedged in between her legs trying to open the coffee with one hand while keeping the other on the wheel!!!!!!
Personally, stupidity seems to be the best defence McD's could have put forward...
Sorry for lowering the tone but thanks for the correction.
Stupidity seems to be quite rewarding doesn't it??
Well in a perfect world it would happen.
Having said that (to answer an earlier question) I have seen posters advertising the "healthiness" of McD's food.
Not that I'd recommend it, but I reckon that three Big Macs a week and forty miles a week wouldn't leave you that unhealthy.
I believe the McD's coffee award was $2.9 million. There was also a case where a woman shampooed her dog, and then killed it trying to dry its fur in her new microwave. She won the case because the packaging didn't contain any warning about not sticking dogs in it!
I guess it's cases like this that lead to the "silly" warnings on packets such as (on a packet of nuts) "open packet and eat contents", because otherwise some litigation happy idiot will swallow the packet whole and sue the manufacturers!
Iain
One of the complaints was that the cups used were too efficient, so as consumer's hands did not hurt (they would probably have sued if they had) they failed to register that the drink inside the cups mght be hot.
The Judge pointed out that most customers preferred their hot drnks hot and realised that could entail scalding if the drink was spilled. McD owes a duty of care to customers, but this did not extend to refusing to serve them hot drinks in case they spilled some. It was not unreasonable to assume the customers were bright enough to know that hot drinks were hot.
The sad thing is that they will probably win.
“This food will make you fat if not consumed as part of a calorie controlled diet.”
Atleast it keeps us amused for a while though!