EPTNutella loses $3.5million lawsuit - Page 16
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Hall0wed
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Kich
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Netsky
Australia1155 Posts
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Avelii
Switzerland18 Posts
Also, read the nutrition labels on it? It's sad, that people actually get money for such things... And waste other peoples time (judges etc.) which could be spent on actually important stuff. | ||
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Arush
Canada80 Posts
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FallDownMarigold
United States3710 Posts
On April 28 2012 08:40 flamewheel wrote: Coffee is hot. This should be regarded as a gaffe, believe it or not. People like to make fun of the lady who sued McDonald's because she spilled scalding hot coffee on her lap. The fact of the matter is that the coffee was so negligently hot that it actually burned her vagina straight through to the pelvic bone. Too graphic? Well that's what she endured due to McDonald's mistake. She didn't even get any money in the end, so it's pretty crude to deride her experience. Spilling coffee from a restaurant should result in some sharp pain at most. I think it's reasonable to sue the SHIT out of a place that serves a product capable of melting flesh to the bone without explicit warning. If they wanted to serve it that hot they could've at least included a "CAUTION: Don't spill or this shit will melt your flesh! It's that hot and good!" sticker on their cups | ||
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Kazahk
United States385 Posts
The companies want money, its a fault in our human psychology. We cant blame people for being human, at the same time we cant blame some one for being dumb. It was their fault and they should take full responsabilty for it; but still its not their fault if you get what im trying to say, sort of like a person who was brutally abused as a child and grew up into a phsycopathic murder. They killed people but it wasnt their fault it was the parents. They abused and neglected their child and now their dead. Said crazy killer will be put to trail and is responsible but you cant call say it was directly his fault that he killed his parents. Same thing here with nuttella woman, she was very naive and not smart like, but it was her parents that neglected/ poorly disciplined, never taught her to think etc. But ill go even further and say what if it wasn't her parents but the Government who put subliminal messages on the TV who's parents set no limit to as they were alcoholics because of their own child hood problems, who parents had their own who's great grand parents who's cousin was a child molester etc. etc. etc. My main point was to say were all messed up people, and the next person is more twisted and evil in their own way. WE are some how were involved in this sad sad world we live in today and unless we realize that and stop going to either side red or side blue, we will never progress and shall be feeding vanilla gummy bear spread to our children thinking its healthy because vanilla is a bean. Let us accept that were in a way both right. She was dumb and should have looked at the nutrition panel, but at the same time the companies are evil greedy bastards. some where between black and white is gray, ...and we must accept that. (im still down for the vanilla gummy bear spread, shit sounds DOPE! :D) | ||
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sc4k
United Kingdom5454 Posts
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renlynn
United States276 Posts
On April 28 2012 16:21 FallDownMarigold wrote: This should be regarded as a gaffe, believe it or not. People like to make fun of the lady who sued McDonald's because she spilled scalding hot coffee on her lap. The fact of the matter is that the coffee was so negligently hot that it actually burned her vagina straight through to the pelvic bone. Too graphic? Well that's what she endured due to McDonald's mistake. She didn't even get any money in the end, so it's pretty crude to deride her experience. Spilling coffee from a restaurant should result in some sharp pain at most. I think it's reasonable to sue the SHIT out of a place that serves a product capable of melting flesh to the bone without explicit warning. If they wanted to serve it that hot they could've at least included a "CAUTION: Don't spill or this shit will melt your flesh! It's that hot and good!" sticker on their cups looks like about 40 degrees too hot http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm I remember reading somewhere this was because a lot of their customers didn't get around to their coffee until much later (driving on the road or whatever) so they overheated to make it keep its temperature longer. | ||
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screamingpalm
United States1527 Posts
We consumers are constantly told to take responsibility for our actions, yet this type of deceptive advertising and other shady business practices are accepted for some reason. Barely even an outcry when peanut butter companies were knowingly shipping product contaminated with salmonella in order to save the bottom line. And still, people eagerly rally around agendas to shut down government agencies such as the FDA! Giving up rights to and/or putting limits on litigation through tort reform while waiting for unfettered capitalism to run its course doesn't seem like the best option to me. | ||
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-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
On April 28 2012 08:38 rotinegg wrote: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/today-food-finance-nutella-not-broccoli-162956191.html So basically, Ferrero, the company that makes Nutella, got sued by some woman named Athena Hohenberg, because she was an idiot and thought Nutella would be HEALTHY for her children. Turns out, it's not (surprise surprise) and she filed a lawsuit claiming false advertising. She won the case, and Ferrero has to shell out $3.5 million, 2.5 of which will be spread out to claimants in a class action lawsuit. I think this is retarded, and sometimes I really hate the people we live with. Thoughts? If she is retarded then why did Nuttela lose the lawsuit? There were obviously some false advertising involved here. Personally I hate companies that lie to us more then people suing them. | ||
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horsebanger
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Man with a Plan
United States401 Posts
On April 28 2012 16:21 FallDownMarigold wrote: This should be regarded as a gaffe, believe it or not. People like to make fun of the lady who sued McDonald's because she spilled scalding hot coffee on her lap. The fact of the matter is that the coffee was so negligently hot that it actually burned her vagina straight through to the pelvic bone. Too graphic? Well that's what she endured due to McDonald's mistake. She didn't even get any money in the end, so it's pretty crude to deride her experience. Spilling coffee from a restaurant should result in some sharp pain at most. I think it's reasonable to sue the SHIT out of a place that serves a product capable of melting flesh to the bone without explicit warning. If they wanted to serve it that hot they could've at least included a "CAUTION: Don't spill or this shit will melt your flesh! It's that hot and good!" sticker on their cups Yeah, the McDonald's example is becoming a legend that people do not anymore know the real story behind it. The sad thing about it is that the woman didn't even get compensated. | ||
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jobber123rd
United States501 Posts
On April 28 2012 16:47 horsebanger wrote: there's more to it than we know for sure. remember, the woman had the jury from USA backing her up No jury was involved; it was settled out of court. | ||
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redemption
United States112 Posts
On April 28 2012 16:46 -Archangel- wrote: If she is retarded then why did Nuttela lose the lawsuit? There were obviously some false advertising involved here. Personally I hate companies that lie to us more then people suing them. They didn't lose. They settled. | ||
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grtgrt1
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Daogin
Canada2308 Posts
On April 28 2012 16:55 Man with a Plan wrote: Yeah, the McDonald's example is becoming a legend that people do not anymore know the real story behind it. The sad thing about it is that the woman didn't even get compensated. the thing that gets me about mcdonalds is the fact that i dont even know how they managed to get such "hot" coffee. I work at Tim Hortons and the hottest thing we serve is tea, which is boiling water but not enough to cause third degree burns. I've even spilt it all over my hands, yea it's hot but not that hot :S | ||
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UltimateHurl
Ireland591 Posts
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
As for the lawsuit itself, meh in the end its just another expense that doesn't hurt them much. I hope something good can come from this but honestly companies don't change until they have to or something really scares them into change. | ||
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goldenwitch
United States338 Posts
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