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halonachos wrote:What makes you say that, some sort of principle on the matter?

Oh, it's good to have principles, but to fight over something because of how it relates to your principles despite being too insignificant to make any material difference to anything - that's just being a jackass.

I went to see 'Titanic' expecting to see a film about my penis. Imagine my disappointment.

Hmmmm, it's stupid law suits like this that forced McDonalds to put 'Caution:Contents Hot' on thier coffee cups....
The world really is spinning out of control!


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@Albatross, modesty much?

It's not modesty
The Titanic sank

fwiw I have the same problem

Cheer up Chibi! The Titanic made 1200 some odd people very happy......before the sad end.....

sebster wrote:Even if they won, wouldn't they just get $10 back? Seems kind of pointless, really.

Also, people who complain that movies don't have as much driving in them as those Fast and Furious movies need to be exiled from society.

Pain and suffering, emotional damages, you know the typical crap people pile onto lawsuits. Thats why she added the race card in there as well, otherwise yea she would of spent a couple grand to get her 10 bucks back. I honestly saw a guy on TV once that did spend a couple grand to get his local USPS to refund him the cost of a postage stamp. I gak you not

But my sad end hasn't made one person happy

The stupidity gets worse http://news.techeye.net/internet/woman-says-3d-porno-made-her-pregnant

I weep for your sad end Chibi

“Even though my husband believed in me, my marriage could be at risk,” Jennifer said. “But he knows I’m faithful.” It just shows you what joining the military does to your head.

Must have been an immaculate conception.
aka The perfect

It is her own fault for not practising safe sex
She should have worn some goggles!

Man, THAT would be a weird paternity suit.

I could imagine this thing appearing on Jeremy Kyle.

sebster wrote:


Oh, it's good to have principles, but to fight over something because of how it relates to your principles despite being too insignificant to make any material difference to anything - that's just being a jackass.

Or religious*.





*I, in no way, believe that religious people are necessarily jackasses. Just a bit of fun.

sebster wrote:Even if they won, wouldn't they just get $10 back? Seems kind of pointless, really.

That's the beauty of a class action lawsuit.

First you get the court to certify your class, say everyone who went to see this movie. Lets make a SWAG and call it a million people.

Now you've got $10 million in damages. But the studio won't want to pay that. Instead, they offer to settle, maybe give everyone in the class a coupon for $2 off their next movie experience (still above the theater cost, and most people won't use them anyway).

Attorneys fees are awarded, say about 50% of the settlement ($1 million to the law firm).

The named member of the class gets about .1% of the recovery. That's an easy $2,000.

corpsesarefun wrote:The stupidity gets worse http://news.techeye.net/internet/woman-says-3d-porno-made-her-pregnant

Oh my dear God no.................seriously?!? I mean......seriously? That guy HAS to of been born and raised in some backwoods city. Only explanation I can think of. That really just boggles the mind.........so thats how Jesus was born then? It just raises more questions then answers give

YHWH. World's first producer of 3D movies.

I would rather we have a million frivolous lawsuits than have one person with a legitimate one blocked from bringing it.

They're the price we pay for fairness. We collectively suck it up and take the terrible suits as they are evidence that the real ones are not being impeded in any way.

If only.

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Hmmmm, it's stupid law suits like this that forced McDonalds to put 'Caution:Contents Hot' on thier coffee cups....
The world really is spinning out of control!

You should read into that case, McDonalds really were in the wrong (the coffee machine was broken and served coffee at outrageously high temperatures, so hot that it delivered second degree burns through clothes, with about 20 seconds of exposure, coffee served at a regular temperature would make your skin slightly read in that time).

The warning label they know put on their coffee is there because McDonalds is being petulant about having been in the wrong.


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KingCracker wrote:Pain and suffering, emotional damages, you know the typical crap people pile onto lawsuits. Thats why she added the race card in there as well, otherwise yea she would of spent a couple grand to get her 10 bucks back. I honestly saw a guy on TV once that did spend a couple grand to get his local USPS to refund him the cost of a postage stamp. I gak you not

Yeah, possibly. Either way, we're really just looking at a very strange person making a very strange and entirely doomed decision, and a lawyer happy to fulfill her wishes and charge her fees along the way.


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biccat wrote:That's the beauty of a class action lawsuit.

I wish her good luck in finding 200,000 people willing to put their name down to this silliness.


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Rented Tritium wrote:I would rather we have a million frivolous lawsuits than have one person with a legitimate one blocked from bringing it.

They're the price we pay for fairness. We collectively suck it up and take the terrible suits as they are evidence that the real ones are not being impeded in any way.

Sure, and people don't realise most of the ridiculous suits that get raised are shot down as quickly as possible, and most of the ones that were successful are either entirely fraudulent or grossly misrepresented.

There is an issue with business having to pay to reach the position where the case can be thrown out, and there's probably a lot that can be done to reduce costs before it reaches that stage.

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sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Hmmmm, it's stupid law suits like this that forced McDonalds to put 'Caution:Contents Hot' on thier coffee cups....
The world really is spinning out of control!

You should read into that case, McDonalds really were in the wrong (the coffee machine was broken and served coffee at outrageously high temperatures, so hot that it delivered second degree burns through clothes, with about 20 seconds of exposure, coffee served at a regular temperature would make your skin slightly read in that time).

The warning label they know put on their coffee is there because McDonalds is being petulant about having been in the wrong.

The coffee machine wasn't broken, it was just the temperature it was served at, a lot of places that serve hot beverages have been pulled up for it.

It was also third degree burns, not second degree, since it required skin grafting.

Also, it was proven by British scientists in a British court that coffee at the temperature people were calling for it to be (65 degrees centigrade, as opposed to the 80 or 90 degrees it was argued was necessary to produce third degree burns) would also produce the same result:

"Liebeck's lawyers presented the jury with evidence that 180 °F (82 °C) coffee like that McDonald’s served may produce third-degree burns (where skin grafting is necessary) in about 12 to 15 seconds. Lowering the temperature to 160 °F (71 °C) would increase the time for the coffee to produce such a burn to 20 seconds. (A British court later rejected this argument as scientifically false finding that 149 °F (65 °C) liquid could cause deep tissue damage in only two seconds.)" Taken from the Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants#Similar_lawsuits citing this reference: http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2002/490.html

I believe that all similar lawsuits in the UK have failed based on that and other evidence, such as the fact that most people expect their hot drinks to be suitably hot, and prefer to allow them to cool down as opposed to being made at a lower temperature to start with, and the fact that in order to gain the best aroma and taste from the drink, it should be made at a suitably high temperature to induce the necessary reactions; any lower would have simply attracted the ire of customers who expected quality, and who would ultimately deem it unacceptable.

It should also be noted that McDonalds did carry a warning label prior to the 'Liebeck vs McDonald's Restaurants' case, however it was deemed to be too small and insufficient, so now it's simply more sternly worded and on the side of rigid foam cups.

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biccat wrote:That's the beauty of a class action lawsuit.

I wish her good luck in finding 200,000 people willing to put their name down to this silliness.

You don't have to find people willing to put their name down. You simply make the case that the named plaintiffs are representative of the class and that the class is so numerous that individual notice would be impractical. The court then directs you to publish or otherwise provide notice (say a newspaper ad in cities where the movie played) of an individual's right to opt out of the class.

Yes, this is a problem.