03-11-2004, 05:23 PM | #1 |
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Heres the link to the article
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/...tendo001.shtml People blames video games for EVERYTHING, and this article proves it. [img]graemlins/dontknowaboutyou.gif[/img]
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03-11-2004, 05:27 PM | #2 | |
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03-11-2004, 05:37 PM | #3 |
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It's a repeat of the McDonald's case if you ask me.
For those of you who don't know about it. Woman spills coffee on herself gets burned and sues McDonald's for injury and not adequately labeling their coffee cups with caution hot! Much worse in this case since Nintendo and all other gaming companies put a nice seizure warning on the first page of all their manuals including the system manual itself. Since the days of the NES console and maybe even before those warnings have been there. The Courts are enabling the steady decline of human intelligence in the US.
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03-11-2004, 07:49 PM | #4 |
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i saw on cnn that the US is planning to pass a legislation to make frivolous lawsuits illegal.
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03-11-2004, 08:03 PM | #5 |
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Punishable by an automatically victorious counter-suit to receive full financial compensation for court dates plus financial claims against the frivolously sued party?
We can only hope...
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03-11-2004, 08:04 PM | #6 | |
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03-11-2004, 09:35 PM | #7 |
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It's not all frivolus lawsuits they're looking to stop in the law, just ones by obese people against fast food companies.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4507624/ http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/10/fa...its/index.html
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03-11-2004, 10:02 PM | #8 |
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That may be, Harley, but it generates a precedent in favor of Nintendo and other cases where it's really a matter of customer stupidity.
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03-12-2004, 07:12 PM | #9 |
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Some of these lawyers who are handling these idiotic cases should be shot.
What's next, sueing Nike because you tripped over your shoe laces?
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03-13-2004, 06:07 PM | #10 | |
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The problem with the McDonald's coffee was that they were heating their coffee (a food product) to a level that was considered to be unsafe for consumption... and not just by a few degrees either, mind you. I believe that the temparature was not too far below the boiling point, and that's ridicultous. So the lawsuit wasn't to fight the fact that this McDonald's was serving hot coffee, but rather that they were serving their coffee at tempratures that were deemed to be well beyond unsafe. The government believed that McDonald's should either lower their coffee tempreratures, or begin labeling their products. Unfortunately, the effect just snowballed from there.
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