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Jackass
broke pickle jar
big booty
dildo
It was bound to happen. Sooner of later
avaricious class action lawyers had to take on the deep pocketed fast
food industry. Well, sooner has finally arrived in the form of one
Caesar Barber, 56, a maintenance worker who weighs about 270 pounds
and stands 5-foot-10.
Barber and his lawyer claim McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC
jeopardized his health with their greasy, salty fare. He filed a class
action lawsuit on Wednesday in the New York State Supreme Court in the
Bronx on behalf of an unspecified number of other obese and ill New
Yorkers who also feast on fast food.
Barber's lawsuit is the first broad-based action taken against the
fast food industry for allegedly contributing to obesity. He claims
the fast food restaurants, where Barber says he used to eat four or
five times a week even after suffering a heart attack, did not
properly disclose the ingredients of their food and the risks of
eating too much.
"They never explained to me what I was eating," Barber
whined on ABC's Good Morning America.
His lawyer, Samuel Hirsch, said the multibillion-dollar fast food
industry has an obligation to warn consumers of the dangers of eating
from their menus. "It's a question of informing the
consumers," he said. "[The companies] profited
enormously."
Among the claims made by the lawyer include: the fast food chains were
negligent in selling food high in fat, salt, sugar, and cholesterol
content, the lawsuit claims, despite studies showing a link between
consuming such foods and obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease,
high blood pressure, strokes, elevated cholesterol intake, related
cancers, and other health problems. Blah, blah, blah ...
Since Barber has suffered injuries — he has had two heart attacks
and is diabetic from scarfing down the burgers, fries and fried
chicken -- the lawyer contends that barbar and his class action
cronnies are entitled to unspecified damages at a jury trial.
A food industry spokesman says he is surprised Hirsch can make his
legal argument with a straight face.
"He must be aware that fully two-thirds of all foods consumed in
America are consumed in people's homes. Is he proposing that we sue
America's moms?" said John Doyle, co-founder of Center for
Consumer Freedom, a restaurant industry group.
More troubling is the implication the lawsuit makes about the
abilities of Americans to choose what they eat, Doyle said. "To
win his suit he has to convince a jury or a judge that people are too
stupid to feed themselves or their children. If people are so stupid,
should they be allowed to vote or go to work in the morning?"
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