Tuesday
(0)It seems the shakedown artists (sorry, legal campaigners) trying to sue fast food colossus McDonalds are not giving up their fight easily, even though a judge recently threw out a case from a man claiming he had been been turned into a lardbutt.
At first, it is tempting to file stories like this under this blog's 'humour' category, and of course in the past stories about overweight folks suing fast-food joints would have been the sort of thing to have been written up in the The Onion or Private Eye. But no longer. It seems one feature of decades of Big Government has been the steady infantilisation of large chunks of the populace to the point where the concept of taking responsibility for one's own actions no longer applies.
Perhaps folk who sue fast food retailers should instead sue the State education system for making them so dumb in the first place.
Not only does the State education help make them dumb, but inculcates, early on, the premise that there may be monetary rewards in learning to sue.
Posted by MommaBear at January 28, 2003 05:54 PM
Getting to the point of suing the State for a defective education may be a bit tricky.
Here in the States, if one decides to sue the federal government for one thing or another, one must first get PERMISSION FROM the federal government to sue the federal government.
Aye, there's the rub.
Posted by John J. Coupal at January 29, 2003 01:04 AM
