THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE No. 2
"Potwhoppers with Cheese and the Death of Personal Responsibility"
On October 8 in Los Lunas, New Mexico, three Burger King employees ages 19, 21 and 33 allegedly served hamburgers laced with marijuana to two police officers with the Isleta Pueblo tribal police force. According to the lawsuit that's now been filed, the officers ate about half of their burgers before discovering the marijuana in the meat. After a field test kit confirmed there was indeed pot in the hamburgers, the police officers proceeded to the hospital for medical evaluation.
The three Burger King employees were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and aggravated battery to an officer which is a felony. That's where is should have stopped.
Now, a lawsuit has been filed against Burger King by attorney Sam Bregman. The lawsuit seeks punitive and compensatory damages to be determined at trial, along with legal costs. The lawsuit alleges personal injury, negligence, battery and violation of fair practices. According to Bregman, "[The officers] lives were placed in danger because of these idiots and Burger King."
Idiots? Yes. Burger King? I don't think so.
Three stoners, or more likely, two stoners and a manager with the misfortune of doing something other than watching Dumb and Dumber orchestrate the drive through, serve two cops Whoppers laced with drugs. Now, I'm not the lawyer in the family, but I think I could win that one at trial. After all, our country and our judicial system are all about the pursuit of truth and assigning personal responsibility, right? This is easy. You've got two idiots who are A) dumb enough to smoke pot, B) dumb enough to bring it to work, and C) dumb enough to find humor in serving Potwhoppers with Cheese to uniformed cops in a marked police car. These geniuses are 19 and 21 and still serving fries with that. We're not talking Mensa here. Put their asses under the jail. I could care less.
What bothers me is Burger King is being sued. For millions, I promise you. And why? Because they're guilty. Guilty of having very deep pockets and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Two idiots made a critically bad decision and now it's time for a bunch of lawyers to hit the lottery. Even if Burger King settles out of court, which they probably will to avoid the bad PR and protracted costs of the lawsuit, a third of six zeroes is still a lot of cash. Unfortunately, for the rest of the Burger King system, it's also a whole lot of burgers.
Burger King's not responsible for this. Unless you can show me the paragraph in the french fry handbook that suggests it would be funny to serve drugs in the food, it's not their fault. Unless you can show me surveillance footage of "The King," as creepy as he is, chopping up a a blunt and sprinkling it on top of the Whopper in question, back off. Even if you can prove the manager knew about the tainted burgers and still served them, that has nothing to do with Burger King. That has to do with the manager.
According to their website, Burger King operates more than 11,000 restaurants in 65 countries around the world. More than 90% are owned by individual franchisees, in many cases, families who have owned their restaurants for generations. Please explain to me why those people are more responsible for this than the idiots who served the burgers. Why? Because they don't make $6.15 an hour.
Sadly, fast food and the death of common sense have become strange, but frequent, bedfellows. Just ask McDonald's who lived through not just one, but two of the most riduculous lawsuits in the history of ever. First, an old woman sued the golden arches after she was burned by a cup of hot coffee she put between her legs while driving. Forget that McDonald's menu says "Hot Coffee." Forget that every car on the planet has multiple drink holders. Forget that in a survey of 1,000 Eskimoes, Sherpas from Mount Everest and North Pole elves, not one said the crotch was a good place to put a cup of hot liquid while driving a car. But still, this was McDonald's fault.
It was also McDonald's fault that a bunch of 15-year-old girls in New York got fat. Not, teenage girl, "oh, my God I look so fat in these jeans" fat. We're talking Grand Champion Sumo, Jenny Craig "Before" pictures fat. We're talking 350 large. And it was McDonald's responsibility. The lawsuit said so. Apparently, there was no place for personal responsibility on the part of these girls who were Supersizing up to 5 times a day, every day. No discussion of the parents asleep at the switch. Nope. These cases of morbid obesity were McDonald's fault. And now, there are others looking to get fat at the expense of another fast food giant.
We'll see what happens. Personally, I've lost my appetite.
"Potwhoppers with Cheese and the Death of Personal Responsibility"
On October 8 in Los Lunas, New Mexico, three Burger King employees ages 19, 21 and 33 allegedly served hamburgers laced with marijuana to two police officers with the Isleta Pueblo tribal police force. According to the lawsuit that's now been filed, the officers ate about half of their burgers before discovering the marijuana in the meat. After a field test kit confirmed there was indeed pot in the hamburgers, the police officers proceeded to the hospital for medical evaluation.
The three Burger King employees were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and aggravated battery to an officer which is a felony. That's where is should have stopped.
Now, a lawsuit has been filed against Burger King by attorney Sam Bregman. The lawsuit seeks punitive and compensatory damages to be determined at trial, along with legal costs. The lawsuit alleges personal injury, negligence, battery and violation of fair practices. According to Bregman, "[The officers] lives were placed in danger because of these idiots and Burger King."
Idiots? Yes. Burger King? I don't think so.
Three stoners, or more likely, two stoners and a manager with the misfortune of doing something other than watching Dumb and Dumber orchestrate the drive through, serve two cops Whoppers laced with drugs. Now, I'm not the lawyer in the family, but I think I could win that one at trial. After all, our country and our judicial system are all about the pursuit of truth and assigning personal responsibility, right? This is easy. You've got two idiots who are A) dumb enough to smoke pot, B) dumb enough to bring it to work, and C) dumb enough to find humor in serving Potwhoppers with Cheese to uniformed cops in a marked police car. These geniuses are 19 and 21 and still serving fries with that. We're not talking Mensa here. Put their asses under the jail. I could care less.
What bothers me is Burger King is being sued. For millions, I promise you. And why? Because they're guilty. Guilty of having very deep pockets and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Two idiots made a critically bad decision and now it's time for a bunch of lawyers to hit the lottery. Even if Burger King settles out of court, which they probably will to avoid the bad PR and protracted costs of the lawsuit, a third of six zeroes is still a lot of cash. Unfortunately, for the rest of the Burger King system, it's also a whole lot of burgers.
Burger King's not responsible for this. Unless you can show me the paragraph in the french fry handbook that suggests it would be funny to serve drugs in the food, it's not their fault. Unless you can show me surveillance footage of "The King," as creepy as he is, chopping up a a blunt and sprinkling it on top of the Whopper in question, back off. Even if you can prove the manager knew about the tainted burgers and still served them, that has nothing to do with Burger King. That has to do with the manager.
According to their website, Burger King operates more than 11,000 restaurants in 65 countries around the world. More than 90% are owned by individual franchisees, in many cases, families who have owned their restaurants for generations. Please explain to me why those people are more responsible for this than the idiots who served the burgers. Why? Because they don't make $6.15 an hour.
Sadly, fast food and the death of common sense have become strange, but frequent, bedfellows. Just ask McDonald's who lived through not just one, but two of the most riduculous lawsuits in the history of ever. First, an old woman sued the golden arches after she was burned by a cup of hot coffee she put between her legs while driving. Forget that McDonald's menu says "Hot Coffee." Forget that every car on the planet has multiple drink holders. Forget that in a survey of 1,000 Eskimoes, Sherpas from Mount Everest and North Pole elves, not one said the crotch was a good place to put a cup of hot liquid while driving a car. But still, this was McDonald's fault.
It was also McDonald's fault that a bunch of 15-year-old girls in New York got fat. Not, teenage girl, "oh, my God I look so fat in these jeans" fat. We're talking Grand Champion Sumo, Jenny Craig "Before" pictures fat. We're talking 350 large. And it was McDonald's responsibility. The lawsuit said so. Apparently, there was no place for personal responsibility on the part of these girls who were Supersizing up to 5 times a day, every day. No discussion of the parents asleep at the switch. Nope. These cases of morbid obesity were McDonald's fault. And now, there are others looking to get fat at the expense of another fast food giant.
We'll see what happens. Personally, I've lost my appetite.
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