Yet Another Stupid Lawsuit

[Guest Fook]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...9/od_nm/soup_dc

 

Mom Sues After Finding Tooth in Chicken Soup

Fri Sep 19, 1:22 PM ET

 

DENVER (Reuters) - A Utah woman has sued the Campbell Soup Co., saying she found a tooth in the chicken soup she served her 13-month-old son last year and now is afraid to eat soup, her attorney said.

 

"We're seeking unspecified damages. My client is worried about blood-borne disease (the tooth could contain), and also for shock. Now she's afraid to eat soup," attorney Daniel Irvin said Thursday by telephone from Salt Lake City.

 

"We don't comment on pending litigation," Campbell spokesman John Faulkner said, adding, that "We were never given a sample of what she described as a tooth. We couldn't come to any resolution."

 

According to her lawyer, Tina Keeney contacted Campbell last summer, reporting the tooth. But attorney Irvin said he told his client not to send the tooth in case it got lost in transit because he would then have nothing to show a jury.

 

He also said they took the tooth to a dentist who specializes in identifying teeth. "He thought this case was frivolous then he saw it and said 'yes, you have a tooth," Irvin said. The dentist identified the tooth as a molar that came from a teenager.

[Guest ToddRoyal]

He also said they took the tooth to a dentist who specializes in identifying teeth

 

Huh? There are dentists out there who DON'T know what a tooth looks like? I'd be really scared if my dentist couldn't tell me what was and wasn't a tooth.

 

Oh. And yes its another stupid lawsuit by people looking to make money of companies with too much of it. Sigh.

[Guest Retro Rob]

With or without the tooth, Campbell's Chicken Noodle isn't really the best thing for anybody to be eating. I'm sure all the damn salt in that crap would have killed any blood-borne diseases anyway.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

I'd be tripping if I found a tooth in my soup though, wouldn't you be?

[sfaJack 0]

I'd be tripping if I found a tooth in my soup though, wouldn't you be?

It'd be a little weird, but I don't think it would make me afraid to ever eat soup again. And I certainly don't think I be "mentally distressed" or whatever she's claiming here.

 

I'd just ask Campbell's for some coupons for a case of free soup or something and get on with my life. Like any rational person would.

[Der Kommissar 0]

How exactly would a tooth get into a can of soup in the first place?

[Downhome 0]

What's so stupid about this? If I found a tooth, A FUCKING TOOTH, in anything I was going to eat, or had been eating, there would be hell to pay.

 

I'd take them for all I could get also, that's insanely disgusting.

[Downhome 0]

On the G Block on FNC, they're about to talk about the woman and the tooth, heh.

[Guest Retro Rob]

What's so stupid about this? If I found a tooth, A FUCKING TOOTH, in anything I was going to eat, or had been eating, there would be hell to pay.

 

I'd take them for all I could get also, that's insanely disgusting.

But would you be AFRAID of soup for the rest of your life? That is this woman's claim.

[Guest El Satanico]

It's an unidentified tooth...I see no problem with this lawsuit.

 

Anyone who claims that suing over finding a foriegn tooth in your food is a stupid lawsuit, is just looking for something to bitch about.

 

If it takes claiming that you are afraid to eat soup, then so be it. Besides, who are we to say her claim of now being afraid to eat soup isn't true?

 

 

It's not like she's suing over coffee being hot or fast food making her fat.

[Guest Danny Dubya v 2.0]

... Ok, this really really IS pathetic.

 

It's so asbolutely freakin' obvious that the kid lost his tooth in the soup and mother and son had a brief little talk before making their complaint.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

You're being sarcastic, right Danny?

 

Her kid is just over a year old. He probably doesn't HAVE teeth, let alone is he losing a teenager's teeth.

 

I'm on the side of this being something to sue over, if for no other reason then to get Campbell to smarten the fuck up. How on EARTH would a tooth get into some soup? And if a tooth did, what's to stop other things?

[Guest El Satanico]

... Ok, this really really IS pathetic.

 

It's so asbolutely freakin' obvious that the kid lost his tooth in the soup and mother and son had a brief little talk before making their complaint.

There's a big difference between a baby tooth and an adult tooth.

 

If it was her kids tooth the courts would quickly throw it out.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

On the G Block on FNC, they're about to talk about the woman and the tooth, heh.

Well, if it's on OMG FAUX NEWS LOL2003! then the woman is probably making it up.

 

I'm suspicious when lawsuits of this nature pop up, but anything is possible (still have nightmares about the chicken mcnugget that was a chicken head).

 

This is just the kind of case for a scumbag lawyer to sink his teeth into (pun intended)...

[Downhome 0]

What's so stupid about this? If I found a tooth, A FUCKING TOOTH, in anything I was going to eat, or had been eating, there would be hell to pay.

 

I'd take them for all I could get also, that's insanely disgusting.

But would you be AFRAID of soup for the rest of your life? That is this woman's claim.

It sure as hell would make me look twice every single time I ever open up a can of anything. I don't see how anyone could just forget about finding a...FUCKING TOOTH, in a can of whatever.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Before I clicked the link I thought she got raped at an Andy Warhol exhibit and was traumatized in that regard.

 

But yeah "the dentist that specializes in teeth" was good for a laugh.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I'd never eat Campbell's again if I found a tooth in mine. And also, having experience in both food service and warehouses has enlightened me to the millions of fucked up things that our grub goes through.

 

For instance, the warehouse I work at supplies food, perscription and OTC medicine, cigarettes, soap, and dry goods to a pretty good sized cross section of the midwest.

 

The place is also infested with huge fucking mice that shit and piss and chew and crawl on everything. The place is perpetually filthy, and reflects the condition of most places like it. The tooth being there doesn't surprise me one bit.

[Steve J. Rogers 0]

What's so stupid about this? If I found a tooth, A FUCKING TOOTH, in anything I was going to eat, or had been eating, there would be hell to pay.

 

I'd take them for all I could get also, that's insanely disgusting.

I agree, but the stupid thing is how this is being made into such a big public spectacle.

 

There certainly are worse things to be in a soup that a tooth, i.e. bugs, ect

 

It's a legit lawsuit, (maybe more the company that packages the product than the product themselves) but something that shoud be a private matter.

 

I'm sure these things happen quite frequently

 

Hell my Mom once found some dead insect in a Snapple bottle, sued and won. Does anyone know about that? No, because she didn't go public and say "I'm never drinking Snapple products again!" or something stupid like that

 

Steve

 

Steve

[Ripper 0]

I'd rather find a bug in my soup than A FUCKING HUMAN TOOTH. A bug, I can understand. I would be pissed, but hey, bugs are everywhere. HOW THE FUCK DOES A HUMAN TOOTH GET INTO THE SOUP!

[Ravenbomb 0]

*some kind of Earth vs. Soup reference here*

I couldn't think of anything to say

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Tosses out all the "waiter, theres a _____ in my soup" jokes.

 

Oh, and theres been wierder, more disgusting stuff found in food before. I remember someone found a needle (like at a hospital) in a can of coke, someone found a dead rat in a box of cereal..etc.

 

One reason I dont eat crunchy peanut butter is because the government sets a limit (real low but its still not NONE) to the ammount of rodent parts that can be found in peanut butter.

Its something like 1 part per million, but who knows if that crunchy part of the peanut butter is actually made of peanuts???

[Ravenbomb 0]

remember the Keanen and Kel episode where Keanen got a screw in his tuna? Did anybody ever even WATCH Keanen and Kel?

[NYU 0]

Didn't someone find a penis in a bottle of fruit juice a year or two ago ? Now, THAT is something worth suing over.

 

As for this lawsuit, hell, I don't blame her. Finding a tooth in a bowl of soup is disgusting and Campbell's should have to pay SOME money as punishment, and assure that it won't happen again. I know I'd flip if I saw a tooth in my soup, so I think she has a right to sue - just not for $50 million or some other absurdly high number.

[BX 0]

 

Wel Howdy Folks! Uh, mah name is Bob. I wuz just search'n round for some grub, and I hears sumptin bout soup?

 

Yall got eny?

 

Whuzzat? A toof? Ya sissies! Back in mah day, we use'ta eat toof-soup by the can foo'. If I wuz you, I'd eat muh damned toof soup, and be 'appy bout it!

 

So shuttup.

[Guest KJ Brackish]

Hey TRITEC....where you been? (OFF TOPIC)

 

Anyways....

 

The lady that this happened too lives a couple blocks away from me. She had the news stations and stuff over. I was like........DUH! I mean, it would freak me out, but she's making a huge thing about it. I mean all of our channel's news stations covered it. Talk about dumb mormon-utahns'

 

DFA

[Guest Danny Dubya v 2.0]

Meh. So so so sick of infants' ages being measured in months even after they turn one year old. I read that as years at first =P

 

OlympicHeroRVD - a penis in a bottle of fruit juice? Damnit, why doesn't anyone try worms or some sort of ultra-contagious stomach bug?... Of what animal and from whom did the flavor enhancer originate?

[Toshiaki Koala 0]

I really wouldn't put this in the same category as the McDonalds guy. I mean, if I found a goddamn TOOTH in something I was eating, I think I'd be more than a little uneasy.

[NYU 0]

Well, nevermind about the penis in the fruit juice. Snopes.com said it was a hoax.

 

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Origins: On 2 October 2001, the never-ending stream of rumors arising from the September 11 terrorist attacks on America was momentarily disrupted by an odd story about a grisly find made by a man imbibing the contents of a bottle of Ora Potency Fruit Punch purchased in Colorado.

 

Juan Sanchez-Marchez said he discovered a penis in his drink after he had downed about two-thirds of the 20-ounce bottle. He called the local police and turned the organ over to them for further investigation. Speculation ran rampant as to the identity of the man the penis the belonged to, what might have happened to him, and how this organ came to find its way into a bottle of fruit drink. (Three Rivers Bottling LLC in New Kensington, the bottling company from which the drink came, uses a high-speed, automated process that would make it next to impossible for anyone to insert something into a bottle on the production line. The drink is sold in clear bottles that are filled, instantly capped and then inspected at the plant. It was thus unlikely any item had been casually dropped into a passing bottle.)

 

The local coroner authorized tests to make sure the find was indeed what it appeared to be: a 3-inch length of human penis, neatly severed at the end.

 

The find prompted the recall of that line of punch by the manufacturer. Production of the beverage was also halted at the bottling plant.

 

Days later the coroner's office announced the gruesome item was actually mold and not human tissue. According to them, the mold likely developed after the metal lid on the fruit punch bottle was tightened improperly, allowing air to seep through the cap. That air and the high sugar content of the drink made for an ideal climate for mold, which probably started growing from the underside of the lid.

 

As initially comforting that change in the status of things might be, further thought reveals that imbibing a liquid that a mold has been growing in isn't all that much of an improvement.

 

From:snopes.com

 

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But with that:

 

1) While mold is better than finding a penis in your fruit juice....it's still friggin mold, which is pretty disgusting in itself.

 

2) http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/punch.htm - The link, where you get a picture of it. I'm sorry but, to me, that still looks a lot more like a penis than mold.