James Macungie recently filed a lawsuit against Google. Mr. Macungie alleges that their contextual ad, promising one weird old tip to lose belly fat, did not work as advertised. The tip, according to documents filed in the Norther District of South Dakota, was to drink two glasses of water before every meal.
After years of having what doctors called “an offensive percentage of body fat,” Mr. Macungie was browsing the Internet one night looking for exercise advice. He stumbled onto a blog that used contextual ads sponsored by the search giant. The ad, pictured to the right, promised that those who clicked could lose a bit of their belly every day by following one weird old tip.
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What is wrong with Europe today? I’m not talking about the giant mess that is their economy or why some of their leaders sound like entries in the urban dictionary (read Merkel). Nor am I talking about why dead bodies are turning up on royal property. I’m not even talking about why Pippa Middleton hasn’t called me back yet. Seriously though, holla at me Pippa. No, what is really weird is why they are trying to become American with crazy lawsuits. Stupid lawsuits are as American as apple pie. Now they’ve gone international. I present to you Idiotic Legal News, European edition.
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We want to bring you happy news, we really do. Funny happy news, at least on a Friday. But we end up finding things that are downright depressingly odd, things that make you chuckle at first but then gag a little bit later. So, we clean it up a little today and eliminate the usual crowd of dumb people doing really dumb things. Really fucked up things. Today, just teenagers making their own YouTube confessions, greased pig laws, freeing the banana man, and how not try to pull off a professional hit. It’s happy hour law review for Friday, September 23, 2011.
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File this under Bitter Lawyer’s lawsuit of the week. A New York man brought a civil rights claim against White Castle last week, claiming the restaurant chain made him fat did not reasonably accommodate his own White Castle legacy. While the complaint really doesn’t say what disability or impairment the man has, you can infer it is one of two things: 1) he is a large man or 2) he attends both Yankees and Mets games. It may be a combination of both, but from what we can best determine it’s a claim of being too big to fit into a White Castle restaurant booth.
Before we get started, here’s the complaint to review. As a tip, skip over the legal mumbo jumbo and go straight to the exhibits, a series of letters between the plaintiff and White Castle. Here’s the pertinent text of the plaintiff’s letter, which lays out the origin of the dispute:
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