You Be Illin’: Man Issues Lawsuit Against McDonald’s For Faulty Cheeseburger
WHAT is with Americans and their right to bear a subpoena? Not too long ago a Washington judge was opening his case against a local dry cleaners he accuses of losing a pair of trousers.
The cost of his claim: $54 million. He lost the case. But he still made one.
Now a man from Morgantown, Charleston, his mother and his friend are suing McDonald’s for $10 million.
One Jeromy Jackson (crazy spelling, crazy guy), in his early 20s, claims to have ordered two Quarter Pounders with no cheese at the McDonald’s eatery in Star City. He was in a car. He gave his order via a hole in a wall.
Jackson says he bit into the first hamburger and had a severe allergic reaction to the cheese melted on it.
Blessedly, he recovered and set about revaluating his life by issuing a lawsuit against the restaurant chain. He claims he was “was only moments from death”.
He hired a lawyer. “We’re interested in seeing McDonald’s take responsibility and change a systemic quality control problem that endangers the lives of up to 12 million Americans with allergies,” says lawyer Timothy Houston.
As ever, this is not only about the victim – it’s about the campaign to improve lives for ordinary, decent people who take their lives in their hands when they at fast food.
And it is not only Jeromy who has been traumatised. His mother Trela Jackson and friend Andrew Ellifritz are parties to the lawsuit because they say they risked their lives rushing Jeromy to United Hospital Center in Clarksburg.
“By my count, he took at least five independent steps to make sure that thing had no cheese on it,” Houston says. “And it did and almost cost him his life.”
Sadly, one of these steps did not include opening the lid to his murder burger and seeing if the luminous yellow concoction beneath was the cheese he was so concerned about or just extra mustard.
But hindsight is a wonderful thing. The report goes that at least two managers at the McDonald’s called the Jacksons afterward to apologize for what happened, Houston says.
A McDonald’s representatives offered to pay half of Jeromy’s medical bills, $700. Houston was then hired and McDonald’s offered to pay all the medical costs.
The plaintiffs weren’t interested. Thy filed a claim. The lawsuit seeks damages on two counts of negligence, one count of intentional infliction of emotional distress and one count of punitive damages.
Anorak has no desire to comment on cases under consideration. We can only look on with interest and set about finding legal representation for the matter of the chicken nugget that looked like Hillary Clinton modelling George At Asda’s summer beach range…
August 11th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Well, what do you expect from the land of the ‘free’, where the Greenback is the ONLY God to worship……….
August 11th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Shhh, they’ll sue
August 11th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
I think Anorak should look seriously into hiring representation against the little wibbly-wobbly-wotsit who’s hijacked the site a couple of times.
I’ll be party to it on the grounds of personal trauma suffered through logging on and finding a someone looking back at me who bears no resemblance to how I envisage OGKM looking (think of Daniel Day Lewis in “Last of the Mohicans” i.e., - HERO with really good hair), ongoing feelings of utter insecurity caused by feelings of abandonment brought on by thinking “they’ve all effed off and left me behind”, just basic pissed-offed-ness that the geek got in the way of me saying something I wanted to say and by the time he left the arena, I’d forgotten what it was. How ’bout it?
Randie
training in full swing, Randie?
August 12th, 2007 at 2:29 am
This guy is clearly a moron, and so is his family. I mean, it’s a well known fact that McDonald’s hire teens still in school, and others of an extremely low skill set. So I would agree that if I were allergic to anything I would most definitely check to see that it’s made right before biting into it. Furthermore, this man is really asking for it, again, by eating at an establishment built upon serving the very thing that could be lethal to him; and he and his family are all (”less than intelligent”) for going there in the first place. If I were allergic to potatoes or beef, or anything like that, I certainly would not be eating at a burger ‘joint’ now, would I?
Another stupid person (people), trying to make their living defrauding our justice system with their frivolous lawsuits! Get a job & get a life! If he actually did die, this could *almost* qualify for a Darwin.
August 12th, 2007 at 8:52 am
It’s not a site hijack just a less-than-great hosting comopany. If anyone knows of a cheap hosting firm in the UK please let me know. I have a US-based host who when I pay late redirects traffic to an utterly different site called anorak.com… I asked why and was told it was “very technical”. In other words, it was human error dressed up as being too clever for idiotic me to understand…
I’ll ask my webmaster, how big do you want it?
August 12th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Oh, so its your host’s way of saying he’s got you over a barrel then? That’s kind of a nasty thing to do. Bollocks to the “very technical”, more like “pay on time or else”, like a very subtle Webstyle knee capping.
I don’t know anything about hosting companies, but what about ServerPoint.com? I think its North American though.
Training is fair dinkum, thanks for asking - downtime today though, so far anyway.
August 12th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Oh shite, (6) was from Randie, I forget that in here some times
Randie
August 12th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Shouldn’t worry, hopefully he’ll get the host sorted. But the training? am on 4 yr old elderberry wine today, sadly just one bottle left after this. But it packs a punch and if I have a liver left should be drinking fit!
Love fair dinkum as a swear word
August 12th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Me too - its just so dinkum fair, isn’t it?
Ah, the wines of the back garden - they’re supposed to be really nourishing aren’t they cos of all that stuff contained in what they come from? I’ll have to give you my recipe for potato screech. Its vile but it has more spuds to it than McDonalds chips.
Randie
August 12th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
That might be cool? tell you what shall brew more elderberry soon , and bring some, best kept til its mature, and like the TT got its kick!
August 12th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Now that sounds like a wonderful plan
I look forward to that.
R
August 12th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
OOoooo - it must be a extra-marvellous plan cos the smiley worked. How about that then? But I’m ruining the thread so I should toddle off now…
August 13th, 2007 at 8:26 am
The only thing Americans dont have an allergy to is money
August 13th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Wonderful legal system we have in the USA isn’t it? I’ve lived here a long time and it still amazes me. This kind of thing goes on all the time. It’s funny if you’re not personally involved.
I must say a word to defend my neighbours, most of the people I know here are not money crazed, gun toting, world dominating, overbearing loonies.
And really, until you’ve lived among them you really cant comment on a people.
We have our share of loonies, but Britain does too.
Let the abuse flow…..:)
August 14th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Anorak wrote: “If anyone knows of a cheap hosting firm in the UK please let me know”
Unfortunately, Anorak didn’t write how. So… “I know of a cheap hosting firm in the UK”.
And, yes, a true cheese allergy would normally require a tad of common sense. The sooner this fool eats a pound of Stinky Bishop, the better for all of us.
August 14th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
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