Um, thanks for that lesson on synonyms and homonyms, etc. But what are you talking about?? I really cannot figure out what you are saying here. WHO is it, exactly, that you think got “scared” and “scarred” confused and how does it apply to this thread? And the reason there is no video evidence of this incident is because it would be “too scary”? Is this some attempt at humor?
“It”, BTW, was the dog attack. She had been in the hospital continuously from the time of the attack until she was discharged the day of the alleged KFC incident.
I think he thinks some people would misread the article as the girl being “scared,” rather than “scarred,” and think that she was upset and carrying on, crying, and making a lot of noise, which customers found upsetting, as opposed to finding her appearance upsetting, and not read past the title, after making an incorrect assumption.
Since the word is “scarred,” not “scared,” he’s probably wrong, but who knows? Other people could misread the word as well.
Or he thought people would misread ‘scaring’ as ‘giving scars to’ (‘scar-ing’ as opposed to ‘scare-ing’), which is totally bizarre (the word for that is ‘scarifying’) but, Hell, so was his post.
I also wouldn’t call it hush money. I would call it good PR and attempt to deflect controversy. Like I said, I don’t believe this incident happened as it has been reported, but it’s still probably a smart move on the part of KFC.
I think too that this is how people’s minds work. Grandma feels guilty for the familie’s dogs causing the incident. Wants to “protect” the kid by “defending” her against others. Even when there is no attack, just a few kids staring, the grandma makes it into an attack and overreacts. First aganst the kids, then against management, then against her own granddaughter.
With KFC donating 30.000 and volunteers donating 20.000 to the family, it seems to have paid off, too. It speaks highly for most peoples decency and the checks and balances in place that this happens so rarely.
What I would like to know, is how the grandmother got from seething in her car next to the crying girl, to a viral media campaign. Did she go to a local media outlet? Post it on Facebook? How did the media get wind of such an juicy recreational outrage story?
I think most of us here aren’t suggesting that KFC owes her money. But if you’re running KFC, and your choices are:
A) pay $30K and score some positive publicity, or
B) pay nothing and have the general public default to believing KFC is a total asshole unworthy of its customers (regardless of what actually happened that day),
We all want to think we live in a civilized society. We don’t. Three day old wounds are not scars, they are wounds, with blood and other fluids that soak through bandages.
There are self-absorbed adults and even more teens that believe their own comfort supersedes everyone elses. If a leaky dressing is within their eye sight, it needs to be banished.
Dog bites don’t get stitched up, so gaping, weepy wounds could very well make that guy who pulls in front of you on the freeway, because his time is more important than yours, complain to managment, or even confront the parent or grandparent.
Just because someone is saying they were wronged in a public place doesn’t make them attention whores, especially if they are defending the rights and well being of a beloved child.
Well, what if Wendys had just paid the lady with the finger in her chili before investigating the claim?
Not that I begrudge the little girl some help, but we should be thoughtful about it.
The girl is an innocent in this matter. If her grandmother was to blame for the events that happened, does that make her less deserving of KFC’s charity?
Sometimes they do. Sometimes they don’t, so bacteria isn’t stitched into the wound, but rather allowed to drain out, but sometimes they do get stitched up. It just depends on the wound. I know people, including my husband, who have had dog bites stitched up.
There may be isolated cases, but for the most part, servere dog bites don’t get stitched right away. They are allowed to heal and drain and prove the’re no infection. Then plastic surgery comes along and does their magic.
Having been an ER nurse for at least a quarter of my forty year career, I saw lots of bites, very few stitches, especially with small children.
Regardless, a draining wound was probably bandaged, while one with stitches may not have been, and stitches may have looked even worse than a bandage, even one that was pink-tinged. It’s hard to keep children from staring, no matter how much you tell them it isn’t polite. The girl probably was getting stared at, but if the grandmother really expected the restaurant employee to order people to leave, she was out of line. For the next couple of weeks, the girl is probably going to get stared at a lot. She might as well start dealing with it.
I’m saying that it *doesn’t *count even as being ‘more supportive’.
You already morphed the ‘somewhat supportive’ into ‘more likely’. There’s no reason for this escalation, and, the lack of video means absolutely nothing, which is much less than ‘somewhat supportive’ and ‘more likely’ in any scenario in which there are no facts.
It may mean that they hadn’t even watched it, or that they didn’t have a camera on the family. When I worked fast foods, there were no cameras on anywhere except where cash registers were.
There could be 10,000 good reasons for not firing a video all over Youtube that KFC chose to not release a video.
I read this morning that KFC paid out 30K to the family. Pretty awesome.
I really cannot figure out what you are saying here. WHO is it, exactly, that you think got “scared” and “scarred” confused and how does it apply to this thread? And the reason there is no video evidence of this incident is because it would be “too scary”? Is this some attempt at humor?