Ok, so on Tuesday I was waiting for the bus in the city at about 7:20am or so, and I had rather sick that week, so my fiancee offered to get me something to drink. He ducked out from the queue, into night owl and got me a Solis(contains flash). Now, it has of late become my breakfast beverage of choice as it contains caffeine (although they don’t advertise it) and is non-carbonated. So, it was in one of their new plastic bottles, as opposed to the pop-top glass.
So I opened it up and took a couple of drinks, enough to make a small patch of condensation rub off the outside. My partner went “What is that, a floatie? It must be ice”, and we inspected further. It was something growing. Now keep in mind this is not a fruit juice, it is flavoured sugar water, so this was not pulp of any kind. It was about a marble sized growth, kind of like what you would find if you didn’t sterilize your bottles before making beer.
We had to get on the bus before we could go back into the Night Owl so I lugged it round with me all day before I returned there on my home trip. I found some more bottles in their fridge with this growth in them and took them up to the counter and warned the staff. I was immediately refunded while they stared in awe going “Oh my god, that is disgusting.” and they took my name and number and said they’d take it up with the Solis people.
Not one to sit on my laurels, I took it home, took some photos (horrendously bad, since I am really bad at taking photos, especially indoor close-ups on shiny objects) and rang up the Solis people. Some phone jockey said that she’d give my name and number to someone else and he would ring me in a couple of days.
Of course, no-one has rung me. I would think the ramifications of having a manufacturing defect that caused your drinks to be unsterile and grow something would be kind of high, but I have heard of no product recall. Do the wheels of quality control usually turn this slowly or should I take some other measures in the meantime? Because let’s face it, this is a public health concern, but also a great way for me to score free stuff.
You have to decide what you want, public safety or free stuff. You can’t have both. If you report it to the proper officials, then no free stuff. If you take the free stuff, then you will be agreeing not to tell anyone.
You can of course take the free stuff and still tell someone, but that is just plain unethical.
One time my brother and I found a mouse in a beer bottle, so we took it back to the brewery (which happened to be in the town we live in), and got lots of free beer. And we got to play hockey with a bunch of zombies. Cool, eh?
Why can she not tell anyone if she gets free stuff? I’ve gotten moldy/rotten food from a large corporation on more than one occasion, and all I got was coupons for free stuff and a letter. The letters had no fine print, just the look that someone at the company actualyl too the time to write it to me individually ( :rolleyes: ). They always just said something along the lines of:
“We’re sorry you found blah blah blah. We always try to have the best thingy ma-zoo. We hope you continue to ues our majoober. Thank you.”
I think they’d have to do a recall anyway (which would alert the public), whether they wanted to alert the public or not (but I haven’t checked out other stores to see if it’s a widespread problem). My bottle has started to grow again. It is growing more stuff on the old stuff.
I just said it would be unethical if she did that. They do give you free stuff so you’d shut the hell up, right? If they wanted to merely compensate for the inconvenience they would just give you your money back.
Yeah. I saw a photo of it. No wonder they had thought it was some guy’s johnson - it really did look like a shriveled wang that had been afflicted with gangrene. Creepy.
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