The coporation was probably added because that’s what her lawyer said she should do. Name everybody as a defendant and you’re more likely to get someone who is willing to cough up a few bucks to make the thing go away. This is how gun manufacturers ended up on lawsuits for wrongful deaths. Find a bucks-up defendant and then fabricate the argument to show culpability. SOP.
I see. So inviting others to go to bugmenot.com to bypass registration is also verboten?
Back to the thread, the more I think about this, the more I wonder if it’s a scam. When I was a waitress, all the drinks (except the sodas) came from the bar, but the bartenders would never mix up an alcoholic drink and then pour it into a kid’s cup. And how does a mother define a five-year-old as erratic? Giggly? That’s normal for a five-year-old, especially when they’re in a fun new place. I know my kids are generally hyped up after we take them out to dinner.
I will reserve my shock and outrage until more info is gathered.
Not as yet listed in the suit:[ul][]Duffy’s Vodka Distilleries[]Internationa Gin Corporation[]Harpo’s Light Well Rum Importers[]NotVarnish Tequilaa Co. of Mexico[]Canada Dry Bottling[]Curacoa Inc.[]The Coca-Cola Company[]U-Need-A Barware distributors[*]Leisure Time Ice Company[/ul]
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Not as yet listed in the suit:[ul][li]Duffy’s Vodka Distilleries[]Internationa Gin Corporation[]Harpo’s Light Well Rum Importers[]NotVarnish Tequilaa Co. of Mexico[]Canada Dry Bottling[]Curacoa Inc.[]The Coca-Cola Company[]U-Need-A Barware distributors[]Leisure Time Ice Company[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
You forgot Sitwell Straws, Ltd.
If the story turns out to be false, I think you’ve explained why the mom hit on Long Island Iced Tea-more companies to sue!
Indeed, she would then be a soulmate of my father’s cousin. BTW, the amount needed to get a (pretty skinny) 5-year-old drunk: 1½ Manhattans, on the rocks.
That was my thought as well, and though the whole thing sounds unlikely, a server doing it intentionally is easier to swallow than it being a mistake.
Someone here got pitted for their supposed treatment of rude customers, but swore he wouldn’t take a parent’s behavior out on their kid(s). I’m sure there are others who would if the mother was a bitch to them while assisting her.
The King of Soup, five-year-olds aren’t toddlers. A one or two-year-old is a toddler and little therefore more than a infant, but by kindergarten age many kids are old enough to do as they’re told, even if it means eating or drinking something they don’t like. At just a little older than that I was made to eat broccoli and liver -both of which I hated- and though I cried, eat it I did.
Sure, but how often are juices served with ice? IME, not very often.
Kids aren’t usually born talking, four and a half feet tall and 72 pounds? You know, I thought my wife’s labor culminating her two pregnancies (three babies in twelve and a half months! Whee!) was awfully long. Well, that explains my lack of understanding when it comes to toddlers. Nonetheless, it was the mother’s behavior that I was questioning, not the kid’s. I’ll leave your inevitable discovery of the potential willfulness of a five-year-old to the fullness of time and your own family.
My tenderest sympathies. Now finish your spinach.
I think the whole thing is bogus. And IF this child did indeed become intoxicated, the mother shouldn’t sue.
As to the nurses bit: I am not an ER nurse, but I can say that we nurse do laugh often at work–but NOT AT THE PTS EXPENSE–even when we want to, badly.
So, if the nurses were “giggling” (ugh-what are we, 12?)–it was NOT a the Kindergartner.
And just how big were these sips? Is English these people’s first language? How big was the sippy cup? My 5 year olds never used sippies at that age–they gave those up in preschool.
So many unanswered questions…
Yeah, yeah, an’ anuddah t’ing …
Has anyone here ever met the waitress that would intentionally create the hassle at one of her own tables that serving alcohol to a five-year-old might cause? Didn’t think so. A bartender who hated the waitress enough to intentionally cause this problem even though he probably had no knowledge of the customer and there was a good chance that he (being in charge of everything alcoholic) would get blamed? Didn’t think so.
And in my experience, Long Island Iced Tea is not clear. In fact, it’s medium-dark. In fact, it’s made with cola. Which is carbonated, which is why the drink is made one at a time, not in a pitcher (unless the pitcher has been purchased by a table, and that doesn’t happen, and if it did the pitcher wouldn’t be sitting on the bar), which it wouldn’t do anyhow because whether or not it looks like apple juice, it sure as hell looks like – there will be a brief pause here while the poster recovers his composure – iced tea. So I’m not buying the accident theory either.
It should also be pointed out that if the nurses were unprofessional enough to tease or laugh at a 5 year old (a prospect which is unlikely in the extreme) then the mother’s grievance for “psychological trauma” would be against the hospital, not against the restaurant.
Everything this mom is saying sounds like bullshit. I’d bet anything the nurses were just trying to be friendly to the kid and maybe laughed at something he said, not because he was “drunk” (which I doubt he really was) but because they were trying to make him feel good. That’s what you do with kids in situations like that. You try to be light and you laugh at their dumb jokes. It’s like an automatic instinct for people who work with a lot of children.
I’d really like to know: is there an entire class of people whose minds are constantly trying to churn up some way to file lawsuits against large corporations as a means of lining their pockets? I mean, to me this is - inconceivable!
Yet, I believe that’s exactly what this situation will prove to be. :dubious:
Every time someone files suit for some ridiculous perceived slight, we run around saying “Everyone’s suing! Everyone’s suing! We’re going to hell in a handbasket!”
You know, there aren’t that many crazy lawsuits out there, that receive public attention at least.
There may not be a lot of these suits out there, but all of them catch some media person’s attention and they get blown all out of proportion so that it seems like there are more of them. People still talk about the McD’s drive thru coffee incident from, like, 10 years ago.
That wasn’t even a crazy lawsuit. The coffee was much hotter than any coffee you would make at home or buy at any competing restaurant, far too hot to be reasonably safe. It caused serious burns on the lady’s nether regions. The case got a lot of play as “some idiot spilled her coffee in her lap and sued McDonald’s”–but the real story is that McDonald’s gave an old grandma a loaded weapon with the safety turned off.
The mom has said that the server was becoming increasingly agitated while junior was trying to decide what he wanted to drink.