I was in a fast food restaurant last week. There were disabled stickers on a couple of the tables with freestanding chairs (i.e., chairs not bolted to the floor). So someone in a wheelchair could sit at that table after the chair had first been moved away. Similarly, the guy in the OP could move the chair further from the table. I don’t know if White Castle has similar tables, but that would make his suit moot.
If he goes to the White Castle on Fordham Road in The Bronx, I have whacked my knee on those very same table supports. I saw stars just reading this. Of course this was years ago. It never crossed my mind to sue… And I wasn’t nearly this fat, then.
I guess the fact that he was assured they’d be adjusted is cause for him to be upset, but really. There’s a restarant near me that makes food I enjoy, but it has a metal ceiling and all hard surfaces. I can’t abide the level of noise in there. I don’t go there. I didn’t contact the management, or sue them for non-compliance. I just don’t get it. I think if you’re going to manufacture a law suit you should at least go to the trouble of fake injuring yourself.
Patronizing White Castle is not a right that’s been infringed upon. What loss has he suffered that a court needs to remedy? I hope (well, really I hope it’s thrown out before it goes before a judge, but…) that the judge verbally spanks him, and he leaves with nothing other than instructions to go through the drive-thru.
Or fat people could just, you know, eat less.
when will they start fining lawyers who bring frivolous lawsuits to the attention of the court? will there ever be a set of guidelines detailing what the court will/will not consider lawsuit worthy?
the court systems are so backed up from idiots suing over the tiniest slight they feel they were dealt that the court of law barely has time to focus on the truly important things.
Without a judge actually hearing a case, how can you say that a suit is frivolous? The famous McDonald’s hot coffee suit sounds frivolous if you hear the rough outline (woman sues because of overly hot coffee) but less frivolous once you read the details, particularly the multiple previous instances of burns due to the coffee and the extreme temperature at which it was served.
- Squeeze him into a booth, then let him sit there, wedged in, without feeding him for as long as it takes for him to lose enough weight to get out of the booth.
- Charge him for enrollment in the weight loss program, and charge him for use of the booth.
- Profit!