TV Addiction
 

http://www.wisinfo.com/thereporter/n...14044768.shtml


Just when I regain my faith in humanity something like this happens.
To sum the article up the man is going to try and sue his cable company
for making his family fat. There is no text in this world large enough or underlined enough to to write that.

The man was complaining because he was getting FREE cable.
Spiffy Has Spoken.

Bonus Quote of the day By: Something Awful
"Addiction is a serious thing. Unless its T.V. then it called being a Lardass."

The best thing about it is, he claims he got fat because of watching TV and wants free internet access for the rest of his life to compensate. I mean, most fairies who grant you three wishes get quite pissed if you use the last one to wish for three more.
>Last joke courtesy of German satire site schandmaennchen.de.<
Seriously, if you lack the self-discipline to control your TV consumption and/or the amount of food you consume, you shouldn't go around and blame other people for it. This man will convince no sensible jury in the world that watching TV is that addictive (mostly because the majority of it flat out sucks nowadays).

If I were to henceforth refer to this guy as "The Spoiled Brat", would that break any discussion rules?

Isn't that like suing tobacco companies for making you smoke or suing Coffee companies for making you caffienated?

Oh wait... no it isn't because there isn't any physical addiction!

Why doesn't he sue Peugeot for free cars because they're why he never walks anywhere? Or sue Domino's for his bed sores because they'll deliver the pizza instead of him having to get off his dead ass to get it?
This whole issue *might* point to a bigger problem, like... say, lack of responsibility? Maybe if they put a Whopper on a string just out of reach he could run a little. This is why I hate people who actually pity the obese. Unless there is a huge medical problem, there is no excuse to be as fat and lazy as these people are. They sure can get up to file suits though, can't they? These people should have their photos put on billboards to scare others into not being gluttonous fatasses. "These people clog the courts almost as badly as their arteries." But how can we fix the problem? My solution is to make all trousers over 40" bright lime green and all shirts over XL brown.

There are a lot of issues involved here. Laziness is one. This guy allowed the TV to raise his children but as soon as he realized it wasn't doing a very good job, he got angry. The article says he tried to get his cable service shut off, so they took him off the billing but didn't cut off the service. This is the basis of his complaint, but its ridiculous because all he had to do was make one simple phone call to say "hey, I wanted my cable shut off, but its not shut off and I'm not getting billed, can someone do something about it?"

Another issue is frivilous lawsuits. A quote from the article: "In our society, any kind of legal action shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone"--(Charter’s director of government and public relations for eastern Wisconsin, John Miller). It's sad that this is not a surprise!

Lastly I'd like to point out that this guy is suing for, among other things, a lifetime supply of free internet service. I don't understand how he justifies trading off cable TV for the internet.

The fact that this guy's getting a court case at all just goes to show you how stupid the justice system is sometimes. His case SHOULD be thrown out, but instead he'll probably win the damn thing and get free internet service. It's like that woman who sued McDonald's because she spilled hot coffee on herself, and now we all have to live with luke warm coffee from McD's (although McD's is the last place I'd go for coffee ANYWAY.)

The hot coffee thing was justified because it gave her third degree burns in a very short period of time (2-3 seconds or something). That McDonalds case is often simplified too much for people to realize that it goes to show that our law system makes sense.

This case is different because we're not dealing with any severe injuries.

Still, she spilled it on herself... It's like me going to a mall, pushing my little brother down on a bench so he brakes his arm, then sueing the mall for putting a bench there.

Still, I don't think coffee should give you serious injuries if you spill it on yourself.

Besides, in your case, you pushed your brother so it would be your fault anyway. It's more like if I bought some coffee, spilled it on myself and got third degree burns. Then suing the coffeemaker for selling dangerous coffee. Third degree burns are pretty bad.

Edit: In your case, it would be more like if the bench had spikes around it.

Man... I hate stupid people, but I hate FAT stupid people more.

This is coming from a man that is clinically overweight, and not really caring about it. It's my own damn fault, and I'm not going to blame it on computer companies, tv stations, or fast food chains. The reason they were put on this earth in the first place was so that life could be simplified, or made more entertaining. It's the dumb-a's that have too much fat in their head that think they can get the idea that it's other people's faults for their lack of... anything!

It's on the borderline with videogames and violence. I don't know if that's been talked about here at all, but that really ticks me off. Especially when it's the parents talking about it. The parents, too afraid to take responsibility for their actions, point their finger to the games kids play for the reason for their violent behavior, and the sad part is... PEOPLE BELIEVE THEM!!

If I was the lawyer on that case, I would say one simple thing, "You're honor... The parents have no brains, and they were not smart enough to tell the difference of pixels and people to their children. I rest my case."