Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

**TummieGaruda** · 2013-07-01 01:53

Originally Posted by MaachaQ

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...icle-1.1380903

Runaway shopping cart kills Chinese woman in supermarket in freak accident

A few Targets out where I live are two story and they have a special escalator in the middle for grocery carts to go up and down. You just push it into the escalator and it has blocks to hold it in place and keep it from running away.

**Kerberoz** · 2013-07-01 03:25

http://consumerist.com/2011/02/18/ma...t-to-eat-rice/

Man Sues All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Joint Because He Didn't Want To Eat Rice

The plaintiff went into the restaurant to take advantage of its $28 all-you-can-eat sushi offer. But when the man began only eating the raw fish and leaving the rice behind, the restaurant’s owner informed him that he’d have to eat the rice too, since sushi, by definition, always includes rice. Raw fish on its own is sashimi.

The diner replied that he can’t eat the rice because he has diabetes. The owner offered to sell him two orders of sashimi for $25, $3 less than the sushi deal, but the man declined.

Instead, he left after paying a la carte prices for the sushi he’d picked at.

Two weeks later, it was lawsuit time.

The man seeks at least $4,000 in damages for the “humiliation, embarrassment and mental anguish” he claimed to have suffered after being discriminated against “on the basis of his disability.” The L.A. Times reports that he’s offered to drop the suit in return for a payment of $6,000.

**Blubbartron** · 2013-07-01 04:30

Wait, so, he's suing for 4k, but offered to drop the lawsuit for 6k? Isn't that the reverse of how these things usually go?

**Nephlite** · 2013-07-01 07:32

Sue and win 4k, ruin the reputation of the establishment. Pay up 6k and it gets swept under the table. Simple politics.

**Sepukku** · 2013-07-01 08:32

its a pretty valid case too, if ADA is found to apply. Anything you'd allow/permit/give/etcverbs to someone ordinary, you have to give/allow/permit/etcverbs to someone with a disability with reasonable accommodations. For example, having type 1 diabetes, since my employer allows people to eat on the clock, at their desks, outside of their lunch break, my employer has to let me test my blood sugar / take insulin / etc without clocking out as its a requirement in order for me too to eat at my desk outside of my lunch break.

If the gentleman is providing patrons with another dish of sushi after they finish everything on a previous dish, if ADA is found to apply, then he has to provide another dish to a diabetic patron after they finish everything but the white rice. Even if ADA isn't found to apply, hes still fucked cause his restaurant is gonna get PR blasted for it.

**Kerberoz** · 2013-07-01 09:21

...except that's not how diabetes works. He's just a greedy fatfuck.

**Sepukku** · 2013-07-01 09:28

really? fish have carbohydrates in them? News to me....

Spoiler: show

**SamanosukeShiva** · 2013-07-01 09:35

It's not a big deal for the restaurant, after his case is dropped I'd say counter sue and have the fatty pay the legal fee. As a person who works at restaurants, we get dumbfucks like those all the time.

**Kerberoz** · 2013-07-01 09:36

Yes, wanting to eat all the fish is gluttonous.

**SamanosukeShiva** · 2013-07-01 09:42

The guy probably thought he's a fucking genius and found a loophole to get all you can eat sashimi. That's not how it works.

**Sepukku** · 2013-07-01 09:48

Originally Posted by Kerberoz

Yes, wanting to eat all the fish is gluttonous.

Well the argument is irrelevant then, your problem is with someone wanting to eat a lot at an all you can eat buffet, the item being eaten and the condition of the patron apparently are not relevant. In your mind, anyone going to any all you can eat buffet is a greedy fatfuck. Patrons usually go to all you can eat buffets to eat a lot, to expect anyone to want to do otherwise is silly. Which brings me back to the original exception I had with your comment that somehow him being a diabetic makes him a fatfuck for trying to eat fish at an all you can eat buffet. His blood sugar would not have changed from eating fish in any quantity nor are fish a terrible option to eat. You were dismissively blaming this issue on him making poor choices as a diabetic which isn't true. Choosing to eat fish is not a poor choice nor is choosing to eat fish with blood sugar issues a poor choice - the issue is him choosing to eat a ton of food, which would be equally bad for anyone of any health to consume that overall calorie amount. You however linked it to his diabetes which comes across as pretty discriminatory, no worse than casually attributing a car wreck to a driver being asian or to a fight breaking out simply because one of the people was black and lacked self control.

**Pharaun** · 2013-07-01 09:55

You trying to say that diabetes should qualify for ADA protection at an all you can eat sushi joint is just fucking retarded. Giving him all he could eat sashimi instead is not a reasonable accommodation at all. Gotta agree with Kerb on this, the dude is just a greedy fatfuck.

**BaneTheBrawler** · 2013-07-01 09:57

too many unknowns to really say if i think this guy makes the rest of us with invisible disabilities look bad or not. odds are, though, that he does.

**SamanosukeShiva** · 2013-07-01 09:57

Him having diabetes doesn't change the all you can eat sushi rule which requires the person to eat the rice portion as well, if he can't eat the rice then he should've find a place that have all you can eat sashimi. It's a perfectly normal rule for buffet, in fact a lot of buffet restaurant charges extra if you don't finish your food.

**Kerberoz** · 2013-07-01 09:58

Originally Posted by Sepukku

Well the argument is irrelevant then, your problem is with someone wanting to eat a lot at an all you can eat buffet, the item being eaten and the condition of the patron apparently are not relevant. In your mind, anyone going to any all you can eat buffet is a greedy fatfuck. Patrons usually go to all you can eat buffets to eat a lot, to expect anyone to want to do otherwise is silly. Which brings me back to the original exception I had with your comment that somehow him being a diabetic makes him a fatfuck for trying to eat fish at an all you can eat buffet. His blood sugar would not have changed from eating fish in any quantity nor are fish a terrible option to eat. You were dismissively blaming this issue on him making poor choices as a diabetic which isn't true. Choosing to eat fish is not a poor choice nor is choosing to eat fish with blood sugar issues a poor choice - the issue is him choosing to eat a ton of food, which would be equally bad for anyone of any health to consume that overall calorie amount. You however linked it to his diabetes which comes across as pretty discriminatory, no worse than casually attributing a car wreck to a driver being asian or to a fight breaking out simply because one of the people was black and lacked self control.

lolwut

Am I being wooshed?

The guy was using his (alleged) diabetes as an excuse to circumvent the rules. Diabetes does not work that way. How the fuck is pointing that out being discriminatory? Keep wailing on that strawman.

**RKenshin** · 2013-07-01 10:02

I don't think there is any all-you-can-eat situation where a restaurant would be OK with you throwing away half your meal, while continuing to get more servings... regardless of the circumstances.

It'd be like having all-you-can-eat breakfast, and just getting 500 blueberry muffins, picking out only blueberries, and then throwing away the other 90% of the muffin and being like "oh yeah, sorry, the rest of the muffin is bad for my condition."

Pretty ridiculous precedent to set.

**SamanosukeShiva** · 2013-07-01 10:05

^ 1000x

**bluefan** · 2013-07-01 10:13

The guy was offered sashimi... How is that the establishment not reasonably accommodating the fat fuck?

**Odin'sLaw** · 2013-07-01 10:15

Originally Posted by bluefan

The guy was offered sashimi... How is that the establishment not reasonably accommodating the fat fuck?

it was even offered at a lower price then the Sushi deal as well :/

**Rabidelly** · 2013-07-01 12:10

Being diabetic doesn't necessarily qualify someone as a "fat fuck". Is he type 1? Is he one of those unlucky skinny type 2's? Is he being greedy? I'd say yes to the last at least.

I'm type 1 myself, and guess what, I go to buffets and eat my food. I also avoid the rice, but I do eat the sushi (rice and all). If he was that worried about his current blood sugar he could have A) not eaten there or B) increased his insulin to account for it. Granted that goes out the window if he's type 2, in which case increasing insulin won't necessarily help. Of interesting side note, even if he ate ONLY the fish, if he ate enough of it, his blood sugar would be affected. Tried eating mostly meat at Fire+Ice and several hours later was puking my brains out with a super high blood sugar

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