Dumb Lawsuits
From
BBC News/Scotland:
bq. Chef sues hotel over cut finger
bq. A chef who cut his finger is suing a hotel for £25,000 compensation by claiming no-one warned him about the danger posed by an avocado.
bq. Michael McCarthy, 21, sliced into his hand when the unripened avocado he was trying to cut slipped and he lost control of his kitchen knife.
bq. He claims he had been shown how to cut the fruit, but had not been told the avocado might not be ripe.
and more:
bq. Mr McCarthy, from Blairgowrie, said the accident killed his dream of becoming an RAF chef and forced him to pursue another career.
What do you call 100 lawyers lying dead at the foot of a cliff?
A good start... (pa-dum)
Posted by DaveH at January 4, 2004 9:47 PM