Too Little, Too Late

Jerk agrees to give back Finger

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156286,00.html
from JoeUser Forums

The man who found the finger tip in his custard has now said he will give it back.  But Doctors noted that it is too late to re-attach it to the rightful owner.

He got his pound of flesh.  I hope when it goes to trial, that is all the jury awards him.  What he already got. The Finger.

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Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Too bad there's no legal grounds for dismissing a suit based on the plaintiff being an asshat.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
The poor store owner is gonna get it from both directions now...
We can all guess the guy who got the finger in his custard will sue, but now I forsee the employee filing suit as well....

Ahh, lawyers........
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

pretty fat finger

They 'fat fingered' the scale.

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

Too bad there's no legal grounds for dismissing a suit based on the plaintiff being an asshat.

Unlike Criminal trials, when you go for money, you have to evoke sympathy from the jury.  After this episode, I dont think he has a chance in hell.

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

The poor store owner is gonna get it from both directions now...
We can all guess the guy who got the finger in his custard will sue, but now I forsee the employee filing suit as well....

I hope you are wrong.  The poor guy had an accident.  From what I hear, it was his fault.  But I dont see it as grounds to sue, but then there has been worse.

"your Honor, There was no warning lable on the blender not to insert fingers while running".

Yep, another Stella award.

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
The guy lost his finger at the first knuckle. Did the store think it disappeared? If it was pulverized, what about the blood and chunks of flesh and bone?

The blame for losing the finger lays entirely on the store that decided to sell biohazard custard when they should have scrapped the lot and found the poor guy's finger while there was a chance.

After it has been packaged, sold, sent home, and served, you can't believe the finger hadn't frozen, encased in frozen custard.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

The guy lost his finger at the first knuckle. Did the store think it disappeared? If it was pulverized, what about the blood and chunks of flesh and bone?

Who is to say the store knew where it was lost at the time?  If you pull a bone headed stunt, are you going to run and tell someone?  Perhaps you would, but many would try to hide their stupidity.

Once the deed was discovered, and the finger found, there are enough witnesses to the fact that giving it back to the guy who lost it so that it could be re-attached was the right and decent thing to do.  Instead, this clown could only see dollars dancing in front of him.

The finder did nothing legally wrong.  He did a lot ethically and morally wrong.  And in the end, I hope the Jury considers that when he brings the lawsuit.  He was not harmed in any way.  The guy who lost the finger has paid for his stupidity with the loss of the digit.  The store I am sure has already suffered loss of sales, and if it is found that they did indeed do as you alleged, then they indeed deserve that loss.  And if there is a penalty, give it to the customers who patronized the establishment in the past.

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
The blame for losing the finger lays entirely on the store that decided to sell biohazard custard when they should have scrapped the lot and found the poor guy's finger while there was a chance.

You're still assuming that there was adequate time elapsed between the injury, notification to management, and the selling of the product when the truth is neither you nor I actually knows what the time elapsed actually was.

If the injured person rushed away without telling his co-workers what happened, and they sold the product in the small amount of time it took for the guy to tell the manager, how could the store manager possibly have prevented it?

In truth, the fault really lies with the injured employee for the product being sold to the jerk who refused to return the finger. HE should have told his co-workers about it right there on the spot.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

If the injured person rushed away without telling his co-workers what happened, and they sold the product in the small amount of time it took for the guy to tell the manager, how could the store manager possibly have prevented it?

Exactly.  We dont know the whole truth yet, but this was about the guy who found it waiting a week to offer it back.  That was just selfish and low.

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
That was just selfish and low.

I agree 100%
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm sorry, I've been sitting here for 5 minutes trying to imagine a situation where an employee cuts off a finger in a machine full of ice cream and somehow they don't notice, or forget and just send it on to be eaten. I can't.

"Thomas told WWAY that several employees tried to help the injured worker, and that a drive-thru window attendant apparently scooped custard from the bucket into a pint before being told what had happened." -Link


I think "apparently" speaks volumes. They didn't take the time to prevent it, so it "apparently" happened. This wasn't a big factory, this place had a drive through window.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top

I think "apparently" speaks volumes. They didn't take the time to prevent it, so it "apparently" happened. This wasn't a big factory, this place had a drive through window.

Well, from what you say, it appears the co-workers were trying to help the injured worker, and another, oblivious to what had happened, sold it. A comedy of errors, surely.  A conspiracy, does not appear so.

Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
To be honest I find it hard to imagine as well. My only point is neither you nor I can point a finger of fault when we weren't there and have no idea what happened or how. Obviously there was some confusion, and at least 1 employee didn't know what was happening. Ever been in one of those places? They can be very busy at times.

Personally, if I had lopped off the end of my finger, EVERYONE in the place would know it pretty damned quick.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top

I can point a finger of fault

Are we into Puns today?

Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
Are we into Puns today?

Very sharp Guy, I was wondering if anyone would catch that.