Posted on 01/31/2009 11:12:16 AM PST by vivalaoink
Yeah, WSB (Atlanta TV) recently had an iTeam investigation into how glasses were cleaned in several hotels/motels.
It would turn your stomach.
It says he swallowed the CONTENTS, not the condom.
So, the mother thinks she has a lawsuit, which is BS. The state should take her kid away since she obviously doesn't watch him. Most mothers would at least check the room out before letting a toddler, who's every waking moment is spent trying to put things in their mouths at that age, crawl around unsupervized eating who knows what. Good thing there weren't any narcotics laying around.
“So, the mother thinks she has a lawsuit, which is BS.”
Really. How so?
Also pull up the sheets before you slide in. I used to travel a lot. Know one person who slid their feet into a pile of vomit that was under the covers at the foot of the bed.
Another person was stuck by a needle inside the sheets.
“Also, a condom is no more a “life threatening item” than an electrical outlet and their are dozens of outlets in every hotel room.”
I see where you get your chewing gum.
Some places have plastic cups now, in sealed wrapping.
But the boy did pass a condom through his digestive system, right? And this condom was saved, right? I mean, there is actual physical evidence of a boy swallowing a condom, isn't there?
Pardon my skepticism at these charges but if I was sitting on the jury and the answer to any of these questions was "no" then I'd have a hard time awarding a jackpot to the plaintiff in today's game of "Litigation Lottery." I'm guessing, though, that the plaintiffs are hoping this gets cleared up without a jury trial in the form of a nice "just go away" check from the motel.
Look it up before you go. And because this isn't a site that also sells the hotel rooms, the reviews are truthful.
Ok then, so knowing that from all your experience, would you check into a hotel and let your toddler loose without checking it out first?
The onus is on the mother, and the maid who probably didn’t see it under the bed where her crappy vacuum pushed it. And it IS the maids fault, not the hotels. She was hired and entrusted to do her job without having to be followed around and watched constantly.
Maybe she can sue the contractor who sent her.
I just had to read this right before lunch.
I guess you don’t read the article, before you post.
Once again, it isn't the condom that was 'life threatening" it was the contents. they figure he may have caught some sexually transmitted disease, aids.
He didn't swallow the condom. just the alleged contents, IF she can even prove there were any. it could have been an unused condom. That fact hasn't been established. All she has is a chewed up condom in her hands that she ASSUMED had been used, and contained jizz with aids or some other sexually transmitted disease.
She'd have to send it to a lab and pay to have it tested, even then if they discovered anything, she'd have a hard time proving she herself didn't put it there since the evidence wasn't properly handled...
Really. How so?
by Melinda
That's how so, plus the fact she wasn't watching her child.
While its up to each of us to watch out for ourselves and loved ones the mother has a reasonable expectation that the hotel room will be clean and safe. After all that is part of what she is paying for when she signs the contract to lease the room.
The maid is not an independent contractor. The hotel is liable for the cleanliness of its surroundings and the safety of its customers.
And it was, probably just as clean and safe as any room in her own home.
A condomn isn't exactly a dangerous thing. disgusting maybe, but not dangerous. And reasonably clean too. Women swallow that stuff all the time.I've never heard of a single case of poisoning via sperm, have you?
A defense lawyer will have a lot of fun with this frivolous suit.
” That’s how so, plus the fact she wasn’t watching her child.”
Nonsense
It was clean. Prove otherwise. A single condom, possibly never used, does not constitute filth, nor is it a dangerous item.
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