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Coca-Cola apologises after customer finds 'YOU RETARD' printed inside bottle cap
mail online ^ | Helen Collis

Posted on 09/20/2013 5:47:10 AM PDT by Morgana

Drinks giant Coca-Cola has apologised to a family after it found 'You Retard' printed inside a bottle cap.

Blake Loates, from Alberta, Canada, was shocked to read the insulting profanity as she drank from the low-calorie fruit drink.

'We immediately thought, you have got to be kidding me?' she told the Huffington Post Alberta.

'We thought it might been a disgruntled employee or someone in a (bottling) plant playing a joke,' she added.

Appalled, she took a photo of the lid and its printed insult and sent it to her father, Doug Loates, who immediately penned a letter to the mega-firm.

In the letter, seen by the Huffington Post, he told the company, '... the "R" word is considered a swear word in our family. We don't use it. We don't tolerate others using it around us. We ARE over-sensitive but you would be too if you had Fiona for a daughter!'

He explained that he has two young daughters, both born premature and consequently suffer disabilities, and two older daughters, including Blake, from his first marriage.

He says through his daughters he has leaned to 'give', 'care' and 'enjoy small miracles'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: retarded
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To: Morgana; All
The real reason for the bottle cap mix-up was it was supposed to be sent to the White House. Mix-up in distribution network. It was a fruit drink after all.
41 posted on 09/20/2013 6:37:34 AM PDT by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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To: ObamaMustGo2012

Its not soda. Its flavored water. And not that tasty at all.


42 posted on 09/20/2013 6:39:45 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchers?)
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To: vladimir998

Its not like it said, “YOU F****g Retard.”

That would be profanity.


43 posted on 09/20/2013 6:40:16 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchers?)
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To: Raycpa

Evidently the capping machines are printing on English Word and one French word.

Randomly printed, so the chances of this happening are (1/Total English Words)*(1/ Total French words).

In other words, it is possible, but rare. If you are talking millions of bottles it WILL happen. But picking it out of the blue would be very rare.

Now, cross that with the chances of the bottles hitting a family with two special needs kids....that’s lottery ticket rare.

Even if you had someone fooling around with the system and printing thousands of these particular caps, the chances of being bought, randomly, by a family with two special needs kids..its astronomical.

Either God is out to screw Coca-Cola....or this family is a specific target...or this guy has a cap printing machine in his basement and he is looking to make a profit. (The last option is absurd...but within the realm of probabilities.)


44 posted on 09/20/2013 6:45:57 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchers?)
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To: driftdiver; Dr. Sivana

Now that I’ve read a post from each of you two, I’m satisfied there is still decency here. I don’t need to sift through any more obnoxious posts in search of somebody who gets it. Thank you!


45 posted on 09/20/2013 6:57:20 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Dr. Sivana

It’s a word...It means a kid needs special help....and nothing more. It is neither derogatory or unkind...it is truth. This PC cr** is a waste of every ones time.


46 posted on 09/20/2013 7:00:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: driftdiver

Some uses are harmless and some are intended to insult or degrade.


I’ve never owned a bitch because all my dogs have been males.


47 posted on 09/20/2013 7:07:02 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Morgana

Maybe the person who put the message in the bottle cap was disenchanted with the American voting public. At least to his benefit, I presume, they won’t be able to track the miscreant down.


48 posted on 09/20/2013 7:13:29 AM PDT by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!")
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To: Morgana

And she is soooo upset that only a tidy sum of money will soothe her jangled nerves.


49 posted on 09/20/2013 7:34:18 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: Morgana

I thought Coca Cola meant You Retard in Chinese?


50 posted on 09/20/2013 7:35:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ratzoe
Gone are the days of “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me”

Thanks to the perpetual grievance-mongers, the new, *improved* version is 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me rich'...

the infowarrior

51 posted on 09/20/2013 7:41:50 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: Morgana
"the "R" word is considered a swear word in our family. We don't use it. We don't tolerate others using it around us. We ARE over-sensitive but you would be too if you had Fiona for a daughter!'"

Well, maybe I don't like the word "jerk." I can decide to consider it profanity, but it will not BE that. Personal dislikes cannot randomly re-define words.

Also, the outrage, the sense of being "appalled", is just too, too dramatic. My husband's aunt is mentally retarded. No one in the family has a swooning spell over the "r word."

52 posted on 09/20/2013 7:42:33 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Idiot was once used purely as a clinical term that became an insult later in the 20th century. No one today uses it in the context of a clinical definition, except maybe in an historical context. The word retard or retarded has also pretty much dropped entirely out of clinical use and is now consided an insult. For those of us who lived during this transition period, there is a lot of sensitivity about the word. The sensitivity with using the word idiot has all but vanished.


53 posted on 09/20/2013 7:47:15 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Morgana

Huffington Post: The preferred medium for thin-skinned whiners.


54 posted on 09/20/2013 8:03:05 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: driftdiver
heretic, this is FR and thats just not done here.

Please don't report me. It was a momentary lapse of judgement.

55 posted on 09/20/2013 9:57:43 AM PDT by Raycpa
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