I’m skeptical. It makes no sense to purposely put that on what would have to be thousands of bottles. What would make sense is a defective print job that has partial sentence or a random generator sequence for a code.
Edmonton woman Blake Loates shows the Vitamin Water bottle cap she received with the words “you retard” printed on it. Coca-Cola has since apologized for the mistake, which happened because of a promotion involving both English and French words. In French, “retard” means late or delayed.
http://www.globalpost.com/photo/5939303/you-retard-bottle-cap-coke-apologizes
It was probably entered in during the software testing process for the cap printing and just never removed.
It was a fluke- all the caps were bilingual, with a random-word generator. The French word that came up was “retard”, which means “late”.
I wonder if these people are just trying to make some money, setting up a law suit?
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.)