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McDonald’s Ordered To Pay $27 Million For Teens’ Deaths
cbs ^ | 7-30-2014

Posted on 07/31/2014 5:51:30 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

College students Denton Ward, 18, from Flower Mound, and Lauren Crisp, 19, of Dripping Springs, were killed shortly after stopping at a College Station McDonald’s in the early morning hours of February 18, 2012.

Ward and another male friend were attacked in the McDonald’s parking lot by a mob of 15 to 20 people.

When Ward’s friends, including Crisp, loaded into a car to rush him to the hospital, the driver ran a red light and they were involved in a crash with a pickup truck.  Crisp was killed in the crash.

The teens’ families sued McDonald’s, claiming that the restaurant neglected to provide late-night security even though police had been called more than 20 times that year to break up fights at that location.

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1 posted on 07/31/2014 5:51:30 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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Sympathetic jury wanting to do “something” for the victims’ families...and lawyers going after the deepest pockets. This will be tossed, or greatly reduced, on appeal..


2 posted on 07/31/2014 5:55:39 AM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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Since when is McDonald's or any other fast food venue required to be in the security business?
No mention of the identity of the mob members or any culpability on their part.

3 posted on 07/31/2014 6:00:55 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Citizen Zed

Wonder why McDonald?

Why don’t they sue the manufacturer of the pickup truck?

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4 posted on 07/31/2014 6:02:33 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Who has the bigger pockets?


5 posted on 07/31/2014 6:03:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ken5050

All the money in the world won’t bring someone back to life and it is a tragedy but at one point you have to ask yourself would any amount of security have thwarted a feral attack in this day and age? Probably not. Security guards aren’t respected. They’re barely a detterent.


6 posted on 07/31/2014 6:04:06 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Citizen Zed

I’d like to sue them over that crappy slop they sell as the Big Mac. Absolute worst burger of all the fast food chains.


7 posted on 07/31/2014 6:05:08 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Citizen Zed

I know there are some stupid, ignorant people in America, but after this verdict and the Ventura verdict, how in the hell do they continue to get twelve of them altogether, at one time?

I mean, these two verdicts take a leap of faith, a shot of something out of Harry Potter, and two HUGE blinders to get to these conclusions!

WTF is happening in America?!?!


8 posted on 07/31/2014 6:08:30 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Why don’t they sue the manufacturer of the pickup truck?

How about the manufacturer of the traffic signal?

9 posted on 07/31/2014 6:09:09 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Citizen Zed

Simple solution, all McDs have to do is to have a sign declaring the store a “mob free” zone.

Easy, isn’t it?


10 posted on 07/31/2014 6:09:49 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Denton Ward: Dead

Marcus Jamal Jones: Arrested

Hmmm...no photograph available or included in any of the stories about his arrest for the beating of Denton Ward. I wonder why that is?

11 posted on 07/31/2014 6:11:04 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man. I am a living legacy to the leader of the band.)
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>> Security guards aren’t respected. They’re barely a deterrent.

That was the case 20 years ago at our nice suburban swim and tennis in a good neighborhood. Kids showing up to hang out and party in the parking lot would thumb their noses at a private security guard. They might mosey on, but they really weren’t worried about the guy.

Then we started hiring off-duty cops with arrest powers. First time he got crap from the kids he was running off (who had throw out a bunch of trash in the lot, breaking a bottle, and given the off-duty cop a FU, IIRC), a couple of them got arrested, mommy and daddy had to bail out the kiddies, and the problem stopped.


12 posted on 07/31/2014 6:11:11 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Citizen Zed

It’s the Moons fault. Didn’t provide enough evening light. Sue the moon.


13 posted on 07/31/2014 6:11:33 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: ExTxMarine

The mentality is that anyone that has accumulated any wealth needs to be targeted for confiscation and punishment.

This mentality has become ubiquitous in our society, and yes, it’s because of liberals.


14 posted on 07/31/2014 6:11:42 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Citizen Zed

Are there no nightime cops on patrol in CS?


15 posted on 07/31/2014 6:13:12 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Ward and another male friend were attacked in the McDonald’s parking lot by a mob of 15 to 20 people.

This makes me want to violate FR's profanity standards.

16 posted on 07/31/2014 6:13:49 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: ExTxMarine
The Ventura verdict was correct. The issue is NOT whether the incident took place. No matter how much Jessie tries to get that erased, it DID happen. However, the issue the jury had to decide was whether Ventura was defamed and suffered financial loss because of the story as published in Chris Kyle's book. He did.

On the bright side, the damage is irreparable. Plus, the award will likely be reduced on appeal and, based on the sales of the book, it will amount to chump change for Chris Kyle's widow.

17 posted on 07/31/2014 6:16:16 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man. I am a living legacy to the leader of the band.)
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To: Citizen Zed

As conservative as Texas is, it still has a tort system that makes these illogical, “Jackpot” verdicts possible. As others have posted, you get a bunch of jurors who vote on emotion rather than logic and you end up with the absurd result that McDonalds is 97% liable and the actual murderers are 3% liable. Its not like this kid slipped on a wet floor and cracked his head open and died. He was killed. The only — only — way you get to a result of it being 97% McDonalds’ fault is if you permit people to simply assign blame based on ability to pay. Hell. Why not get a list of stockholders of McDonalds, find the richest ones, and sue them too. Why not award the family a billion dollars?


18 posted on 07/31/2014 6:20:42 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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I’m waiting for the story of the employee, forced to be unarmed due to his/her workplace, “No Guns,” policy, robbed, beaten or killed while heading out to his/her car before or after work...

And the employer gets sued by the victim for removing his/her right to defend him/herself, and having inadequate security.


19 posted on 07/31/2014 6:22:39 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
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To: tflabo

The big mac is OK, but that disgusting pink/orange/I-don’t-know-WHAT-color-it-is dressing/sauce/goop is just plain sickening.


20 posted on 07/31/2014 6:22:55 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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