Posted on 01/04/2019 7:29:27 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
WOOD VILLAGE, Ore. - A man from Portland, Oregon says he was trapped in a Burger King bathroom for more than an hour and was promised free burger meals for life in settlement over the ordeal, but now he says BK isn’t holding up its end of the bargain, so he’s suing the fast food restaurant.
Curtis Brooner said he used the restroom at a Portland Burger King on Dec. 15. But when he tried to get out of the room, the door would not open, KOIN reported.
Brooner said he had the receipt from his meal and called the number listed on the paper for help. Employees were not able to open the door from the outside. They slid a fly swatter telling Brooner to pry the lock with that, but it didn’t work and he says he sliced his hand using the tool, KATU reported.
Brooner said that he could hear employees laughing at him while he waited to get out of the restroom, KATU reported.
A locksmith was eventually called, and Brooner was able to leave the restroom.
In the lawsuit filed this week, Brooner said that workers gave him a bandage and some ointment for his cut and offered the man a lifetime supply of Burger King meals at no cost in settlement for his predicament.
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An hour accidentally locked in—with at least access to a toilet!—and he gets burgers for life (of course, the more their burgers probably the shorter his life). Seems like a very fair deal. If the fly swatter had done the trick he’d have been out of there sooner still.
I hate how litigious we have become, but the lawsuit lottery is too tempting.
Interestingly, he isn’t going for gold here. His lawyer calculated the cost of the free meals at ~$9,000 based on a life expectancy of 72 years.
They apparently reneged on the free meal for life offer, which is what set him off.
He DID take the deal. But Burger King execs came back and said, "No deal". Probably because they'll argue the employees who made the offer had no authority to do so.
Here we are, four days into 2019, and I am pleased to see MANY FReepers are upholding a fine tradition for the new year.
If it was me, I would have demanded they give me In N Out burgers for life. Not that crap they peddle at Burger King.
No, I sure didn't. I suppose now when I die I'll go to hell and be tormented forever, alas.
A lifetime of free burgers is worth some money.
The hour he wasted was probably worth at most $100.
I’m guessing the cut was not severe and didn’t need medical attention.
Danny Court verdict $100 + any medical bills.
And BK is not on the hook for the free burgers since he sued.
Maybe, maybe not... but you certainly just outed yourself as a doofus who bloviates about something without knowing much about it, even when the information is right in front of you, and it would only take 30 seconds of effort to get a clue before you start pontificating about it.
(Which, pretty much everyone here has done from time to time, including me.)
Reminds me a Burger King contest.
First Prize: Free Whoppers for a year.
Second Prize: Free Whoppers for two years.
My wife was locked in a enclosed toilet in our room in Puerto Vallarta. It took them about 3 hours to get her out — they ended up cu ripping the doorknob out.
We got 4 free days which we used on our next trip. The full doors were gone and replaced with 3/4 glass partition swing doors.
Not as private but better than the toilet next to the shower.
Yes, but even so, I'll more-or-less stick with my original position. I'll also go so far as to say that in most cases, even where the entire article is read, there is much, much more to any story than gets presented to the public, which rarely keeps any of us from bloviating and pontificating (that's what you call it when the Pope commits Onanism) about it.
It will be cheaper for BK to give him the free meals - he won’t live that long on that diet.
Once the car dealership ran out of coffee, I complained, and the cashier told me I could have any car on the lot for free in compensation.
Funny, but when I tried to collect, the sales manager said she didn't have the authority to do that.
During my career we had to open restroom doors on a couple of occasions. They were at coffee shops both times. It was not the management’s fault, it appeared that either customers had somehow vandalized the door locks or they had just failed for some reason. The people trapped were just happy to be let out; no one even thought of suing that I am aware.
I’m shocked the restroom door even closed in the first place.
“No, I sure didn’t. I suppose now when I die I’ll go to hell and be tormented forever, alas.”
Nah. You confessed, so you’ll be fine now.
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