Rep. Kucinich sues over olive pit in sandwich (for $150,000)

SFGate.com ^ | 1/26/11 | Andrew Miga - ap

[TheOldLady]

IT WASN'T ME!

[paulycy]

[Darren McCarty]

Three years after the fact for a tort negligence or product liability claim? My first reaction was statute of limitations but it is 3 years after the fact.

The problem with this claim is that I bet it will be settled for a lower amount. Dennis gets his cut, and the liability insurance industry stays in business with their premiums. I'd like to see the $150K injuries from this. Even cores/crowns are under 2K.

[ReverendJames]

Of course then he’ll sue the olive packer, the jar or can manufacturer it came in, then there’s the olive producer producing a dangerous product with no warning label then of course the trucking company; not to mention the person who made the sammich, - need I go on???

[jesseam]

Re: Democrats being Democrats.

Amen to that.

[Hot Tabasco]

Maybe he’s thinking of using the payoff to fund an ear job.......

[Daffynition]

You could drive the Queen Mary through that opening! LOL

Let’s see. Taxpayer’s provide him with the dental insurance............taxpayers subsidize the congressional cafeteria ............WHOA! We’ve just been sued folks.

>>unwholesome food???<< .. I thought Mediterranean diets were healthy...what will Moochelle say? I’ll wait for her definitive comment.

[paulycy]

Let’s see. Taxpayer’s provide him with the dental insurance............taxpayers subsidize the congressional cafeteria ............WHOA! We’ve just been sued folks.

Taxpayers pay his salary that pays for the lawyer, etc. etc. etc...

[HollyB]

Did you hear about this one?

[HollyB]

It’s one thing to have the costs of the dental work covered, but $150,000. But, I’m sure Kucinich has a golden dental plan to cover the expenses.

[Slings and Arrows]

Let me tune up my banjo...

[Cementjungle]

I bit into a “breakfast sandwich” from a local convenience store that had something very hard in it; that something broke one of my molars, and the resulting repair, which operation involved a root-canal and a cap, cost more than $2000. It never occurred to me to sue. What a fool I am.

While in Costa Rica last October I broke a molar on a frozen Milky Way bar. I should sue myself for putting the candy in the freezer. Fortunalely a new crown down there was only $500 (porcelain crown, 24-hour turnaround).

[Mier]

The House cafeteria was privatized a few years back. That’s the real reason this tin foil hat wearing commie wants to sue!!