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Professor sues Walmart over ‘toilet cleaner’ on fishing license
The New York Post ^ | April 17, 2017 | Max Jaeger

Posted on 04/17/2017 4:30:44 PM PDT by cweese

Wal-Mart really soiled his reputation.

A Montana professor is suing Wal-Mart for libel because an employee listed the academic’s occupation as “toilet cleaner” on a fishing license application.

Montana State University assistant professor Gilbert Kalonde bought a state fishing license from a Wal-Mart in April 2015, and a store employee used Kalonde’s MSU I.D. when filling out an application form, according to a complaint filed in Gallatin County District Court.

But when the employee entered Kalonde’s occupation into a computer database, he wrote that the professor “cleans toilets,” the complaint charges.

The incident exposed Kalonde to “hatred, contempt [and] ridicule,” the suit claims.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fishing; localnews; toilet; walmart
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To: cweese

The incident exposed Kalonde to “hatred, contempt [and] ridicule....

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What? From the fish? Who would be looking at this guy’s fishing license, anyway?


21 posted on 04/17/2017 5:26:02 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: TaxPayer2000

Yep


22 posted on 04/17/2017 5:26:21 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
So who are all these people he is sharing his fishing license with that treat him with such contempt?

Exactly. He must be showing it to everyone he meets.

23 posted on 04/17/2017 5:28:25 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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To: cweese

That’s an insult. Custodial personnel are in an honest profession that contributes to society, unlike this twit.


24 posted on 04/17/2017 5:38:09 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5, 2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

THE FISH ARE LAUGHING AT ME
THE FISH ARE LAUGHING AT ME
THE FISH ARE LAUGHING AT ME
THE FISH ARE LAUGHING AT ME


25 posted on 04/17/2017 5:43:56 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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Montana Faculty Page

26 posted on 04/17/2017 5:44:33 PM PDT by deport
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Earlier Posting with 106 comments at this time


27 posted on 04/17/2017 5:46:51 PM PDT by deport
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To: TaxPayer2000

Anyone that cleans toilets is doing a valueble service to mankind and should be held in the highest esteem!


28 posted on 04/17/2017 6:07:00 PM PDT by Rock N Jones
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To: cweese

Aw geezus! From my alma mater!


29 posted on 04/17/2017 6:51:32 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: cweese

I’ve cleaned my toilet before. Never felt insecure about it.


30 posted on 04/17/2017 6:53:23 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan: http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: cweese

It should have read: “poop pusher”.


31 posted on 04/17/2017 7:16:55 PM PDT by PTBAA
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To: PTBAA
It should have read: “poop pusher”.

So, that is how to spell professor.

32 posted on 04/17/2017 7:38:26 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: cweese

If I were the judge I would find for him, award him one dollar and tell him next time fill out his own license instead of making the store clerk do it.


33 posted on 04/17/2017 7:48:12 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: depressed in 06

These days I view toilet cleaners to be a more honorable and higher calling than Professors.

Just sayin’... Too many Prof’s these days ruin the minds of young people by indoctrinating them into radicalized leftist fold rather than help to give them an education they can actually use. In a just and perfect world these indoctrinators would yanked out by the root and banned from ever teaching again. Sadly we don’t live in that just and perfect world...

Besides; they would probably just work for Huffpo, the NYT, or Wapo (etc. etc.) shoveling their same brand of manure to a larger audience.


34 posted on 04/17/2017 8:58:33 PM PDT by Boomer (The MSM and Radicalized Dem Party are One and the SAME!)
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To: cweese

Hydro-ceramic Engineer


35 posted on 04/17/2017 9:29:10 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: headstamp 2

Hydrodynamical and hydrological.


36 posted on 04/17/2017 10:25:07 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: cweese

At least it didn’t continue “...with tongue.”

I see I’m not the only FReeper wondering WTH that piece of information is deemed pertinent to a fishing license, anyway.


37 posted on 04/18/2017 2:47:18 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: beelzepug

Do they demand photo ID to ensure all the info matches? (I’ve never applied for a fishing/hunting permit, so wouldn’t know.)

I thought it was all about the fee collected, not the detailed identity info.


38 posted on 04/18/2017 2:51:56 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: cweese

fta... The incident exposed Kalonde to “hatred, contempt [and] ridicule,” the suit claims.
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How would anyone know what was on his fishing license unless he started showing others?


39 posted on 04/18/2017 3:09:22 AM PDT by octex
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To: cweese

I think that’s funny as hell.


40 posted on 04/18/2017 4:09:07 AM PDT by Gaffer
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