iPod owner sues Apple.
Posted by Chris Leckness on 02/2/06 in Music Players
OK, if you buy coffee don’t you expect it to be hot?
If you buy a knife, do you assume it could cut you?
So if you buy a music player and cram the buds in your ear and crank it up, do you expect hearing loss? ugh, ya!
We’ve know for a couple years now that LOUD MUSIC can damage your hearing. Just as I know, even though I don’t drink coffee, that its damn hot. So why do you sue McDonald’s when you spill your hot coffee?
"A disgruntled iPod owner has filed a lawsuit against Apple, claiming the device causes hearing loss and that the company does not properly warn users of this danger.
iPods are “inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss”, according to the complaint, which was filed yesterday on behalf of John Kiel Patterson in US District Court in San Jose, California.
The owner, according to iPod website ilounge.com, seeks class action status, demands compensation for unspecified plaintiffs’ damages and upgrades to make iPods safer to use."
Source : Pocket-link.co.uk
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you have GOT to be kidding?? I have to say, only in the US :) its people like this who give stupid people a bad name, wasting the courts/peoples time with pointness lawsuits, and all because they know the company in question will settle rather than mess around in court for weeks on end… so its a quick cash grab, and the only real cost is publicly proclaiming how big a tool you are :)
Bru… angry since ‘92
This is typical, and should be expected in todays world.
It’s ALWAYS someone elses fault.
No person should EVER be responsible for their own actions.
This is AMERICA.
This is OUR RIGHT.
…right….??
Yet more proof that personal responsibility is dead in this country…I hope that Apple fights this every step of the way and that the lawyers cream the idiot on the stand (and anyone else stupid enough to join the class action).
Actually, I used to talk just as bad about the grandmom who sued McDonald’s over the hot coffee. But if you ever actually read the facts of the case, you’ll rethink the whole thing. Poor woman wasn’t trying to fix her coffee in her lap, and didn’t sue for as much as was awarded - only for actual hospital bills - she received bad 3rd degree burns. The jury was outraged when they heard the whole story (and actually, so was I!), and over-awarded - which the judge reversed almost immediately, and the woman only received actual damages and a very reasonable punitive award, plus those ever-present legal fees. But in this case, McDonald’s really was pretty sucky about the whole thing.