McDonald's remains resolute

I would hate to go through life with a serious food allergy, and I would really hate it if I was allergic to something that has a pleasant taste. But a person should not be entitled to a free ride for the rest of their life because they trusted an overworked and likely swamped fast food cook to get their special order right.

Anyone who eats fast food on a regular basis knows that if I order my Spicy Chicken Sandwich with no tomato on my number five, I will get it with tomato at least 10% of the time. Most everyone agrees that if you have such a serious reaction to cheese that you must be rushed to the emergency room to save your life, then you darn better lift the bun and inspect the sandwich and not trust your life to a 17-year old earning their first paycheck. We expect fast food loaded with grease at a cheap price, the trade off is that we won't get the same level of service or detail that we would at say,Rocco's, Red Lobster, or the Back Bay.

Today the Charleston Daily Mail has an article stating that McDonald's will stand firm and not settle the infamous $10 million dollar quarter-pounder lawsuit filed against a Morgantown McDonald's.

Good for them. If this kid had to get treatment at the hospital, I could have been sympathetic to that, and as a juror I might have awarded him damages for the medical expenses, but punitive damages and emotional distress? NO! He should have accepted McDonald's generous offer and not tried to use this as a backdoor way to someone else paying his own way.

We need to break this post-New Deal and Great Society paradigm that whenever something bad happens to someone, someone else must be forced at the barrel of the gun wielded by a government bureaucrat or activist judge to take care of them.

BTW, who is the plaintiff's attorney? It's failed Democrat candidate for the House of Delegates Timothy Houston, son of former Democrat Delegate Nancy Houston.