Legally Blonde
By brian | Posted on December 20, 2008 | Filed Under Personal Injury
Negligence cases against businesses are always a hot stop for an “average joe” to get a little money. Everyone is familiar with famous lawsuits like the McDonalds coffee case. As time goes on, more and more ridiculous cases arise, giving people the confidence that they can win almost anything…until it goes too far.
Well say hello to a “brilliant blonde” from Stratford, Connecticut, who bought a bottle of L’Oreal hair dye which she thought to be blonde but turned out to be brunette. Somehow, she didn’t realize the dye was brown until after she used it.
When someone asked “why don’t you just die your hair back to being blonde?” she claimed that “it wouldn’t give her her natural hair color back”……wait…..if she was looking for a natural color why was she dying it in the first place then, but then again, I’m not one to judge.
Her statements in court read:
“I can never go back to my natural blonde hair, I feel fake about that. Also blondes do get more attention than brunettes. Of course, emotionally, I miss that.”
“I was sick to my stomach, I had headaches, I don’t like myself, I stay home more than ever in my life, I wear hats most of the time.”
The young lady claimed that her emotional distress was so bad that she went to the doctor and was prescribed anti-depressant medication. Luckily, Judge Richard Gilardi dismissed the case, saving the American legal system the embarrassment of awarding this young lady anything at all.
Judge Gilardi responded to the media by saying “the plaintiff submitted no facts, no opinions and no standards to substantiate either of the allegations.”
Lesson to be learned: if you are going to sue, make sure the opposing entity did something wrong and you have at least a shred of evidence to prove that.
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