Woman Suing Starburst Candy - No Warning Lable That They Are Chewy

[matcom]

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Starburst Fruit Chews are exactly as their name would indicate: chewy. But one Michigan woman says the candies are so chewy, they should come with a warning label.

Victoria McArthur, of Romero, Mich., is suing Starbursts' parent company, Mars Inc., for more than $25,000 for "permanent personal injuries" she claims she sustained after biting into one of their yellow candy in 2005.

"I don't know, maybe about 3 chews and it literally locked my jaw … and it just literally pulled my jaw out of joint," she told MyFoxDetroit.com.

McArthur's lawyer, Brian Muawad, says the candies caused her to develop a condition known as temporal mandibular joint dysfunction. McArthur says she has had trouble chewing, talking and sleeping since the incident.

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,286855,00.html

[Tyler Durden]

1. She has trouble talking? THANK GOD.

Anyone that stupid...

Shit. I need to send the Starburst company a thank you note.

[snooper2]

2. how do we get whore coulter a couple to chew on...

nt

[Tyler Durden]

4. That's one HELL of a good idea.

We should send her a case with a copy of the story, the part about not being able to talk underlined.

[mitchum]

10. LMAO!!!

well done :)

[DS1]

3. the only sad news is that it didn't lock her stupid mouth shut forever

god damn some people just need killin

[skygazer]

5. Literally

God, I literally hate people who overuse the word literally. :banghead:

[mainegreen]

6. Person sues corporation because they are too stupid to function at a normal level.

Insists corporations must tell them what to do.

[EstimatedProphet]

7. "Surgeon General's Warning: Chewy"

Do we have a smilie for idiot?

[asthmaticeog]

14. .

:dunce:

[EstimatedProphet]

17. We do! Great!

[Orrex]

8. They're described as "chews" right on the freaking label!

Does she think that that means she needs to chews which flavor to eat?

:banghead:

[pitohui]

9. while the candy seems sufficiently labeled as "chews" to me...

...i'm surprised that more people are not aware of the hazards of really chewy candies, the taffies and the like can do the same thing, they can harm teeth as well as the jaw and these days that's just as expensive in some cases -- $25K for dental reconstruction is just not unknown

just not worth the risk of eating these in my humble opinion

[supernova]

11. It is possible to eat Starburst

without chewing them like a leather bit, thereby saving ones dental work.

[Lance_Boyle]

12. She's a little lass who doesn't love berries and cream?

Damn...

[Montauk6]

13. After the McDonald's burn case, I always have to ask...

Does this story depict ALL the facts?

That aside, it sound preposterous. I mean one chew into it should determine whether you want to seal the deal or spit it out. But did she, perhaps, have a pre-existing condition?

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. 'McArthur says she just wants to make sure

nobody else meets the same end she did when she decided to indulge her sweetooth. (sic)

"'I don't want to see anybody else have to go through what I have gone through from eating a piece of candy that was supposed to be soft chew,' she said."



Yeah. That's it. :eyes:

[HuffleClaw]

16. this would be a lot funnier if she said her livelihood as a sex worker was being interfered with

as the result of this.

[JVS]

18. This would have been a lot funnier had she choked to death and won a darwin award