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  • #1

    One I forgot: They killed our shopping cart

    I walked outside to bring the baskets in and grab shopping carts and there was a big group of kids outside. Two girls were in a shopping cart being pushed around by their friend. Two guys jumped in their car and started driving in circles around them, really fast. My manager came out and we watched a moment and both agreed someone was going to get hurt.

    Fast forward half an hour and suddenly there are flashing lights outside. I didn't see it happen, but went out to see what was going on. Apparently the car had hit the cart with the girls in it. They were bruised and scraped up and it looked like one had a broken leg. My manager asked to file a report for property damage for the crushed cart because she didn't want anything coming back to us. You know like the stupid, this coffee is too hot and I spilled it on myself so I'm suing you thing. Yeah, we didn't realize it was unsafe to do doughnuts into a parking lot and run over our friends. They were in your cart. There should have been a warning. Yeah, so she just wanted to be kept informed because the accident did involve our property.

    Oh, and these kids turned out to be the same ones who had run off with one of our scarecrows last week.
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    The problem will come if they find out that you witnessed them being stupid and didn't say anything. Not that you're necessarily legally obligated to do so, but some places have those pesky negligence statutes that say that if you see someone acting dangerously stupid, you're supposed to try to stop them.

    Too bad this event will likely get translated into a cool story about how they were screwing around and ooo, look at the wicked scar she has now.
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    • #3
      'Car-ma' at it's finest! Scarecrows' revenge!

      Yep, not a teaspoon of common sense between all of the, was there?
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      • #4
        Little girls killed the sho-oping cart...
        Little girls killed the sho-oping cart...
        In our minds, we weren't there,
        We couldn't run away, we weren't that scared...
        The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom

        Now queen of USSR-Land...

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        • #5
          Quoth flutes_and_fabric View Post
          I My manager asked to file a report for property damage for the crushed cart because she didn't want anything coming back to us. You know like the stupid, this coffee is too hot and I spilled it on myself so I'm suing you thing.
          Personally, I don't think suing for 3rd degree burns and skin grafts resulting in $11,000 medical bills is all that stupid. Especially when it was caused by coffee so hot it would have been impossible to drink without burning yourself, and when other people have also complained about being injured. But that's just me.

          Sorry to threadjack. I quite agree that if anyone gets sued here it shouldn't be your store.
          Women can do anything men can.
          But we don't because lots of it's disgusting.
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          • #6
            Quoth Sparky View Post
            Personally, I don't think suing for 3rd degree burns and skin grafts resulting in $11,000 medical bills is all that stupid.
            No offense, I gotta agree with Sparky here -- I actually had the "this is just silly" opinion of the "hot coffee MkII" issue too until I discovered that the problem was that the coffee was WAY hotter than it should EVER be. It wasn't just "a bit hotter than normal", it was, iirc, more like +50F hotter than "holy S*** that stuff is hot"... I wanna say it was due to malfunctioning equipment...it never should have been that hot to begin with...
            Last edited by EricKei; 10-27-2009, 04:41 PM.
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            • #7
              Quoth fireheart17 View Post
              Little girls killed the sho-oping cart...
              Little girls killed the sho-oping cart...
              In our minds, we weren't there,
              We couldn't run away, we weren't that scared...
              I saw you in the cart at a quarter past 2
              Doing a Jackass stunt with your best friends and you
              The car, it couldn't stop as you were coming through.

              Ooh-a-ooh

              And in our parking lot it's an emergency
              It looks like you could use a tracheotomy
              Your parents have a lawyer on contingency

              Ooh-a-ooh
              Some people's children
              Ooh-a-ooh
              What do we tell them?

              Little girls killed the sho-oping cart...
              Little girls killed the sho-oping cart...
              In our minds, we weren't there,
              We couldn't run away, we weren't that scared

              And now I see your parents at the funeral home
              I see your baby pictures from so long ago
              Only sixteen, what an awful way to go

              Ooh-a-ooh
              There's your cerebrum
              Ooh-a-ooh
              Roasting in the hot sun

              Little girls killed the sho-oping cart...
              Little girls killed the sho-oping cart...
              Off the hood of someone's car
              They keep your ashes in a jar

              Little girls killed the sho-oping cart...
              Little girls killed the sho-oping cart...
              You were young and you were bored
              You got a Darwin Award
              Your stunt has broke your parents' heart
              Put the video on DVR...

              They kiiillleddd...the sho-oping carrrrrtttt...

              They kiiilleddddd..the sho-oping caaaaaarrrrrrttttttt...
              Little girls killed the sho-oping cart...
              Little girls killed the sho-oping cart...
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              • #8
                If you can only tell the kids, "the scarecrow knows."
                Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

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                • #9
                  IPF, this could be the start of something wonderful
                  The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom

                  Now queen of USSR-Land...

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                  • #10
                    . That is all.
                    "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                    "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                    "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                    "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                    "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                    "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                    Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                    "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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                    • #11
                      Quoth flutes_and_fabric View Post
                      You know like the stupid, this coffee is too hot and I spilled it on myself so I'm suing you thing.
                      Quoth Sparky View Post
                      Personally, I don't think suing for 3rd degree burns and skin grafts resulting in $11,000 medical bills is all that stupid.
                      Quoth EricKei View Post
                      I gotta agree with Sparky here -- I actually had the "this is just silly" opinion of the "hot coffee MkII" issue too until I discovered that the problem was that the coffee was WAY hotter than it should EVER be.
                      ...And we will nip that entire line of discussion in the bud right now,

                      That is a debate for fratching, and not for CS.
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