The first 500 fans 14 and under get a free lawsuit!
As your attorney, I must advise against this promotion.
Today's Sametime Status is brought to you courtesy of some jackhole lawyer whose name I won't even print here because he's a moron who doesn't deserve the sort of publicity that goes along with being in "Jeremy Is In The Office."
This article describes a recent class-action lawsuit brought against the Oakland Athletics baseball club alleging discrimination because a giveaway promotion for a Mothers Day weekend game in 2004 provided plaid bucket hats to women in the audience.
Apparently distressed that he didn't receive a hat (which personally...I think he would have been punched if he had been seen wearing a stupid-looking hat like this), this jerk decided to sue, which ended up costing the A's and Macy's (a co-sponsor of the giveaway) $500,000 in an out of court settlement. The real winner here isn't the guy who can now claim $100 in A's and Macy's discounts, or the people who actually got the hats which never saw the light of day again, but the lawyer who took home $20,000 in an "enhancement fee" for bringing the case forward.
If this was an isolated incident, it wouldn't be so bad. It would be bad, don't get me wrong...but it gets worse in the fact that this chucklehead makes a living out of this. He looks around for various promotions he can claim to be discriminatory, and sues. If anybody knows this guy, please smack him around with his new floppy hat. He's earned it.
Today's rant is the sole opinion of Jeremy and does not represent the views of "Jeremy Is In The Office" or Miracle Posting Inc.
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