Can you sue for being ignorant?

Can you sue for being naive and not reading product labels?
Apparently. Had I only known this a few years ago when after finishing half a bag of Ricola Sugar Free Green Tea with Echinacea drops, I developed horrible cramps and liquid..well you can imagine, at work. It was only after I had to go home sick that I actually turned the bag around and read the label on the back....

Active Ingredient
(in each drop)PurposesMenthol, 4.1 mg
Cough supressant

Oral pain reliever
Uses temporarily relieves:

cough due to cold or inhaled irritants
occasional minor irritation and pain due to sore throat or sore mouth
Warnings
Sore throat warnings:

if sore throat is severe, persists for more than 2 days, is accompanied or followed by fever, headache, rash, swelling, nausea, or vomiting, consult a doctor promptly. These may be serious.
Do not use in children under 6 years of age unless directed by a doctor.
Ask a doctor before use if you have

persistent or chronic cough such as occurs with smoking, asthma, or emphysema
cough accompanied by excessive phlegm (mucus)
Stop use and ask a doctor if

cough persists for more than 1 week, tends to recur, or is accompanied by fever, rash or persistent headache. These could be signs of a serious condition.
sore mouth does not improve in 7 days
irritation, pain, or redness persists or worsens
Keep out of reach of children.

Directions

adults and children 6 years and older: dissolve 2 drops (one at a time) slowly in the mouth. Repeat every 2 hours as needed or as directed by a doctor.
children under 6 years: ask a doctor
Other Information

Phenylketonurics, contains phenylalanine 1 mg per drop.
Excessive use may have a laxative effect
Store in a dry place
Product may be useful for diabetics on the advice of a doctor
Exchange information

2 Drops = FREE Exchange
7 Drops = 1 Fruit
Dietary exchanges based on Exchange Lists for Diabetes. ©2008 American Diabetes Association, The American Dietetic Association.
Inactive Ingredients

aspartame, citric acid, extracts of echinacea, green tea, peppermint and Ricola's herb mixture (elder, horehound, hyssop, lemon balm, linden flowers, mallow, peppermint, sage, thyme, wild thyme), isomalt, natural color (chlorophyll), natural flavors (peppermint oil, spearmint oil), sorbitol

Did you catch it? apparently for me 1/2 a bag over a 5 hour period constitutes "excessive use". This and the time I had hot chocolate spilled all over my hand in a drive thru right before the "hot coffee and the scalded crotch" lawsuit. (I still think of that every time I look at a hot beverage cup and notice how it says "hot" or "caution contents may be hot" in several languages. Who thought prior to that lawsuit that someone could sue for not realizing that coffee could be hot and burn your nether regions if you try to hold it there?
What are these lawsuits saying about Americans anyway?
That we are greedy people that will jump at any chance to get a payout? or that we are horribly naive and need to be hand held like toddlers through life?
Once during my brief stint as a Mc Manager, an elderly man came up to me and proceeded to tell me very angrily that he was going to sue my employer. I asked him why and he replied that his wife had broken her nose on one of our doors because she hadn't seen it and had walked into it because it was, "too clean". Wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt, I asked him to show me the door in question while we waited for the paramedics and his wife sat with an ice pack on her face moaning and groaning. It was quite the scene.
Folks, it was one of the doors that had a BIG BLACK PUSH BAR ON IT that clearly said, "push". I asked him again if he was sure it had been this door. He assured me it was. So I stupidly said, "Sir I don't mean to be rude but the door is clearly marked and I don't see how it is this establishments fault that your wife didn't notice.." He blew up at me and kept saying that the door was too clean and she couldn't see it. Well, they went away in the ambulance and later I found out that the store owner had settled out of court. I was irate. I couldn't believe they had been paid for simple stupidity or just plain lack of attention. I remember thinking at the time that I had better go around labeling all corners as potentially sharp, all cabinets and doors as potential finger or hand pinching hazards..etc. "Where will it end?" I had asked. Well, it hasn't ended yet....




the 5 unhealthiest drinks....
5) Worst “Healthy” Drink
Glaceau VitaminWater (any flavor 20oz bottle)
130 calories, 33 grams of sugar.
Vitamins and water might seem like a good idea but what they don’t advertise is that this water contains nearly as much calories and sugar as a can of soda. It should be no surprise that this stuff is made by The Coca-Cola Company.

4) Worst Juice Impostor
Arizona Kiwi Strawberry (23.5 oz can)
360 calories, 84 grams of sugar.
These bottles which are just 5 percent juice cost 99 cents which makes them one of the cheapest source of empty calories in the country.

3) Worst Smoothie
Jamba Juice Peanut Butter Moo’d Power Smoothie (30 oz)
169 grams of sugar, 30 grams of fat
Whether you call it a smoothie or a milk shake, it has more sugar than a bag of chocolate chips.

2) Worst Summer Cocktail
Pina Colada
625 calories, 75 grams of sugar
Because of the super sweet pineapple juice and fatty coconut milk, the only wise thing to consume here may be the garnish. Try a lime daiquiri or mojito instead and save 400 calories.

1) The Unhealthiest Drink In America
Baskin Robbin’s Large Heath Bar Shake (32. oz)
2,310 calories, 266 grams of sugar, 108 grams of fat
73 ingredients go into this milk shake.
66 teaspoons of sugar.
11 Heath bars equal the calories in this shake
8-12 minutes to consume this drink.
240 minutes on a treadmill running at a moderate pace to burn it off.

There you have it…the 5 so-called “Satans of Sip”…stay clear of these demons because no matter how healthy that Greek Salad from Panera Bread is, one of these calorie-filled bastards will knock you flat on your butt. Be smart…later.




Vitamin Water Lawsuit
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has sued Coca-Cola for selling Vitamin Water. CSPI's claim is that Vitamin Water is not good for you. No duh. In a Platonic sense, CSPI has a point.
Vitamin water is not good for you. It is loaded with crystalline fructose - a euphemism for high fructose corn syrup. One bottle of Vitamin water has enough sugar to rot your teeth and give you a Vitamin-Water belly.
Yet somehow Coca-Cola has convinced people to buy the stuff. People also buy low-fat chips and baked Lay's. People like to rationalize unhealthy decisions. Vitamin Water may as well have been made with water from a river in Egypt.
However, Coca-Cola has told no lies. CSPI's client claims otherwise:
The lead plaintiff in the case, San Francisco resident James Koh, said in a statement, "I was attracted by the prospect of getting extra vitamins. But I had no idea that I was actually getting almost a Coke's worth of sugar and calories. There's no way I would have spent money on that, had I known."
What? On every bottle of water, in legible font, it shows how many grams of sugar and how many calories are in it. Answer: Almost a Coke's worth. All Jame Koh had to do was read the label. If he didn't read the label, why should he be able to sue? If Coke had lied, Koh's case would be just.
I am a label reader. I buy products based on the company's label claims. If an item has more carbohydrates or less protein than the label claims, the company has committed fraud: They lied me to get me to buy their product. That's a crime.
Where a company has lied about what's in its product, people should go to prison. Where the label tells the truth, what is the wrong? Vitamin Water labels very clearly state that Vitamin Water contains a lot of sugar and a lot of calories. Consume at your own risk.
go to the vitamin water website here!