THIS is a McDonald's lawsuit I can get behind. (Rachel Lucas)

THIS is a McDonald's lawsuit I can get behind.

I will never bite into any McDonald's bread product again without preparing for horror.

Joining his wife and friends for their usual breakfast outing at the McDonald's in Elkview, Arden Carte unwrapped his plain biscuit, cut it in half and smothered each piece with jelly.
He says he sank his teeth into it and discovered an item not typically served at fast-food joints -- a bloody adhesive bandage.

Carte, 58, of Pinch, is now suing McDonald's, saying he suffered a severe allergic reaction to the bandage's latex.

A forensics lab confirmed that the Band-Aid was actually baked into the biscuit itself.

This should be the easiest verdict ever. Unlike that cheese clown, this guy couldn't have saved himself by simply checking his food. Plus, a bloody Band-Aid mixed in with the batter is a whole shitload more deliberate and/or irresponsible than putting visible cheese on a burger. God, really. I don't think I can eat at McBarfle's anymore.

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Comments (21)

mtncb

Wow.

First of all, I don't buy the latex allergy argument. I keep hearing that, but it's like people whining about peanut allergies -- I'm starting to believe it's completely bogus.

Secondly...I can believe that the bandage got into the batter by accident.

On the other hand, why wasn't the moron cook who lost it wearing gloves?

Oh wait. Latex allergies.

Regardless of your take on it, this is yet another in a long series of meritless lawsuits that fifty years ago would have been laughed out of court. The fact that our courts now take this kind of thing seriously only points up how broken and given over to the liberals are courts are.

It's all about the money. I'll bet the guy poisoned himself with latex just so he could file the suit.

Yes, I AM annoyed with humanity this afternoon, why do you ask?

Posted by mtncb | August 17, 2007 4:12 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 16:12

PatHMV

That's pretty gross. I'm all for collecting something, but it better not be on the order of millions, or even into 6 figures.

I wonder whether the restaurant gets biscuit mix or ready-to-cook biscuits. I don't think they mix them up and roll them out there in the local McD's. They get them frozen from a supplier, I suspect, and it's the supplier's employee who was making biscuits without wearing latex (or vinyl) gloves.

Posted by PatHMV | August 17, 2007 4:23 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 16:23

Page

Even if you do eat at MickeyD's again, you should only eat the good, wholesome products. Like the McNuggets.

Posted by Page | August 17, 2007 4:23 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 16:23

langtry

This man's looking for a settlement from McDonald's, and it may well be that the restaurant in question is a McOpCo, or franchisee. The money they likely offered is a pittance compared to what he would get from MickeyD's, hence the suit.

Other than that, that is beyond gross.

Posted by langtry | August 17, 2007 4:24 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 16:24

Brian_Thorn

The plaintiff is filing suit two years after this "traumatic event", and that doesn't seem fishy somehow? Someone kept a partially digested bloody "bandage" on file for 2 whole years? It isn't possible that in the two years since the "incident" the plaintiff hasn't developed sypmtoms and conditions from a bagillion other sources? Sounds to me like an open and shut case for the defense.

"If The Bandage Doesn't Fit, You Must Acquit."

Have fun ;)!

PS: Does this mean I get to file suit against Pizza Hut now for the greasy slice of pan pizza that make me throw up 29 years ago? I blame my inability to become a Millionaire by age 20 on that traumatic event. Think I have a case?

Posted by Brian_Thorn | August 17, 2007 5:11 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 17:11

KitFox_2123

The Two Years part is fishy. But the rest of this actually makes sense. The peanut and latex allergies ARE real, though.

Anecdote Alert:
One of my former students is highly allergic and actually went into aniphylactic (sp?) shock when her boyfriend kissed her after eating a snickers bar. She almost died.

Husband is allergic to latex. He didn't know until the first time he tried to use a condom. Bad bad things happened.

Posted by KitFox_2123 | August 17, 2007 5:18 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 17:18

CastoCreations

Wow...and ew. I do believe they have frozen biscuits that are cooked in the local McDs. When I worked at KFC we had these frozen pucks that went on a tray and into the oven (ahh...my teenage years).

It really makes me hesitate to eat out ANYWHERE. *shudder*

Posted by CastoCreations | August 17, 2007 5:54 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 17:54

Annie

Man, I am SO glad I'm one of those f*cking vegans. Sometimes it comes in handy!
*sometimes* :p

Posted by Annie | August 17, 2007 6:29 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 18:29

HurricaneMikey

It was probably a f*cking vegan that put the bandaid in there in the first place.

Can't trust people who won't eat meat.

I'm just sayin'...

Posted by HurricaneMikey | August 17, 2007 7:08 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 19:08

evvybuns

Eeeew!

Posted by evvybuns | August 17, 2007 8:16 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 20:16

Chris Hunt

Take your free sandwich and SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Posted by Chris Hunt | August 17, 2007 8:59 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 20:59

Annie

LMAO @ HurricaneMikey!! :D

Posted by Annie | August 17, 2007 9:05 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 21:05

trainer

I go for the McDo 'chicken parts' products myself...that way I'm not disappointed with what I get.

Old boots, bandaids, whatever...it all tastes like chicken.

Posted by trainer | August 17, 2007 9:25 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 21:25

Random Numbers

When I worked at MickyD the biscuits were made in the store with a mix and milk by a Shri-Lankan woman who spoke very little English. She always wore gloves.

So , if the band-aid really was inside the biscuit (I'd like to see how they determined that), it was either inside the mix or on the hands of the cook who made them. If it was inside the mix, the cook broke process rules by not running the mix through a dry sift before adding the milk. If it was on the cook's hands, the cook broke process by not wearing the plastic gloves.

It is possible that this lawsuit stems from a real incident. Still, turning it into a $10mil lottery win is a bit much.

Posted by Random Numbers | August 17, 2007 10:07 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 22:07

Lance de Boyle

I once found a condom in a Trojan wrapper.

Imagine my surprise!

I expected a Trojan and I got a condom.

What the heck!

The condom looked like a hat that Al Gore might wear.

It didn't look ANYTHING like a Trojan.

I knew not what the lesson was.

I deposited the nonTrojan condom in a trash can and went on my way, a sadder but no wiser man.

Posted by Lance de Boyle | August 17, 2007 11:01 PM

Posted on August 17, 2007 23:01

Hardliner

Like someone else said....

Ewwww!

Posted by Hardliner | August 18, 2007 12:30 AM

Posted on August 18, 2007 00:30

HurricaneMikey

Lance is trying too hard, now.

Posted by HurricaneMikey | August 18, 2007 4:21 AM

Posted on August 18, 2007 04:21

retrocop

Random Numbers,

Gee I thought a large percentage of them were prepared herre in "good ole Tulsa, OK" and shipped out all over the U.S. We have a bakery factory in an industrial park north of town whose main claim to fame is the ginormous amount of biscuits they make for McDonald's.

Gosh, could said bandage have originated here? How exciting to possibly be so close to such a noteworthy event.

Posted by retrocop | August 18, 2007 12:27 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 12:27

Lance de Boyle

"Lance is trying too hard, now."

No, he's not, HurricaneMikey.

He's not even trying.

But NOW he'll try.

******

I was sitting in McDonald's, minding my own business.

The plastic clown kept looking at me as if he wanted a tip on a race horse.

I had no tips.

My name is Marlow.

Philip Marlow.

She was a redhead. Her hair draped across her shoulder like a cascading sunset.

I knew it was a stupid simile.

I didn't care.

She strutted up to the counter.

Her legs went all the way to the floor.

She ordered a plain biscuit and brought it to my table.

She made a coy lip---you know the kind---the kind that says, "Look, I'm making a coy lip."

She said, "I've got a hot biscuit, tough guy. Want a bite?"

I said, "Sure, but what's with the coy lip?"

She slapped the hat off my head.

I said, "I guess the first slap's free. How much is the next?"

I opened her hot biscuit.

Moist.

Another bloody bandaid.

"Will these biscuit pranks never cease?" I said to the clown.

He wasn't talking.

Posted by Lance de Boyle | August 19, 2007 4:31 PM

Posted on August 19, 2007 16:31

HurricaneMikey

*That* was trying?

I guess if you were any good, you'd have your own website, and readers, huh?

Posted by HurricaneMikey | August 19, 2007 8:11 PM

Posted on August 19, 2007 20:11

Lance de Boyle

I DO have my own website, HurricaneMikey.

And 3 readers, NOT including me.

We're so poor down here that we can't afford readers.

Posted by Lance de Boyle | August 19, 2007 10:13 PM

Posted on August 19, 2007 22:13