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Originally Posted by rkomar
I suspect it usually has to do with forcing the garbage pickers to buy something rather than just taking the discards. I can't imagine anyone getting sued for putting old food in the garbage (what else would you do with it?). Deliberately poisoning the old food would be a different matter.
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The old 'you should have known I was gonna eat that' ploy would probably kick in. Do not confuse common sense with what it is that lawyers do. I once served on a jury late 1990's where a small men's store was sued by an old lady (actually the old lady's lawyer nephew) for not shoveling the snow from their Alley even though the front Customer entrance was free of snow.
The old lady's nephew dropped her off in the alley for some strange reason so she could enter the store and pick something up for her husband. And dof course she fell. It seems that in the 1930's the alley door was open to customers but was locked shut in the 1940's.
The old lady's nephwe argued that even though the door hadn't been used in 40 years, the store(which had changed hands a couple of times, and the manager was around 24 YO) should have known that old people would remember it being open at one time and should have taken steps to insure that a long term non functional entrance was safe.
Me and the old Republican farmers on the jury didn't give her a dime. But you can't trust that juries will have ANY common sense any more.