Since so many of you like to discuss "frivolous" lawsuits that aren't actually frivolous (mostly because someone is actually injured and has real damages), I thought I would let you read about one (thrown out of court because .... well, because it was a frivolous suit) that was in my news feed today:
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- A Connecticut judge has given the brush-off to a blonde woman's lawsuit claiming L'Oreal Inc. ruined her social life when she accidentally dyed her hair brunette with one of its products.
Charlotte Feeney of Stratford says
she can never return to her natural blonde hue, a shock that left her so traumatized she needed anti-depressants.
She says she suffered headaches and anxiety,
missed the attention that blondes receive and had to stay home and wear hats most of the time.
A Superior Court judge dismissed Feeney's 2005 lawsuit Monday, saying she never proved her allegation that L'Oreal put brown hair dye in a box labeled as blonde. The company also had disputed the claim.
Feeney referred questions on Wednesday to her attorney, David Laudano, who has declined to comment.
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So, if I am to understand this correctly .... she had to dye her hair in order to maintain a "natural" blonde hue??
And, she can "never" go back to that hue?? Not even if she lets her hair grow out??
And then .... what about all those brunettes who dye their hair blonde?? What makes it utterly impossible to just dye her now brown hair blonde?? It wouldn't be any worse than a dual process job.
And ... she "missed the attention that blondes receive" .... really?? Where do I sign up for that one?? Last time I checked, I was a blonde and I certainly don't remember getting any "attention" because of it (unless you count the extra attention from dimwits who think "blonde jokes" are funny).
Not to mention the absolutely ENORMOUS proof problem since she didn't save the original supposedly defective dye and packaging.
What sort of idiot spends several hundreds of dollars to hire an attorney and file a lawsuit, when the same amount, spent at a good hair salon, would have solved her problem in about two hours. (And, if anyone says "a blonde one" ... I will find you and kill you in a really unpleasant manner. Not to mention that she only engaged in this moronic behavior AFTER she was no longer blonde).
