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Exercise Common Sense

Mess with my kid and I’ll hunt you down and gut you like a fish… or slap you with a lawsuit.

Litigation, it’s the American way, and if you are a parent whose child has suffered at what you perceive are the hands of another, then watch out world!

We’ve seen it before on countless occasions. Recently, moms and dads ambushed cyberspace kvetching about the revelation that Taco Bell’s “seasoned beef” is alleged to be made primarily from components, such as water, isolated oat product, wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodextrin, anti-dusting agent, autolyzed yeast extract, modified corn starch and sodium phosphate, as well as some beef and seasonings.

Parents were irate and outraged that the Mexican-inspired eatery would dupe them. How dare the busy soccer mom on a budget purchase a 79-cent taco for her kid and not be gifted with 100 pure beef and other nutritional goodies that would help Junior grow up to be the next Cristiano Ronaldo… downing meals in the back of a minivan.

Many moms were fuming and wondered how they too could add their names to the bogus beef class-action lawsuit, because, by gosh, their kids’ health may have been compromised by their decision to think outside the bun.

Puh-leeze.

Of course, not every lapse of common sense is as clear cut.

For example, the family, who just slapped Walt Disney Parks and Resorts with a lawsuit, following an unfortunate incident involving their young son at Orlando’s Magic Kingdom last year, may have just cause for their ire.

The California couple decided to sue Disney after their 4-year-old son received second- and third-degree burns on his face while dining at Cosmic Ray’s Starlite Cafe. The lawsuit claims that a paper cup of scalding nacho cheese splashed on the boy’s face after he grabbed the tray it was sitting on to keep from falling out of an unsteady chair.

The suit further claims the child suffered “permanent scarring, pain and suffering” as a result of the burns, and his parents suffered “serious emotional distress” during and after the incident.

The parents are adamant that Disney is responsible for their son’s burns and refuse to take responsibility for monitoring their kid and the scalding hot nacho cheese.

“I think the parents, like the child, like any reasonable person, would have an expectation of food being served to children would be served at a reasonable temperature,” the family’s attorney told news reporters.

As for Disney, big wigs there say they are reviewing the lawsuit.

In the meantime, thousands of other parents have weighed in on the incident via Internet forums saying that the boy’s parents should be sued for not keeping the hot cheese out of the kid’s reach.

Whose side are you on in this convoluted blame game?

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About Michele Cheplic

Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism. She spent the next ten years as a television anchor and reporter at various stations throughout the country (from the CBS affiliate in Honolulu to the NBC affiliate in Green Bay). She has won numerous honors including an Emmy Award and multiple Edward R. Murrow awards honoring outstanding achievements in broadcast journalism. In addition, she has received awards from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association for her reports on air travel and the Wisconsin Education Association Council for her stories on education. Michele has since left television to concentrate on being a mom and freelance writer.