Saturday, June 14, 2008

Loony Lawsuits

The squeamish should not watch a reality TV show called Fear Factor. Now that’s a fact. With contestants eating worms and fighting crocodiles, it’s best for the faint-hearted to stick to Cartoon Network. Austin Aitken is one such couch potato. And as with consideration to how much his mind could handle he should have stayed on to CN. But then that was not to be and that night in 2005 he tuned into the wrong channel, at the wrong hour and got caught with an episode that was so disgusting, it made him ill. His blood pressure rose and he grew dizzy, causing him to bang his head against the doorway as he fled the room. A $2.5 million payout from the NBC television network will put him on the road to recovery. Or so he thought.

The final verdict: The judge ruled that it was for situations like these that the remote was invented and threw the case off the court.

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