Coors lawsuit and Parents

[eddy]

Two things, if the guy can get it into the beer bottle, god speed my friend god speed. Secondly, why doesn't the parent go after someone who might have actual prevented said accident, i.e. the person who provided then minors with beer? As far as i can see it, coors sells the beer to the beer store, or what ever equivalent. They are then removed from the equation.

 

[Sergeant]

Just testing the outer boundaries. It worked on the McDonalds & hot cofee, and the Colt / guns cases. Who know, they may get lucky.

But see, with the McDonald's case, the company was doing something wrong. Making the coffee much hotter than their guidelines allowed.

 

[dorcusmalorcus]

I do think that the Lawsuit is BS,
But I also agree with the mother that Coors and Miller and all those other big beer companies are,
"glorifying a culture of youth, sex and glamour while hiding the dangers of alcohol abuse and addiction."

If we require the beer companies to post the obvious dangers of drinking, then we should require all other companies to post equally obvious things.

Fast food companies should now have big posters of really obese people shoveling food in their mouths and a caption saying "Eating this crap all the time can make you hugely obese".

Candy companies should run adds showing people with black teeth and no teeth with the disclaimer "Sugar will make you look like this".

Car companies should be required to show pictures of gruesome car wrecks with the disclaimer "Driving really fast and wreckless will make you end up like the long, gooey streak in the middle."

A little common sense needs to be applied here. When did it become a mystery that alcohol impairs you judgement and abilities? And saying "kids wouldn't know because they aren't exposed to it" is crap too. Look at any "teen" show and they always have the "very special episode" that involves either drugs, drinking, or sex. They see plenty of it (unfortunately) in today's media to know what it does, yet they still opt to make bad decisions.

Coors isn't to blame here. The person who sold a minor alcohol is to blame along with the guy who opted to drive drunk. I believe that at 18 he is old enough to legally make his own decisions. He chose to drink and drive, and he paid the price. Tragic, but not the beer companies fault.

 

[FoodPoisoning]

I already said,
I more agree with the first part of the quote...
I already know that the beer companies have to say stuff like "Drink responsibly"
If only I could edit that post...