I suppose the Supreme Court will have to translate that to the appropriately dignified legalese, but I trust that will be the gist of their decision after hearing this case today:
The Supreme Court of Canada Tuesday reserved judgment on the case of a Windsor man suing Culligan of Canada for the mental distress he endured after finding a dead fly in his bottled water.
The traumatized weenie didn’t even drink the water, he just saw the terrifying image in the bottle. Just seeing the fly shattered this fragile soul sufficiently that it changed his personality and killed his sex life.
Or if they insist on awarding him something, perhaps he should be given the full collection of The Fly horror films and forced to watch them as therapy.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave…
You’ve got to be kidding. It takes all kinds, that’s for sure.
But how can anyone prove, beyond a reasonable or even speculative doubt, that Seeing The Fly caused his psychological distress?
How many other possible causes were empirically excluded such that the Court found that one, and only one, cause led to his ‘distress’?
Haven’t the courts ever heard of a pre-disposition to alarm, of a linear set of events that, by virtue of one irrelevant triggering mechanism, led to a spectacular result?
Did the accidentally dropped cigarette cause the fire – or did the gasoline soaked papers put there by X-person, who was angry at Y-person..who..etc..etc?
This guy is in desperate need of a psychiatrist. As it stands, he’s had his phobia reinforced rather than extinguished as it should have been right after the incident happened.
I thought there was some sort of “reasonable man” test that the courts applied where one would expect the reasonable man to call up the water supplier, tell them there was a fly in the bottle and request a new one to be delivered. If the company failed to replace it he might have a suit (at least in my non-legal opinion).
It is a sad commentary on society that this ever made it to a court.
Or is this April fools early? Waddah Mustapha? (Water, Must hava?)
If it is true, what a sad little man.
and the lawyer is just as bad for taking the case, should have taken him up north where the sky is made of flies.
what is the chance that Mr. Mustapha came from a country where flies inhabit the top surface of every bit of food at the market?
How did this even get to the *Supreme Court of Canada*–HOW? Have they nothing better to do?
Supremo 1: “Uh, Jim, there’s a guy saying he can’t get his pecker up because of a fly in his water bottle… Do you think we should do this thing?” Supremo 2: “Yeah sure. Can’t see why not.”
Based on the title on thought this was going to be a response to Warren……. 🙂
I saw a dog throw up once and now I’m . . . oh shudder, horrors, I can’t bare to contemplate!!!!
Yes, a sad little man for sure, but I figure mostly sad because his shakedown of Culligan, his pure unabashed extortion attempt, will hopefully not pan out.
Did the fly look like a pig, or what?
This is preposterous.
Why didn’t the first judge throw the case out? ‘Not allow it to be heard?
What has this cost the long-suffering taxpayers?
Did the fly look like a pig, or what?
This is preposterous.
Why didn’t the first judge throw the case out? ‘Not allow it to be heard?
What has this cost the long-suffering taxpayers?
He’s not a weenie. He’s an asshole who thinks he found a way to cash in.
Well, maybe he’s a weenie, I don’t know. My money, however, is on “greedy asshole.”
He has my sympathy. I am considering launching a lawsuit against the makers of mescal. I picked up 4 bottles while in mexico and there was a large maggot in the bottom of each. I persevered,drank each bottle and suffered horrifying consequences including vomiting,loss of motor control,slurred speech and yes my little fella did not respond to stimuli. To this day I cannot look at a bottle of mescal without shuddering which indicates long-term psychological effects.Surprisingly,tequila is still very enjoyable.
In the western world,everyone is responsible for you, except you. Stupidity is no longer something to shun but, rather, a means to strike it rich.
First, a woman successfully sues her dope dealer.
Now, a lawyer, no less, is suing the casinos because she could not exercise self control. There is no guessing what the result of that case will be.
It is a sad commentary on where we have come that I have no confidence that the people who have been appointed to our highest court have the common sense necessary to dismiss this case in 2 seconds, and order that he pay the costs of the court cases he has frivolously launched.
Sounds like an Arab welfare parasite. He’s got no connection to Canada. He doesn’t love his country or identify with its values. So why not go on welfare and let the infidels cater to his every need?
I feel bad for him because of his shattered sex life, although if he can get an appointment with a urologist and get prescription for “trimix’ injectible, that problem should be solved in minutes.
Maybe the supremes would order Culligan’s to be liable for the cost.
About $70.00 for 20 micrograms, used according to directions.
Since when does an Arab get upset at seeing a dead fly? Seems a tad oxyMORONic.
But, then I suppose Allah moves in mysterious ways.
Huh. Maybe Richard Warman realizes that his liberal fascist days are over, so he’s moved on to the next opportunity to earn his meal ticket…
What’s up with all these sensitive, easily-offended folks who find bizarre things in the stuff they buy for consumption?
Whatever happened to, “Waiter! There’s a hair/fly in my soup! May I please have another bowl instead?”
Finding a fly in one’s water bottle. Oh, yes… that’s one of the most devastating things in the world, though I think it pales in comparison to having Liberal governments!
You know, visiting Warren Kinsella’s blog is a traumatizing incident for some to experience, I imagine.
So… anyone want to sue him, then? Myself, I just look at his little craplog and think, “This is the guy I thought was Satan???” and just chuckle softly and click out…
I once opened a tin of artichokes – and there was a neatly preserved worm in the middle of one. I threw the tin out. Oh..if I’d only thought..I’d be rich now.
And the rotten egg in one batch…
And the tin of peas that practically exploded..
And ….ah heck.
THIS actually made it, to the SCC?? Whatacountry.. ha ha.
Whatever happens, I hope the girly, I mean, weenie man never leaves Windsor.
Good gawd there is a nasty world out there for this innocent… LOL!
Who told you to put the balm on it … I didn’t tell you to put the balm on it … who told you to put the balm on it … I didn’t tell you to put the balm on it …
– Jackie Chiles
In an earlier more robust age I once:
In Vancouver, (c. 1969-70) got a cigarette butt in my bowl of ice cream. They were mortified, told me that they had had problems with their dishwaster, and gave me a new bowl, which also had a cigarette butt in it.
In Fredericton NB I once had french fries with floor wax on ’em; as it turned out, the vinegar dispenser had been filled with floor wax which was next to the the vinegar in the storeroom.
I found both incidents kinda amusing.
It killed his sex life?
He probably could no long deal with ‘fly’ on his boyfriends trousers.
I cannot imagine any woman having sex with such an insect.
Loser.
If the courts would not give guys like this $341,775 reasons to win, there would be fewer of these.
A guy,
Too funny!
He should have been eating V**gra instead of looking at drinking water.
They shouldn’t give him the classic Cronenberg version of The Fly. Too good for this fool.
It’s nice to see the closet racists coming out on this forum.
Don’t comment on the facts of the case or anything…just spew out crap about him being Arab scum.
Nice
Surely Culligan can’t be held responsible for this fellows psychological demise. Very strange — I am surprised that the Supreme Court would take this on — don’t they usually deal with cases based on important principles?
Who said it was an Arab? Could have been an Asian or maybe manorrd we think that if it was a non unmentionable, like western thinking canuk, it’d likely never have even been sent to the Supreme Court of Canada in the first place.
It’s utterly stupid it went this far, deserves all the mockery it gets.
manorrd; http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/michaelbuble/comeflywithme.html
Seems the bottled water company has an excellent of providing a clean product.
This Weenie has a point though. The fly was an impurity and so he should collect what that terrible loss was worth. . . $25.00 and a free bottle of clear pure Cullogen water.
His warped thin skin / thin skull is his defect, not Cullogen*s. = TG
“He said he lost his sense of humour.”
This is a considerable achievement — to find the one Muslim in a million with a sense of humour, and take it away from him.
I know this fellow personally. He is nothing but a spoiled rich kid.
Now the whole country is laughing at him not just Windsor.
He had an out of court settlement that he turned down against the advice of his lawyer.
Must of been Arar’s settlement that made him go for broke.
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine the human race can produce such extremes:
On the one hand, there’s this wiener all psychologically shattered because a lousy fly showed up in his water.
On the other hand, there’s the state funeral in France for Lazare Ponticelli who died last week at 110. He was the the last living French veteran of the First World War. Ponticelli joined the Foreign Legion at 16 (he lied about his age) and was in the thick of things throughout.
How many flies showed up in his canteen cup, I wonder?
Never underestimate the psychological shock-and-awe of smalldeadinsects.
“He said he lost his sense of humour, and became argumentative and edgy.”
That happens to me when I read this kind of thing!
Even up in canada you have those rotten lawyers and some whinning little wussietard who are so darn whimpy they would make PEE WEE HERMIN look like HE-MAN
The Supreme Court of Canada actually agreed to hear this case? I agree that the complainant deserves all the mockery we can summon, but shouldn’t we reserve some for the nine bad Santa suits? The dark lord, Sauron had his nine ringwraiths; now Mustapha of Canuckistan has his nine flywraiths.
Or maybe it is all of us who deserve the mockery for not objecting more strenuously to the lunacy that our justice system has become.
The SUPREME COURT OF CANADA?! WTF?!
Spike Milligan:
“Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup.”
Felis Corpulentis,
**Or maybe it is all of us who deserve the mockery for not objecting more strenuously to the lunacy that our justice system has become.**
NOW yer talkin*.
Air India, Gomery, Picton trials and on and on…
Lawyers streeeetch time to include as many $1000 dollar letters as possible.
Dentists have jumped fees, [ex: crown $750 is now $1000 each]. Vets also set prices sky high by their *closed club* set prices. You can no longer afford your dog or cat.
Are we lemmings or sheeple?= TG
First of all, the man’s not Muslim…sorry to disappoint.
Secondly, he’s not an Arab…sorry to disappoint.
Thirdly, he’s not welfare scum, because he has his own business, and provides jobs for the local community (a handful anyway).
Forget the fact that Culligan brands itself as a source for pure water when it’s bottling plant has mice, flies, etc., because I’m curious to see if anyone here even really knows why this made it to the supreme court in the first place (hint: it’s not about the fly in the bottle).
…but hey…don’t let research spoil the party or anything….smelly Muslim!
manorrd:
“…he’s not an Arab…sorry to disappoint.”
Who would know?
You look up Waddah and Mustapha and the one thing they seem to have in common is that they are Arab names.
So, my question to you, manorrd, is how do you know that he is neither Muslim nor Arab?
Maybe like in the movie SPACEBALLS a little aleins will come ripping out of his belly and do a little song and dance accross the bar. HELLO MY BABY, HELLO MY HONEY, HELLO MY RAGTIME GAL,SEND ME A KISS BY WIRE,BABIE MY HEARTS ON FIRE,IF YOU DONT CHOOSE ME.HONEY YOU LOSE ME,THEN YOU,LL BE LEFT ALONE