A Russian woman who drank up to 5 000 litres of Coca Cola has successfully sued the company for making her ill. Natalya Kashuba, 27, the owner of an upmarket clothes shop, drank up to three litres of the soft drink every day for five years. She took legal action against the soft drinks giant after claiming that she had suffered insomnia and heartburn, reports the Telegraph.
Miss Kashuba said she had become addicted to the drink as a result of a promotional offer that allowed consumers to swap Coca Cola caps for prizes. Dozens of inflatable mattresses and radios she won were used as key evidence in the case.
“In October 2005, as a result of an examination by a gastroenterologist, she was diagnosed with a chronic condition whose main symptom is heart burn,” her lawyer, Alexey Monakhov, said.
In a landmark ruling, two Russian courts agreed that Coca Cola had failed to warn of the potential health risks of drinking too much Coke and awarded Miss Kashuba
Though the sum in itself is derisory, Miss Kashuba's victory is unprecedented and could, lawyers predict, prompt an avalanche of similar suits.
Miss Kashuba herself is seeking a further from Coca Cola in “moral damages”. – Ananova.com
So what do you know. Drinking 5000 liters of coke will make you wired and give you heartburn. Well fucking DUH!
She's seeking “moral damages”? What on earth does that mean?
I'm feeling nauseous at the thought of drinking three liters of Coke in one day, never mind doing that every day for five freakin' years. She's damned lucky she managed to avoid serious dental problems and diabetes from doing that to herself.
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It's like… hmmm. I'll eat McDonalds every day until I need firemen to knock out a wall of my apartment so that I can go to a fat farm clinic and then sue the bastards for not telling me that eating crap, watching TV all day and not doing any exercise is bad for me. Yeah, that'll work…
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So… seeing as there is nothing on the label to say that eating a brick of shortening a day could cause problems, I can go ahead and do that, and just sue the company for lots of money if anything unfortunate happens? Awesome! That whole thinking-for-myself-and-considering-the-consequences-of-my-actions thing was getting so very tiresome.
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I know. Ain't modern life grand?
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