Posted by Eugene Volokh:
My Heart Bleeds for This Fellow,
who is suing NBC over a Fear Factor episode. [1]Reuters reports
(thanks to [2]How Appealing for the pointer) that
In a handwritten four-page lawsuit filed in federal court in
Cleveland on Tuesday [demanding $2.5 million in damages], paralegal
Austin Aitken said, "To have the individuals on the show eat (yes)
and drink dead rats was crazy and from a viewer's point of view
made me throw-up as well an another in the house at the same time."
His suit added, "NBC is sending the wrong message to its TV
watchers that cash can make or have people do just about anything
beyond reasoning (sic) and in most cases against their will."
He said the show caused his blood pressure to rise so high that he
became dizzy and light-headed, and when he ran away to his room, he
bumped his head into the doorway.
Apparently cash can make a paralegal publicly embarrass himself. Oh,
and here's my favorite part of the story: "In a brief telephone
interview with Reuters, Aitken said, 'I am not at liberty to discuss
the complaint unless it is a paid-interview situation.'" Must be some
weird nondisclosure agreement he signed that constricts his liberty.
Or maybe his religion, or a hitherto unknown section of the Patriot
Act.
References
1. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7247657
2. http://legalaffairs.org/howappealing
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