Apropos of nothing political…
How can you order a Fajita and not know it’s hot?
Well a New Jersey man, Hiram Jimenez, filled with the spirit of that woman who sued McDonald’s years ago because she put a cup of hot coffee between her legs and the spillage made a booboo, has attempted to sue Applebee’s, because he ordered a Fajita – which, having been to a New Jersey Applebee’s or two, I know to come out loudly, visibly, sizzling, crackling, smoking hot.
Mr. Jimenez, decided to pray over his food before eating it. (Me? I’d be praying it didn’t permanently scar my esophagus ont he way down…or, if it’s spicy enough, a different part of me on the way out).
But when he bent over to do so, a bit of the sizzling, crackling oil popped up and hit him in the face. This, Jimenez claimed, caused him to knock the plate on his lap and sustain burns to his legs (and who knows what else….I just hope the food wasn’t exciting him at the time).
So what did he do about it?
According to the Time.com article,
He filed suit seeking damages on the grounds that he suffered “serious and permanent” injuries “solely as a result of (Applebee’s) negligence when he came in contact with a dangerous and hazardous condition, specifically, ‘a plate of hot food’.”
In other words, Jimenez sued Applebee’s because it did not advise him that a sizzling-hot plate of fajitas was….hot.
(Using that logic, I think I’m going to sue the local pizza place, because the last time I had a slice some marinara sauce dripped on my shirt…and they didn’t advise me that pizza had marinara sauce on it. Solely their negligence, you see.)
But, in court, the news was not good for Mr. Jimenez. Unaccountably, a trial judge dismissed his suit on the grounds that he should have surmised, without being warned by the restaurant, that a dish of hot fajitas is…hot.
My god, look at what they expect the general public to do these days! Do they think we’re all scientists?
Well, this did not sit well with Mr. Jimenez. So, as any reasonable person might expect, he appealed the dismissal.
But the appellate panel tossed it out as well. Amazing.
The silver lining in this dark cloud for Hiram Jimenez is that he now knows that there is some “jit” In a fajita…which, presumably, he was unaware of until this incident.
And we are once again reminded that our legal system opens the door to idiotic lawsuits — which, unlike this one, sometimes result in wins for the idiots who bring them.
Ok, back to politics, where if you substitute an “sh” for the “j”, you’ve all too often got the special of the day.
