{"id":659433,"date":"2013-05-21T23:02:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T03:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=231369"},"modified":"2013-05-21T23:02:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T03:02:29","slug":"singer-sues-mcdonalds-claims-vocal-damage-from-glass-in-chicken-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659433","title":{"rendered":"Singer Sues McDonalds, Claims Vocal Damage from Glass in Chicken Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"

McDonald’s is guilty of a lot of things – maybe under-salting their fries every now and then, exposing children to clowns at an early age, and maybe ruining my diet. But are they guilty of causing a woman to lose her beautiful singing voice?<\/p>\n

That’s just what 52-year-old Brooklyn resident Jacqueline Simpson alleges. She has filed a lawsuit claiming that her voice was ruined after she bit into a penny-sized shard of glass while eating a chicken sandwich. She says that the incident occurred in 2010 in a McDonald’s near the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow when I sing, I have a hoarse, rattly voice,\u201d Simpson told the NY Post<\/a>. \u201cI still sing alto, but I can\u2019t sing soprano like I used to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her case is currently with the Brooklyn Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to make a lot of calls for work, and I have to tell people that I\u2019m not a man. Before, that never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the FindLaw blog<\/a>, food-related injuries are usually treated as a product liability claim. More specifically – strict liability.<\/p>\n

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Under the strict liability theory, this is because Mickey D’s a business that sells chicken sandwiches regularly; they should be held responsible if any product (or sandwich) leaving their facilities is defective. A piece of glass — the size of a penny, according to Simpson’s claim — would certainly be construed as defective<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But there are a lot of questions about this lawsuit. Did Simpson swallow the glass? Is that how she claims it affected her singing voice? And the incident reportedly happened nearly three years ago – why wait so long? Is there physical (or medical) evidence?<\/p>\n

McDonald’s and liability lawsuits<\/a> – they seem to go together like, well, hash browns and a McMuffin. <\/p>\n

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McDonald’s is guilty of a lot of things – maybe under-salting their fries every now and then, exposing children to clowns at an early age, and maybe ruining my diet. But are they guilty of causing a woman to lose her beautiful singing voice? That’s just what 52-year-old Brooklyn resident Jacqueline Simpson alleges. She has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}