There is something I simply love about this picture of a man and Pikachu and the horrible feeling it evokes of childhoods gone by and wasting money on the incredible “investment” of Pokemon cards.
As with all kids I spend lots of my parents hard earned cash on these cards. This bloke also and perhaps still does.
Pocket Monsters YO!
How often do you receive a spammy text message to your phone? I perhaps receive one every few months and simply ignore them and they generally never send the same message again.
However, is there some kind of etiquette one should follow after receiving one of these spammy messages onto your pay as you go phones? Should you at the very least read it before sending it to the junk folder? Or if you are feeling especially nice actually attempt a polite reply? Or as a woman from Miami, USA decided to do, Sue the pants of them…
Her name is Elizabeth Espinal, and she became so irritated by the constant text messages from Burger King citing them “cryptic” and slightly creepy.
You know the kind of thing, enticements to nosh on a splendidly nourishing Burger King steakhouse burger. Or entreaties to please, please try a Mocha BK Iced Coffee. After the first, Espinal allegedly texted back “stop.” But the King kept creeping electronically into her life certain, it seems, of winning her over. At least twice more, apparently.
Elizabeth was unimpressed by The Kings poor attempts at wooing her with a “perfect mix of rich coffee and chocolate syrup” and rightly decided to slap him with the “perfect mix” of a law suit.
CNET had this to say about Elizabeths lawsuit.
Now, we all have our own opinions of fast food. Yes, the purchasing process can be aggravating, and yes, very occasionally our digestion can slip a cog in its delicate machinations, resulting in some temporary harm. But could this all be worth $5 million?
Oh, perhaps I didn’t mention, but Espinal is allegedly looking for 5 million whopping dollars. Perhaps the King would merely have to sell a couple of his crowns, but still, it does seem like a lot of money. She appears to have filed the suit in April of this year as a class action and it has not yet received certification. Her no doubt clever lawyers are relying on Section 47 of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which “prohibits unsolicited voice and text calls to cellular phones.”I understand that Espinal might be on the blistered side of peeved to discover she had to pay for the texts that Burger King sent, even though they might have contained patently irresistible enticements. But $5 million suggests either that she is a very sensitive human being, or that she believes that the only way to deal with an alleged harasser is to harass them right back. What if she were to somehow win? Might we all be able to sue those who text us with unwanted inducements? I’m not thinking merely of AT&T, which keeps sending me texts with numbers and concepts far beyond my meager rationality.
I think the massive issue as opposed to Elizabeth trying to sue Burger King is how frail and easy to exploit the US justice system is? Anyone know a Brit who would sue for this? and have the balls to ask for $5 million?
This weeks “Album of the Week” comes from Yeasayer a band I heard on the radio a few month ago at the time I hated the band/song and thought it was pretty lame. Whilst my band was away on tour recently we spent a lot of time in the van listening to various tunes and albums. The Yeasayer album “All Hour Cymbals” was amongst those we had the pleasure of listening to.
Coming from Brooklyn, New York. The Music of Yeasayer according to All Music Guide is a “genre bending journey into pop, rock, Middle Eastern and African Musics, folk and dub”. Sounds very interesting eh!
Vocalist/keyboardist Chris Keating and vocalist/guitarist Anand Wilder were both raised in Baltimore, where they honed their vocal skills in a barbershop quartet and played in a high-school band, Sic Transit, before leaving town to attend different colleges. Years later, the two relocated to New York and began shaping the project that would soon become Yeasayer. Wilder’s cousin, Ira Wolf Tuton, joined as the group’s bassist, and drummer Luke Fasano was the last member to climb aboard in May 2006. The band set to work on recording its debut album, All Hour Cymbals, which was unveiled to much critical acclaim (not to mention a healthy blogosphere buzz) in October 2007. International tour dates followed, during which the band honed its blend of live instrumentation and prerecorded samples.
I heartily recommend you check out the album “All Hour Cymbals” which is available on Spotify here. Songs definitely worthy of a mention include “2080″ and “Germs”. Whatever you do approach this band with an open mind, and let the gentle passive/aggressive lyrics soothe your soul!
