Posted on 03/14/2013 8:45:30 PM PDT by grundle
CHICAGO (STMW) — A diner at a Gage Park neighborhood McDonald’s is suing the fast food giant, claiming her young child ate a used condom he found in the restaurant’s play area.
Anishi Spencer filed the suit Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of herself and her young sons, Jacquel and Jonathan Hines.
Jonathan, then 3, and Jacquel, 2, were visiting the restaurant at 5733 S. Kezie Ave. on Feb. 4, 2012, when they allegedly found the used condom on the play area floor, Spencer claims in the suit.
The mother claims Jacquel later coughed up a piece of the condom, the suit says. Both toddlers had to receive medical treatment because of the incident.
The suit accuses McDonalds Corp. and McDonalds of Illinois of failing to properly clean hazardous debris from an area used by children.
It also blames the restaurant chain for not using surveillance or inspections to uncover any “deviant activities” at its eatery.
A message left with spokespersons for the Oak Brook-based corporation were not immediately returned Wednesday night.
The three-count premises liability suit claims negligence, and seeks compensation for the children’s medical treatment. It seeks at least $50,000 in damages.
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Probably happened at one of Chicago’s finer McDonalds....
OK, that is really gross. And I guess that a person who lets their 2-3 year-olds play unattended in a McDonald’s playground clearly has a warped view of the ability of a poorly-paid restaurant employee to keep the play area in a pristine condition, and therefore apparently DID think that there could be absolutely no way any person could drop anything dangerous.
In the real world, there are a lot of items that are hazardous to that age child that could be expected to be found in the play area, including discarded wrappers from food sold in the restaurant, buttons that might come loose, spit-up food, old french fries and apple pieces, gum wrappers, and even safety pins, bobby pins, and the like.
Well, it is referred to as a play area.
It’s the fault of the mother who failed to supervise her children. If there is surveillance video, then it should show her talking/texting on her cell phone and probably the kids ate it out of the garbage at home hours earlier. It’s not something kids would chew up and ingest, so the whole thing sounds staged.
You’re bad—LOL!
Was it in the ball pen?
The moron parent should be jailed for failing to keep their litter from munching on the gross stuff. Oh, and do something about the condom as well.
exactly what i was going to say!
HOW did it get there otherwise??
And the roach I brought in is in my salad. Lawsuit.
What if the kid found it in his mom’s purse, or found it earlier in their house and just decided to eat it then with “lunch”?
exactly what i was going to say!
HOW did it get there otherwise??
I’d guess it is a scam also.
McDs will get sued, regardless. It’s part of being in business.
‘I’m forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air’
It’s called “parenting” for a reason. Small children will put almost anything in their mouth (dried feces, dead bugs, mud, rocks, buttons etc). It’s a “parent’s” responsibility to watch their children, not McDonald’s.
This is the Democrat’s viewpoint of “it takes a village”; no it doesn’t. It takes a parent with exercises “personal responsibility” to watch over their children, at home, in public, and yes .... even in play areas.
After Anishi wins her suit she’ll name her next kid Trowgenz.
What too many people ignore is that the African village is historically comprised of a large, extended *family*-—nearly everyone is related to someone else.
In other words, the “village” largely, if not entirely, consists of a child’s blood relations—aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc.
If a two or three year old attempted to swallow a condom, he would have been choking.
“If a two or three year old attempted to swallow a condom, he would have been choking”
It may have been lubricated.
Wow, that’s some kind of Happy Meal.
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