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Our pickles won't hurt you, McDonald's maintains
By RANDY KENNER
Scripps Howard News Service
November 22, 2000
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A lawyer for a local McDonald's has filed court papers stating that its pickles are harmless and did not burn a local
woman's chin.
MAR Inc., owner of McDonald's restaurants in the Knoxville area, made the statement in its answer to a $125,000 lawsuit filed against it earlier
this year by a woman who claimed she was burned by a hot pickle.
MAR filed its answer earlier this month in Knox County Circuit Court in response to a personal injury lawsuit filed in October by Veronica M.
Martin and her husband Darrin which claims she was injured by a pickle on a small McDonald's hamburger.
Specifically, Martin contends that her husband and she purchased several small hamburgers Oct. 6, 1999, at one of MAR's McDonald's.
When she began to eat one of the burgers, according to the lawsuit, a hot pickle fell from the hamburger onto her chin, causing a second-degree
burn that has left a permanent scar.
The couple claim the hamburger was "in a defective condition or unreasonably dangerous to the general consumer," in addition to breaching an
implied warranty that it was safe.
In its answer, MAR Inc. said that its products are safe and flatly denied that Mrs. Martin was injured by anything she bought from McDonald's.
The two-page answer also denies that the pickle caused a second-degree burn to Martin and denies she has incurred medical bills, lost wages
or suffered mental and physical pain as a result of eating the hamburger.
It also denies that Martin has been deprived of the "services and consortium" of his wife because of the alleged injury.
(Contact Randy Kenner of The Knoxville News-Sentinel in Tennessee at knoxnews.com.) |
