A customer has filed a negligence lawsuit against Dunkin’, claiming he was injured by an exploding toilet at one of the coffee chain’s locations in central Florida.
Paul Kerouac is seeking more than $100,000 in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in state court in Orlando, claiming he suffered “severe and long term injuries” following the explosion of a toilet in the men’s room of a Dunkin’ location in Winter Park, Florida, a year ago.
After the explosion left Kerouac covered in human feces, urine and debris, he walked out of the men’s room seeking help from workers and the store’s manager, according to the lawsuit. An employee told him that they were aware of the “problem with the toilet” since there had been previous incidents, the lawsuit says, without diving into further details about the explosion.
Funny headline, but the porcelain is incredibly sharp and this sounds terrifying. I’ve definitely read stories about morbidly obese people breaking toilets from the weight and then being sliced to pieces as gravity kicks in. Imagine not only getting sliced open but then having your wounds coated in urine and fecal matter.
I’ll take “Fears I never thought I’d have” for $1000, Alex
In my last apartment, the flush lever broke and I couldn’t be arsed to call maintenance, so I popped over to the hardware store and grabbed a replacement for 5 bucks. As I was putting the lid back on after installing the replacement, it shattered into 3 huge shards in my hand while I was holding it, for no apparent reason. One of those shards cut deep into the side of my hand like a hot knife through butter, right where my pinky met my palm. Barely avoided severing a nerve, and I still have a visible scar where it cut me.
Porcelain is no fucking joke, man.
Just $100K? If that had happened to me, Dublin would be paying me in the millions just for the settlement amount.
I don’t understand what Ireland has to do with this
Dunkin’ is headquartered in Massachusetts and is VERY popular in that state. Dunkin’s massive popularity in Massachusetts is arguably the reason Dunkin’ is a successful company.
Massachusetts has the largest population of Irish immigrants in the United States. Irish Americans were therefore critical to growing Dunkin’. Without the Irish, Dunkin wouldn’t exist, and this incident would not have occurred.
Dublin is the capital of Ireland, and that is where the Irish president sits. That’s the obvious best place to ask for compensation from the nation.
Personally, I blame Kevin Bacon
But why male models?
Yeah that makes sense I guess. Who knew Dublin was such an important player?
One time I was staying at a KOA campground and the urinal I was standing in front of fell off the wall, broke when it hit the ground, and the porcelain cut my thigh about 6 inches. In hindsight I’m lucky it didn’t chop my manhood off, or sever my femoral artery. Haven’t thought about that in years. Probably could have and should have sued them because I needed a bunch of stitches and it could have seriously maimed me.
How the fuck does a toilet just friggin explode.
Skibidi Toilet, more like Skibidi bop mm dada
He def got a good Dunkin’g
“No shit?”
“Actually, all the shit.”
- convo with the employees after the incident probably
Was Florida Man flushing M80s again?
Toilets can break, fall, shatter, etc and cause injury, but generally won’t explode without some help.
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Here’s the lawsuit for those interested; not a lot to it, barely 4 pages, and most of it was in the article. They don’t really go into more detail. This part was funny though…I would not want to be the victim of the exploding toilet.
c. Negligently failing to warn or adequately warn Plaintiff of the gander of the mens’ room toilet, when Defendant knew or should have known that the toilet was unreasonably dangerous, leaving Plaintiff unaware of the danger.
- As a direct result of Defendant’s breach and/or multiple breaches of its duties and obligations to Plaintiff, who was lawfully on Defendant’s premises, Plaintiff unwittingly became the victim of the exploding toilet and of the aftermath which followed, and sustained damages, including injuries and emotional and mental distress.
https://www.scribd.com/document/696493827/Dunkin-Donuts-Being-Sued#from_embed
c. Negligently failing to warn or adequately warn Plaintiff of the gander of the mens’ room toilet…
Well, there you go: summary judgment to the Plaintiff. If you don’t tell your customers that there’s a fucking HATEFUL COBRA TURKEY keeping jealous possession of the Mens’ loo, like some latter-day dragon guarding its hoard, you deserve to be sued at the very least, and just for starters until greater commensurate punitive action can be determined.
@PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works , this was initially to be a playful ribbing of what I’d thought was a typo oversight, on your part, of transcribing text from the court document.
But seeing that it’s the actual text of the filing absolves you, and makes the typo oversight that much funnier.
Florida never fails to entertain and disappoint.
New fear unlocked
Sounds like the toilet finally got it’s revenge
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Paul Kerouac…of course Orlando has Jack Kerouac’s home. Not too far from Winter Park.
What a shitty situation.
