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Some people are just totally stupid |
We've all heard a lot about kids on coke...but what about Coke on kids?
Strictly speaking, 21-year-old Kevin Mackle (some news articles say he was 19), a student at Bishop's University in Quebec, wasn't really a kid when he came home drunk from a night of "binge drinking" and -- in a misguided attempt to steal a can of soda pop -- rocked a 920-pound Coke machine and sent it tipping over upon himself. Mackle, in layman's terms, was squished to death.
By the way, Coke machines DO NOT FALL OVER on people who are using them the way they were meant to be used.
If this were your kid, you'd be devastated, right? I can't imagine anything more painful than the death of a child. Unfortunately, mourning the loss of a loved one causes some people to do some very strange things. Mackle's parents -- in a misguided attempt to assuage their grief by lining their pockets with cash -- have chosen to sue Coca-Cola, Bishop's University, the company which manufactured the machine (the Vendo Company) and the vending company that owned it (Beaver Foods). They filed a statement in the Quebec Superior Court in May 2001, alleging that their son's death could have been prevented if the machine had been drunk-and-thief-proofed.
Amen.
Source: cloakdoa
