Chicago Woman Sues McDonalds

I'd like to know what the lasting injuries are...

Also the pain and discomfort, I doubt a 2 year old understands much about condoms.

Stupid lawsuit all the way around. I hate how people just wait for something to happen so they can cash in. I say charge the mom with negligence and child endangerment for not watching her kid close enough to keep them from eating a condom, see how bad she wants to pursue the lawsuit then. 

Am I the only one thinking "Only $50K?"  Not that the amount, or the lawsuit, is justified, but I would have thought a bigger number would be attached.

I agree with this. Plus I have 2 kiddos and neither one of them at any age would have eaten a condom. Even at 2 they would have known better. Stupid people and their kids. Grrr

Seriously, how can you miss seeing your kids going to the ground, picking up a condom and eating it?  That's right, it's called not paying a lick of attention to your kids.

Jeffrey Deutschman is a well known Plaintiff attorney around Chicago.

That's all I'll say.

Yeah, I guess, I don't know how her kids will grow up.....my point is how filthy those places are. 

I've had a couple of occasions to be in those"play areas".....I don't know who thought it was a good idea to have toddlers eating chicken, meat, greasy fries, etc. and then go crawling around on play equipment that rarely gets cleaned, much less disinfected, from the other little grubby crushers crawling around on it with food all over themselves.....but that's disgusting.

Do you all overlook the disgusting fact that SOMEBODY HAD SEX AND LEFT A USED CONDOM IN A PLAYGROUND?

Blaming the "idiot parents" and the "idiot kids" is pretty misguided...Sure I should worry about many things at McDonalds- but my child even finding a sperm-filled condom should not be one of those things.

This is disgusting.

You must have children and do inspections every time you visit a business or friends' homes for 3rd party sperm.  If you don't have kids and you don't do inspections, then your post is warrantless and you should smack your head a few more times.

Edited to add:

If this were any other business, I am sure they would get sued also.  This isn't a bag on McD's issue.

Any parent who has had a 2-year old suffer any degree of injury must be an irresponsible parent, to hear some of the comments in this thread. I don't know whether or not the suit has merit, but I do know that it is possible for a parent to be watching a 2-year old and have something happen to the child at the same time. I don't know what happened here, and neither do any of the other commenters to this thread.

Probably the issue is something like, and I don't know legal terms, who exercised reasonable care? If there was a condom on the floor in the childrens' play area, it seems fairly certain that McDonalds did not. What we don't know, is if the mother exercised reasonable care.

Isn't having a nanny taking care of the kids taking the blame off the parent and placing it on someone else as well?

Didn't read the link, but the norm is to merely plead an amount of damages in excess of the jurisdictional limit of the court (as opposed to what used to be called "limited" civil, out here the cutoff is $25K).  It's not a limit, it's a floor, just gets you in the door.

i'm glad someone with kids weighed in on this, cause i figured my reaction of "i didn't realize a parent could never take their eyes off of their child EVER" was going to get met with a "obviously you don't have kids."

i think this story is certainly very icky and gross and not lawsuit-worthy, but this is america so we sue at will and judge strangers for things we have probably done ourselves (i have seen PLENTY of parents not paying attention fervently for the entire time their children are playing at a park/playground/mcds/friend's house/etc etc etc)