Get a bit extra on your burger, and sue McD's...
Charleston Daily MailBut he didn't actually, you know, LOOK at the burger as a final check."We're interested in seeing McDonald's take responsibility and change a systemic quality control problem that endangers the lives of up to 12 million Americans with allergies," said Timothy Houston, the Morgantown lawyer representing the plaintiffs.
Houston said his clients were in Morgantown in October 2005 and stopped at the Star City McDonald's on the way home to Clarksburg. Jeromy Jackson was living with his mother at the time.
Jeromy did his part to make it known he didn't want cheese on the hamburgers because he is allergic, Houston said.
He told a worker through the ordering speaker and then two workers face-to-face at the pay and pick-up windows that he couldn't eat cheese, Houston said.
"By my count, he took at least five independent steps to make sure that thing had no cheese on it," Houston said. "And it did and almost cost him his life."
After getting the food, the three drove to Clarksburg and started to eat the food in a darkened room where they were going to watch a movie, Houston said.
Well, I feel for the guy... But it seems to me if he's known he's got this allergy for a long time, yet made a practice of buying from McDonald's before, to the point where he completely trusts the crew to correctly serve him something that could potentially kill him and chow down on it without looking to see if the deadly item was added, he's playing Russian Roulette with the cheese factor.
And really, a visual inspection would have taken what, three seconds? It's not like the cheese isn't noticeable, after all!
J.