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Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking
An anonymous reader writes "ABC News is reporting that a California woman is suing Toyota for $10 million for sending her email that appeared to be from a criminal stalker. The woman claims the emails terrified her to the point that she suffered sleeplessness, poor work performance, etc. Toyota says the ruse was part of a marketing campaign for the Toyota Matrix. A Toyota spokesman says they are not liable for the woman's distress, because 'The person who made this claim specifically opted in, granting her permission to receive campaign emails and other communications from Toyota.'"
Oh, and how European is it to assume her fright is solely because of her alleged illegal activity? FFS comments like these make me hate Europeans regardless if the poster is actually European. Please, please come take away our guns and please tell me that my fear is caused by my non-compliance with the established laws. I will be one of the dead men that you will be prying a gun from my cold hands.
"Be prepared, son. That's my motto. Be prepared." --Joe Hallenbeck
What is the money amount going to punish? They just calculate it into marketing budget.
You need something else than will actually punish the companies. Otherwise they just calculate the Return On Investment and include that in to them. And individuals will come and try to sue hoping an easy way to get rich (after hearing about the women who drop hot coffee on herself and sued McDonalds because they didnt warn *coffee* was *hot*)
What is with the 'victimization' culture these days?
Grow a pair and just ignore it, or call the cops if you're really that scared of junk mail.
I think if she isn't in some sort of self defense class now, the court should throw her case out as she obviously wasn't scared enough to change anything about her life. Seriously, if she was ACTUALLY scared of some random person from Europe, what about the thug around the corner? Surely she'd want to learn to protect herself.
But of course she won't because she wasn't actually scared.
She's just as pathetic as the advertising company IMHO.
The judge that ruled on this was the biggest moron ever. How he passed the bar with no brain is beyond me.
That little bastard that stole is kike father's balloon is fucking dead.
That kid is nothing more than a smear on the pavement now.
to taking dicks in their asses and being infected with aids.
RTFA
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Just like you have opted in to viewing kittens.
Mods, this is called "troll", not "insightful".
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I suspect (but do not know) that once we see the actual emails there's no way on earth anyone with an IQ above retarded would believe it was real.
Do you really believe that counts? There is no common sense in the US courts. Just see the "Warning! Hot coffee is hot!" sign in McDonalds.
Nope. Don't got it.
Break it down into parts, if you would, like I did.
Are am I to infer that sending something to someone directly is the key difference? Or what component of it makes it that way?
'know it when I see it' only works for Supreme Court Justices...
I suspect (but do not know) that once we see the actual emails there's no way on earth anyone with an IQ above retarded would believe it was real. Have you ever seen one of these campaigns? Even imbeciles know they're fake.
die you racist scum
I don't know why people choose to defend corporations over the people they hurt
Because ....
1) most of the time people suing corporations are lazy people that want to get rich
2) there is generally a socialist agenda behind criticism of corporations from certain outlets
3) you can't sue the government, unless it gives you permission
Like, I love how you can sue insurance companies left and right, and sue everyone else in health care, but can you sue Social Security? Can you sue Medicare? Can you sue the Federal Reserve for its banks?
This is my sig.
Are you implying that his statement was somehow incoherent due to his use of a "recursive list"? Recursion is a lot of things but "not logically connected" isn't one of them.