Girl Claims Price Scanner Gave Her Tourette's Syndrome

Attorneys for Dominica Juliano claim that she was burned and developed psychological problems after a store clerk aimed a hand-held price scanner at her face. Store attorneys say their scanners uses a harmless LED light and that the girl had serious health problems before she was scanned. From the article: "Dominica Juliano was 12 when she and her grandmother entered the Country Fair store in Erie in June 2004. A clerk allegedly called the girl 'grumpy' before flashing his hand-held bar code scanner over her face and telling her to smile. Attorneys for Ms. Juliano and her guardian say the girl was sensitive to light and burned, and later developed post-traumatic stress and Tourette's syndrome."

Comments

Re:Damn!

[Hognoxious]

99% of slashdotters have tourette's, and thanks to you they'll all be in here explaining that it doesn't just make people swear, and why they're such better geeks because of it. Thanks a bastard bunch, pissass.

Wilfull ignorance of technology and medicine

[Arancaytar]

Thank you again, pseudo-science.

No one appreciates what happened here.

[Wilson_6500]

Does nobody else realize that the clerk attempted to scan the poor child? Didn't you people see the movie? I know that I would probably be scarred for life if someone tried to explode my head.

Wait. A BARCODE scanner?

Re:Fire that Judge

[timmarhy]

how are you going to make them do that? they will just declare they are bankrupt. this system allows anyone to do massive air swings hoping for a pay off at no personal cost to them at all.

this bitch will just go back to living in the trailer park if she fails.

Re:Litigation Land

[ShakaUVM]

Whether it's better or not, just because you really want to believe something doesn't make it true.

As Neitzsche said, "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

Christians believe in something that might be true. Atheists believe in something that is obviously untrue (the non-existence of self). I'm not saying you believe in this, but this turns out to be the only consistent stance that atheists fall into when they start talking about the afterlife. They do this to avoid the unavoidable consequence that based on the fact that we exist, and didn't exist before we were born, the evidence is actually on the side of religious people of various stripes that we'll exist again after we die.

I'm summarizing years of arguments here, not saying that you believe in whatever, since I obviously don't know what you believe.

Re:From a neurological standpoint...

[Archangel Michael]

"there are generally no easy fixes for them."

Yes there are. We just don't take the "easy" road, instead we tend to make excuses for bad or antisocial behavior such as bad childhood, mean parents, fluke of nature or "Christian Nazi Ethics".

So, now we're filled with a society of narcissistic sociopaths and we tolerate their behavior so we don't look like 1950's TV show because ... we'll because we're one of them (narcissistic sociopaths), but haven't quite fully rejected the very thing we are protesting.

Meanwhile we expect everyone else to adhere to our particular set of morals because .... well ... who knows why, they just should!

So, we're left with the narcissistic sociopaths, because we can't actually rebuke people for doing exactly what we want to do.