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Would that I had u235's category, this would be posted under such a heading. Let's see... woman works for Wal-Mart, she has Wal-Marts health insurance, woman gets plowed by a semi truck and is left disabled. Got it?

Wal-Mart pays up for medical coverage. Hooray! Debbie Shank was left with no short term memory and pretty much needs constant care from a nursing home due to brain damage and paralysis. The Shank family says that medical bills were paid promptly. But then...

Wal-Mart decided to sue the Shank family. Why? Because of a clause in the medical coverage, claiming the right right to recoup medical expenses if the employee also receives money for damages from a lawsuit.

So here we have Mrs Shank. Her life was shattered by this accident, so the family sues and settles with the semi truck drivers company, gets some money (awarded $900k, ended up with $400k in a trust fund after legal fees were paid), along with Wal-Mart covering her medical expenses. Wal-Mart says (more or less) "Uh... guess you've got the money to handle things yourself - we need ours back now".

Wal-Mart wants just what it cost to pay for the medical bills (some $450k), plus some interest... oh, and don't forget those legal fees. You can't forget those.

Wal-Mart's excuse (and completely legal standing) is that this is necessary to protect the Wal-Mart employees who are still paying money for coverage. So they're trying to be fair to current employees, who might be scammed by others who would bilk the system for cash.

Ennnh...

You don't treat your employees like sweat shop labor, while grandstanding under the American flag with goods purchased from China and then claim to be doing "what's fair for your workers".

Every day and in every way, Wal-Mart flies its middle finger in the air at the very people who support its four red, white, and blue walls and they eat it up. Indeed... fuck you.

http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/news/20050816-spd.html

WICHITA, Kansas (AP) -- A 35-year-old woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for so long that her body was stuck to the seat had a phobia about leaving the bathroom, the boyfriend said.

She was there for so long, her skin grew around the seat. I'll leave you with that.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/13/woman.in.bathroom.ap/index.html

And it is a cupie doll photo retouching of toddlers to create a real-life black velvet doe eyed painting gone... well... gone even worse.

http://naturalbeautiescontest.homestead.com/retouch4a.html

Behold and despair.

Heh.

No no no. It's really not a monster movie, but it should be. From PlasticBamboo.com:

Apparently, McDonald’s Japan are so delighted with the success of their limited Mega Mac 4 burger Big Mac, that they’ve decided to extend the period of availability. Sales of the Mega Mac have more than doubled expected sales with 3.32 million sold in just 4 days. Chomp chomp!

The Mega Mac. Four paddies o' meat. As if the original wasn't enough, you now get twice the beef and all of the calories. Evidently this is an item that is only available in test markets, such as Japan. But you have to ask...

1. Why Japan? Wouldn't a place such as... I dunno... Texas be more synonymous with the idea of "bigger = better"?
2. Does Japan want to be so much like the West, that they're willing to kill themselves with fast food too?

It might be my own ethnocentric view of the world, but I always thought that Japanese cuisine was more about health and simplicity. I guess ever since Takeru Kobayashi took the World Hot Dog Eating Championship title, things just have never been the same.

Of course this is nothing compared to things like the Triple Whopper. That just looks painful.