Kitchen sink stink
10/03/06 03:49 PM
Cripes, it's always something.
St. Louis-based Emerson, maker of InSinkErator, is suing NBC's new Heroes series for showing its famed garbage disposal in a bad light.
That's because indestructible Odessa, TX teenager Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere) intentionally mangled her hand in one to see if it would instantly heal. It did, but Emerson isn't applauding. The company's lawsuit, first reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, says that showing the InSinkErator brand in the scene "casts the disposer in an unsavory light, irreparably tarnishing the product." It's wrong to suggest that serious injuries will occur "in the event consumers were to accidentally insert their hand into one," Emerson contends.
Um, won't serious injuries occur? Doesn't everyone pretty much know that? Isn't InSinkErator known for grinding stuff into pulp? If it didn't, would there be millions of satisfied customers?
No? Well, excuse me then, because unclebarky.com could use a little extra cash flow. So I'm going to go light a burner on our Jenn-Air oven, stick my palm over it and wait for at least a second degree burn to kick in. But hey, how was I to know this would happen? So sue me. No, on the contrary, I'll sue them. And then I'll go on Geraldo at Large to plead my case. It's called being in sync with our times.
Ed Bark
St. Louis-based Emerson, maker of InSinkErator, is suing NBC's new Heroes series for showing its famed garbage disposal in a bad light.
That's because indestructible Odessa, TX teenager Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere) intentionally mangled her hand in one to see if it would instantly heal. It did, but Emerson isn't applauding. The company's lawsuit, first reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, says that showing the InSinkErator brand in the scene "casts the disposer in an unsavory light, irreparably tarnishing the product." It's wrong to suggest that serious injuries will occur "in the event consumers were to accidentally insert their hand into one," Emerson contends.
Um, won't serious injuries occur? Doesn't everyone pretty much know that? Isn't InSinkErator known for grinding stuff into pulp? If it didn't, would there be millions of satisfied customers?
No? Well, excuse me then, because unclebarky.com could use a little extra cash flow. So I'm going to go light a burner on our Jenn-Air oven, stick my palm over it and wait for at least a second degree burn to kick in. But hey, how was I to know this would happen? So sue me. No, on the contrary, I'll sue them. And then I'll go on Geraldo at Large to plead my case. It's called being in sync with our times.
Ed Bark
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