You're on Candid Court.. Beotch! (895 hits)
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Submitted by BerZerK (View user info) at 2003-08-29 13:22:38 EDT
Did you guys hear about this guy who just sued Candid Camera?
Philip Zelnick was at an airport in Arizona when he was asked by security
personel to lie on the airport bag checker and be scanned himself by the machine.
He asked the guard (the host of the show in costume) where the Candid Camera
was. He was then ignored and sent through the machine several times.
Mr. Zelnick sued Candid Camera for battery, negligence, false imprisonment,
misrepresentation and infliction of emotional distress.
He won $300,000.00.
Can you believe this douche bag? He says that not only did he sustain injuries
in the machine, which several other people were safely put through, but that he
was anxious, distressed and humiliated.
This is like that woman who sued the show Scare Tactics and two of her good friends
for a fake alien that tried to abduct her and scared her senseless on the show.
Is reality T.V. going to far or are people just way too sensitive?
Any thoughts?
-BerZ
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Submitted by Falconer (user info) at 2004-06-06 06:36:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Both.
Submitted by Matthew <matthew.at.noblest.org> at 2004-06-06 06:03:49 EDT (#)
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I think the person who thought up this idea needs to get shot. I think Reality TV people are like: "Let's figure out some roundabout way of committing some random crime today!" I mean, they were holding up ACTUAL flights and people who needed to get to their destinations for a stupid prank? NOT cool. I would have asked for his supervisor, and sued them as well. I wonder if anyone else did it.
Submitted by NotApologizing (user info) at 2003-12-16 15:06:52 EST (#)
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By the way, the man show boy is fed lines through an earpeice. Watch closely next time and you'll see...
It's a complete fake and the comments reek of Jimmy and Adam (or those other 2 fucks if they're still doing that bit).
Submitted by Meredithz (user info) at 2003-12-16 14:56:54 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
The fact that you find the physical injury of a person is truly sick, the photos and video are available because they are part of a public access court case. Read the facts before making judgement, also your $ is wrong, the airport settled, as did PAX TV, your $ amount is for only 2 of the defendants. For those who would have left the airport, good for you, this was not an option, as there is only the One flight, it was Father's Day weekend, and he had a son waiting for him on the other end. Get your facts right, otherwise you sound like an idiot
Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2003-10-28 16:06:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Where the heck are you? Why do you make me worry?
BERZ - YOU OUT THERE????
Submitted by elhooligan (user info) at 2003-09-18 13:31:59 EDT (#)
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Fuck if some asswipe, no name TV show tried to screw me over I'd sue them. And if I didn't win, I'd perpetrate some manner of violent act against anyone I could find related to that show. Actual injury is irrelevant. What gives those fuckers the right to fuck with any of us? Don't get me wrong -- I laugh when "The Man Show" boy harasses random people on the street -- but if he fucked with me I would kick him square in the nuts and laugh when his fat ass doubled over.
I say sue those fuckers for all they're worth. First off, they are ass clowns because they produce such shitty television. Secondly, they are fucking with unsuspecting people.
"We are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world...Do not fuck with us."
Submitted by Lisa (user info) at 2003-09-18 13:25:06 EDT (#)
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Reality TV is shit, I say rape the producers for all the money they have.
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2003-09-18 13:22:14 EDT (#)
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Interesting.
If he was infact injured, I think a settlement is warranted.
Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2003-09-18 13:18:43 EDT (#)
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I think it's both. Alllllllll depends.
I can't believe Scare Tactics is allowed to be on the air, or exists at all, and I can see it ending as soon as someone has a heart attack or a stroke. It's only a matter of time. I can invision herds of lawyers watching the show drooling all over themselves in anticipation.
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2003-08-29 15:01:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i JUST REALIZED THAT CANDID CAMERA, A SHOW FROM THE 50'S ORIGINALY, WAS THE FIRST REALITY SHOW.
HIREALBERZ.
WHATS DOIN?
Submitted by marc (user info) at 2003-08-29 14:32:34 EDT (#)
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um does it make me a evil person if i admitt that i would do the same thing . i mean come on even if i found it funnny (which i did and would) dam it i dont want to work in a cubical all my life. i would use the chance to get ahead for free. ofcourse i agree with manfre and think people who make the "reality" tv shows need to be drawn, quartered, castrated, dipped in salt water, and then left out in the middle of the desert to fucking fry.
Submitted by BerZerK (user info) at 2003-08-29 14:21:01 EDT (#)
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I just love the irony that he was humiliated, yet the picture of him
in the act is so readily available.
-BerZ
Submitted by Manfre (user info) at 2003-08-29 14:01:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I got a good reality show for ya. Well call it Foot In Ass.
See the premise is that anyone who comes out with a new season or a new show of a "reality show" get my foot thoroughly lodged up their ass. So thoroughly that surgery will be required to remove my shoe.
Submitted by FATMANTPK (user info) at 2003-08-29 13:46:36 EDT (#)
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I think I can answer "Yes" to both questions.
Reality TV blows, and it sometimes goes too far.
Also, there seems to be a mentality in our country these days that you can sue anyone, for anything.
Submitted by Natophelia (user info) at 2003-08-29 13:44:17 EDT (#)
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Way too sensitive and dumb for going for most of this stuff. However I did see one where they had a lion sit in a guy's driveway and waited for him to come out. Poor old guy was so scared he froze stiff until the trainer finally came over and said 'haha just kidding'yuckyuck. NOT fucking funny!
Submitted by Illicit_Joe (user info) at 2003-08-29 13:34:06 EDT (#)
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Yeah, I was watching the trial on court tv, didn't see a verdict though. I thought he would win cause jurys are dumbfucks. I would have walked out of the airport.
Submitted by BerZerK (user info) at 2003-08-29 13:32:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Sorry, no, I should have included that it was a fake X-ray machine
that was designed to look like all the others. There was no radiation.
-BerZ
Submitted by lowsodiummonkey (user info) at 2003-08-29 13:29:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I don't care what you say, but going through an X-ray baggage machine cannot be good (hopefully the prank included turning it off). The jerk-off is so embarassed that he went through because now he realizes that he would jump off a bridge when someone would tell him to do it.
Submitted by BerZerK (user info) at 2003-08-29 13:29:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Ha Ha.
Yes, I have mixed feelings about it.
I think that he is an utter douche, but I also think that maybe this
particular prank was way too physical, leaving them open for legal action.
-BerZ
Submitted by hendrixjrr (user info) at 2003-08-29 13:25:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I think if anything, we can all look at that picture and laugh uncontrollably