Man Sues Comcast For 'Always On' Claim

said by telcolackey5:

Just more anti-Comcast news from BBR.

said by FiL:

So this ISN'T Broadband news???.....

said by Mike:

In that case submit a news story of your own if you do not like what our editors pick.

said by Mike:

In that case submit a news story of your own if you do not like what our editors pick.

said by Ahrenl:

Please let me know if you find a "fair and balanced" news source, ANYWHERE..

said by MysticGogeta:

Not from Fox.

said by telcolackey5:

Just more anti-Comcast news from BBR.

said by exocet_cm:

Just more anti-Comcast Broadband related news from BBR news.com relayed via BBR.

Corrected your comment for ya telcolackey5 .

said by telcolackey5:

You would make a good BBR moderator. Need to ensure the anti-corp message stays strong! I think there is something in the BBR TOS which says this and anyone disagreeing with this position will be banned. Or was that AT&T

Nobody in their right mind could interpret that as meaning that your connection would never go down, right? Wrong.

said by telcolackey5:

Just more anti-Comcast news from BBR.

said by Jim Gurd:

This is why companies are forcing customers into arbitration agreements.

said by pnh102:

Didn't this guy read the part of his contract that said that service is not guaranteed? I think this is also mentioned in all of Comcast's ads.

said by Sean:

Let me ask you: did YOU read YOUR contract?

said by pnh102:

Didn't this guy read the part of his contract that said that service is not guaranteed? I think this is also mentioned in all of Comcast's ads.

said by imusuallyon :

honestly the news here is no more then telco astroturfing. right up their with the national enquirer. good job Karl. is this site funded by the telcos ?????

said by imusuallyon :

honestly the news here is no more then telco astroturfing. right up their with the national enquirer. good job Karl. is this site funded by the telcos ?????

said by imusuallyon :

honestly the news here is no more then telco astroturfing. right up their with the national enquirer. good job Karl. is this site funded by the telcos ?????

said by Tzale:

This is so stupid.... Think about it, it's ALWAYS ON when the service is UP! DUH!!!! It's not ALWAYS ON if the service goes down, and since Comcast doesn't go out of their way to turn off the service when nothing is wrong, this lawsuit is frivolous.

-Tzale

said by jmn1207:

If Comcast can be persnickety in their legal jargon with regards to network "management", why can't the customers hold Comcast's marketing department to the same standards? Corporations have more rights than individuals. If only I could incorporate myself...

said by AtomicZero:

Because of the word: Reasonable. And what this lawsuit is about is UNreasonable. No technology is infallible.

said by hhuck:

People, please, our country and it's courts fall for this shit every day.....

For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella
Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the
McDonald's in New Mexico where she purchased the coffee. You remember,
she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she
was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that,
right?

That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish
lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you
scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy.

Here are the Stella's for the past year:

7TH PLACE:
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a
jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was
running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised
by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

6TH PLACE:
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus
medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda
Accord.
Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the
car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
Go ahead, grab your head scratcher.

5TH PLACE:
Terrence Dickson, of Bristol, Pennsylvania, who was leaving
a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for
Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get
the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the
door connecting the garage to the hou se locked when Dickson pulled it
shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT, days on a case of Pepsi
and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance
company claiming undue mental Anguish.
Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay
Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.
Keep scratching. There are more...

4TH PLACE:
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock , Arkansas , garnered 4th
Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after
being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though
the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get
as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have
been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed
over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet
gun.
Grrrrr ... Scratch, scratch.

3RD PLACE:
Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered
a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a
spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during
an argum ent. What ever happened to people being responsible for their
own actions?
Scratch, scratch, scratch. Hang in there; there are only two
more Stella Ts to go...

2ND PLACE:
Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night
club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor,
knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to
sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover
charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah,
plus dental expenses. Go figure.

1ST PLACE: (May I have a fanfare played on 50 kazoos
pleas e)
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv
Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor
home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on
to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the
driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a
sandwich Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed
and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not
putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the
driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury
awarded her, are you sitting down?, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago
actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs.
Grazinski has any rel atives who might also buy a motor home.

said by hhuck:

For those unfamiliar with these awardsThe Oklahoma jury
awarded her, are you sitting down?, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any rel atives who might also buy a motor home.