Karen Tumeh Sues McDonalds
When McDonald's first began shoving grub through a drive-through window, it probably didn't realize it was entering into a sacred pact with the public in which it would forever be expected to make unreasonable accommodations to food seeking drivers regardless of the circumstances, practical application, or its ability to make any money in the venture. Profit being a dirty word these days.
From FoxNews.com:
A hearing-impaired woman filed a federal lawsuit against a local McDonald's, saying workers refused to let her order food at the drive-thru window.Something that is not mentioned is why the McDonald's refused her service?
Karen Tumeh of Lincoln says they insisted she either order at the electronic speaker along the drive-thru lane or come inside to order.
Tumeh wears a hearing aid but still cannot hear while using the drive-thru ordering box at fast-food restaurants, according to the lawsuit.
At least three times since September 2007 workers at a Lincoln McDonald's refused to let her place her order at the drive-thru window, Tumeh said.
While Ms. Tumeh and her lawyers would like to make it sound that the calloused restaurant turned her away because of some prejudice against her disability, it does not mention how many times Ms. Tumeh's order had been screwed up in the past because of shoddy communications, or how long it typically takes for Tumeh to place an order when she cannot hear. If she was denied three times there has to be two sides to that story.
In denying her service, McDonald's violated the federal Americans With Disabilities Act, she said. Tumeh's lawsuit seeks to force McDonald's to make accommodations for hearing-impaired people to order food in restaurant drive-thrus.So what is it, Ms. Tumeh? Do you want the McDonald's franchise in your area to accommodate you because of your hearing or accommodate you because of your children's disabilities?
She also seeks unspecified damages and attorney's fees. McDonald's corporate headquarters did not immediately return a message seeking comment Tuesday by The Associated Press.
Tumeh is physically capable of walking inside to order, but that's not the point, her attorney, Shirley Ann Mora James, said Tuesday.
"She has children who are autistic, and if they're having difficulties, it would make it problematic for her," Mora James said.
A hat tip to Van Helsing at Moonbattery who says:
This is the sort of insanity the deranged ADA made inevitable. The apparent main objective is to keep the lawyers who bankroll the Democrat Party floating in cash.Maybe if you win this lawsuit you can pay someone else to go inside for you.
Another purpose of the ADA is to establish anyone who claims to be defective as a superior citizen, whose whims can be dictated to society at large, regardless of the cost to others.
3 comments:
"So what is it, Ms. Tumeh? Do you want the McDonald's franchise in your area to accommodate you because of your hearing or accommodate you because of your children's disabilities?"
Thank you for this comment! Duh! The lawyer (who works for a taxpayer-funded organization) is trying to drum up sympathy by using the kids as leverage in this frivolous lawsuit. The ADA wasn't created to give entitlement to every person who doesn't have the abilities of Lance Armstrong, and it certainly wasn't created to protect mothers of autistic children from the inconvenience of parking a car and walking inside a McDonald's.
It's not often that a major corporation is a poor victim, but it is in this case.
I don't know how much more difficult it is to run into a McDonalds to grab a burger than it is to run to the grocery store to pick up a frozen pizza or into the hardware to pick up a hammer. How can this woman live without a drive through at every retail establishment?
Incidentally, I wonder where her kids were when she consulted with the attorney? Perhaps she went through a legal drive through.
This looks like ambulance chasing to me.
Hey, where is Karen Tumeh? I wonder how is this case is going? She still on this case?? I actually won an ADA lawsuit in Federal Court, Bunjer vs Edwards.. I sued a MCD franchisee owner for discrimination, when their establishment was not allowing me to use the drive thru. As a Deaf patron, I used a note I wrote by paper/pen to make my order. My case I won paved the way, and is in the law books of jurisprudence! By ADA law, my case is used in other cases, since I have established precedence, Deaf people now can sue, if they are not allowed use the drive thru, or walk in using a paper and a pen to commiunicate making their order. All I wanted was the #1 off the menu for a Big Mac Combo, and they had the supersize me special, drink and fries for $2.99 plus tax. I wanted nothing else in America at that time!
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