Pair sue KFC after failing to get free meal promoted by Oprah

A KFC employee told the chicken-seekers that they had met their free-meal quota for the day and suggested to Veronia Mora that she return the next morning. Mora informed him that "she, and her children, do not eat chicken for breakfast." (Chicago Tribune)

Comments

[stopeatingmysesamecake]

Only in America could you sue for something you didn't get for free, and probably get 50x the worth of the actual free item.

[pugperson]

typical, a well meaning gesture turns sour, yes kfc did not anticpate the deluge of respondents, i was one of the millions that got a free meal, but they are making a rain check with a soda available, so they did not get the meal when they wanted it, as for not eating chicken for breakfast, please, they dont open till around ten or ten thirty.. get a life people...

[joel]

More examples of how we have turned into a culture of entitlement.

[Torgo]

Amazing.

[KDP]

Two things come to mind:

1) The breakfast scene in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High"

2) This is obviously not a customer you want to return. I would have told them to eat excrement if they wanted something else for free.

[Phranqlin]

Get a grip, lady.

[LSMFT]

maybe Obama will intervene and get the chicken for them like he did for that fraud who got a free house to live in. would be a good photo op

[Openeyed]

I hope the ghost of col. Sanders haunts her for the rest of her pathetic life.

[midwest girl]

this is as much rediculus as the big deal with Letterman/Palin

[buddy]

why do so many people spell ridiculous with an "e"??

[Miss-Black]

I had chicken for breakfast today. What's the big deal?

[kevy]

Good question buddy. I've wondered the same...also definitely with an a where the last i should be.

[Sigh]

I don't agree with the lawsuit or anything. It does sound like a bit of a bait-and-switch to me. The more reasonable course of action would be to stop doing business with KFC if you feel so strongly about the changed terms of their promotion.

But, what did KFC think would happen? They did it on Oprah, who has millions of viewers. The people who showed up to get the chicken would be Oprah viewers. Those are people whose judgement is already suspect.

[Marijo Woods]

people why oh why is that lardass oprah promoting obesity in america. I guess misery loves company with a side of double mashed potatoes.

[pnwgal]

"KFC should have made more of an effort to accommodate people who had downloaded the coupons, the complaint said. Customers who missed out on the free meal spent money on travel, paper and printing to find out about the change, and then wasted more on postage for a mail-in rain check."

Sooo...these people probably spent 5-10 minutes finding and downloading the coupon (if they have a slow printer). The single piece of paper maybe cost a couple of pennies, and the ink maybe a quarter (cartridges are expensive). Then, depending on how far they were willing to drive for really bad chicken, maybe spent $5-10 on gas. Postage is 42 cents.

Yeah - that's completely worth suing over.

People really need to pull their heads out and realize the universe does not revolve around them and their pathetic need for free crappy chicken.

[JimmyVa]

I'll bet in the privacy of their own home, these ingrates "eat Chicken"!! Scumbags.

[Sisterblonde]

*palm to face*

[jojo]

Before arriving at the KFC, the lady's sister called to tell her about the mayor calling her nephew (the one that looks just like her) a fatso. You know, if you insult part of the family, you insult them all with family resemblences and such!

[LimeGreenLizard]

"Chicken Licken's got lickin' chicken"

What's that from?

[ellen]

He's an attorney for gosh sakes. Has no one considered the possibility ( indeed probability) that overturned trashcans are his native habitat?

[ellen]

The observant have probably noticed that that above comment belongs with 'city attorney sleeping in trashcans' story above. Blame it on computer jitters.

[Unclemeat]

Probably an illegal immigrant family on welfare and food stamps and everything else the scumbags can swindle taxpayers out of crying about not getting more for free.DEPORT THEM ALL AND THIS COUNTRY WOULD BE MUCH BETTER OFF ! !

[RockyMtnMac]

The court of RMM is now called to order.
I find in favor of the whiners who didn't get their chicken.. and award them one piece of chicken each. They are to pay court costs and lawyer fees for both sides. You win!
*bang of gavel
Case dismissed.

[bobdogg]

Oprah Antoinette, giving the poor more of what they really need--'free' cars, free fat laden fast food; why does this woman not do something of responsible good with her gajillions? She's publicly lauded as some kind of ultra philanthropic figure in the media (the very same vacuously celebrity-endorsing media she had a big hand in helping to create, BTW), but what does she really do? Supposedly she sponsors some program that either builds or rehabs homes for the elderly--but when my (white) elderly fixed income-and-no-other-assets mom looked into this program, she was informed that it was restricted to helping poor people 'of color'. Nice. Winfrey is a gilded moneybags racist, IMO, who spouts a populist line, but in reality has nothing but contempt for the working stiffs of America, as a stunt like this goes to demonstrate.

Totally off-point anti-Oprah rant, I know; but I just had to get that off my chest. The fact that this woman continues to be lauded as some kind of hero to (and by) poor folks who don't know any better, as well as the well-heeled types who certainly should know better, just amazes, mystifies, and disgusts me.

[armynurse]

I'm usually pretty ok with the fact that about 1% of our population is willing to do what I do, but it really p**ses me off when I see that my sacrifices enable asshats like this to continue doing what they do while I'm out here sweating my ass off in the desert and my family is at home wondering if/when they'll see me next.

#!$% &@#!! @$!# &%#!!

Ok, I feel better.

[outofsalt]

All this because someone wants something for nothing? Give me a break.

[ellen]

Frankly, whenever I see the name 'Oprah Winfrey' attached to anything, the first word that pops into my head is: fraud.

As in fraud chicken, I suppose. Snnnrrrkk.

[Sheila]

@armynurse: Thank you for your service. You're worth a million celebrities.

[BobF4]

"It says 100% Guaranteed, you moron!"

"Listen Mister, if you don't shut up I'm gonna kick 100% of your a*s!"

[55Chevy]

You are exactly right about big Winfrey. A fraud and a fake on top of being a racist. I hate the slobbering herds that follow the likes of her and Springer. Morons, one and all.

[MONKEY JERKm]

GO FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!

[sometimesilie]

ONLY in America are there people who will sue over not getting a free handout. Leeches like Veronia Mora are a cancer on our legal system- one of many, but cancer nonetheless. And that's coming from someone who thought that it would be a cold day in hell that saw him "defending" a corporation.