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An elderly couple were billed £200 for pay-per-view adult films they claim they never ordered
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I tend to always give the underdog the benefit of the doubt in these cases.
Remember when a lady suffered third degree burns from coffee at a McDonalds drive through? Everybody made fun of her but she was right, she won in court, and McDonalds had to retrain staff and change how equipment was operated at every single location.
That lady had ~~polyester pants melted deep into her skin.~~
I doubt her settlement paid all the bills, especially after attorney fees
Edited because I was wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants
In the end it was apparently $640 000, so I honestly don't know whether it would've covered medical costs and attorneys fees in America.
It was in the 90s. It was bad then but not nearly as bad as it is now.
640k was worth a lot more.
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”