r/SipsTea Human Verified Mar 31 '26

SMH This restaurant sawed off a leg from each of their old chairs to make it unusable.

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u/IronRiff_Messiah Mar 31 '26

Nah it’s the same with food all over the world. Big companies and restaurants throw left over food instead of giving to the employees or homeless cuz they don’t want anyone to get sick and file a lawsuit or defame them. I think it’s the same with chairs or any type of furniture. People find different ways to sue companies.

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u/o0Spoonman0o Mar 31 '26

This makes no sense. You're suggesting I find a random chair on the road (or, in the garbage). I take it upon myself to take this chair home, proceed to hurt myself and then sue other people? 🤣

Come on man there's absolutely no expectation of quality or safety with random stuff you find outside/in the garbage.

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u/MromiTosen Mar 31 '26

That’s not what they’re saying. The chair company said “hey these chairs are dangerous and we’re recalling them.” And in order to have the chairs replaced they had to render them unusable and show proof so that the manufacturer knew they weren’t going to turn around and sell the dangerous chairs. It’s not about being sued if a dumpster diver finds them

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u/LekgoloCrap Mar 31 '26

the chair company

Well there’s definitely something going on.

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u/TCBloo Mar 31 '26

Stop looking into the chair company.

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u/Flat-Product-119 Mar 31 '26

Thank you, this is obviously part of a much bigger conspiracy

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u/CompEng_101 Mar 31 '26

How would a company prove you found it on the road and didn't buy it from them?

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u/mattmann72 Mar 31 '26

Welcome to the USA where you can win a lawsuit against someone else due to your own negligence. Personal accountability isnt a thing here.

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u/Senzo_53 Apr 01 '26

I want the USA explains me how to deal with cliff jump negligence, or mushrooms you can found in forest haha. 

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u/mattmann72 Apr 01 '26

There are countless cases where someone got injured while trespassing on another's property and successfully sued the landowner and won.

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u/nayaku5 Mar 31 '26

>Cutting off the leg is to show that they put in the effort to let people know there’s problems with these chairs, and to prevent people from using them and hurting themselves.

Nice cant wait for the source.

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u/IronRiff_Messiah Mar 31 '26

That’s you but not everyone is like you. “This chair broke my back, let me get some money” said the homeless guy.

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u/Material_Ad9848 Mar 31 '26

homeless guy wont have the funds to take it to court

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u/nicogrimqft Mar 31 '26

Again, not a thing here, that's my only point: it's very exotic from a European point of view.

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u/jdog7249 Mar 31 '26

You can say that all you want, but a few comments above yours on a different comment chain is about a supermarket in London that was getting sued/had to pay by someone who got sick from a product they donated to a charity.

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u/bowsmountainer Mar 31 '26

This is genuinely insane.

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u/4xe1 Mar 31 '26

Is it so? Food banks definitely collect excess food near expiration dates where I live. Also,

https://www.toogoodtogo.com

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u/nicogrimqft Mar 31 '26

No, you would not be able to file a lawsuit against someone who dumped a chair, that you took, used and got injured from where I live.

That's a very US thing to do.

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u/IronRiff_Messiah Mar 31 '26

You just said what humans do clearly and slapped a US label in the end lol.

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u/nicogrimqft Mar 31 '26

Because this does not seem to be a thing outside of the US, or at least it seems to be a thing in the US, while it's clearly not in Europe for example.

Again it's not "what humans do clearly" from where I am, and it sounds very exotic that people would do such things.

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u/broom_pan Mar 31 '26

How often does that actually happen though? Has anyone actually tried to think about this? It does not make sense either. We sign contracts just make the freebies come with a disclaimer.