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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Kucinich sues House cafeteria over dental damage from olive pit
2011-01-27
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich is demanding $150,000 for "permanent injuries" he suffered from biting an olive pit in a sandwich wrap he bought at a House of Representatives cafeteria.

He is suing Restaurant Associates, which operates the cafeteria in the Longworth Office Building, its parent company, Compass Group USA, and food suppliers Performance Food Group Co. and Foodbuy LLC.

The congressman says the cafeteria asserted that the sandwich had pitted olives, but after biting the pit he "sustained serious and permanent dental and oral injuries requiring multiple surgical and dental procedures, and has sustained other damages as well, including significant pain, suffering and loss of enjoyment."

Kucinich says he was injured by the sandwich on April 17, 2008.
Imagine the media frenzy that would be unleashed if Sarah Palin did this. SNL would probably devote their whole next episode year to chipped-tooth Sarah-the-ambulance-chaser skits. Chris "Tingles" Matthews' head would explode on the air.
Posted by:ryuge

#8  Correction, that is (D-bag), gorb. I bet he used his gov't provided health insurance for his dental work too.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2011-01-27 19:31  

#7  Perhaps His Unworldliness could represent the voters of Uranus.
Posted by: SteveS   2011-01-27 18:41  

#6  Rep. Kucinich is shopping for a new district; his current voters are going to be redistricted as a result of the recent census. He doesn't seem to be having much luck thus far.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-01-27 09:38  

#5  WHITE House. PIMF.
Posted by: no mo uro   2011-01-27 06:19  

#4  2008?

Well, you know who was in the Wuite House then. So you know whose fault this is.
Posted by: no mo uro   2011-01-27 06:19  

#3  Heh, 2008. Perhaps he was visiting the Kucinich home world and need the time to come back from orbit.
Posted by: SteveS   2011-01-27 02:38  

#2  This happened back in 2008, and he's only getting around to suing them NOW?

I mean, I know he was busy with his enormously successful campaign for Preznit back then, not to mention a couple very close re-election fights in quite possibly the dumbest Congressional district in Ohio, but he still waits nearly 3 years to file this?
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2011-01-27 02:20  

#1  The author forgot this: (D)
Posted by: gorb   2011-01-27 00:38  

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