Suing For A Tote Bag

A Los Angeles psychologist who was denied a tote bag during a Mother's Day giveaway at an Angel game is suing the baseball team, alleging sex and age discrimination.

Michael Cohn's class-action claim in Orange County Superior Court alleges that thousands of males and fans under 18 were "treated unequally" at a "Family Sunday" promotion last May and are entitled to $4,000 each in damages.

That's not from The Onion, it's from the Los Angeles Times.  It's absolutely true that it sucks to go to a baseball game where they're giving something away, but you don't get it because you're not old enough, no young enough, or the wrong gender.  But it sucks like it sucks to just miss the subway and have to wait for the next one.  Or like it sucks to have to use the bathroom in a restaurant and need to wait because someone's in there already.  It doesn't suck that much.  Just a little bit.

This guy's not a lawyer, but he found a lawyer: "'They claimed they didn't have any more bags, but my client said there was a mountain of bags stacked so high a show dog couldn't have jumped over them,' said Alfred Rava, Cohn's San Diego-based attorney."  This is why people hate lawyers.

What a waste of the court system. 

"By looking at the bag, you can see a 17-year-old male or female would be just as happy with it as an 18-year-old male or female," Rava said. "I don't know why the Angels and Bryman College had a seemingly contrived cutoff for this ageless bag."

Uh, maybe because it was mother's day.  And maybe because it was just a tote bag.

Comments

[Masculist is not a dirty word.]

Frankly, I’m just happy to see that somebody is *finally* standing up for the XY side of the gender equality equation. Personally, I’m just biding my time until I graduate from law school and get the credentials to take on one of the greatest gender inequities of our time: abortion. Think about it. Isn’t it only fair that when sex leads to an unwanted pregnancy, that the male should also get to have something living shoved into his internal cavities, smashed with a hammer and then vacuumed out his most private orifice, too? Sure, an aborted fetus is not as “sexy” as a free tote bag, but this is the 21st century. Equal pain for equal work, people.

[kmb]

saw a comic one time who thought it would only be fair if men showed signs of an impending addition to the family - say, their ears turned blue and stuck straight out from their heads.

[PG]

We're lucky that there was an age limit. Otherwise there'd be a politician claiming that the Angels were promoting young motherhood. They should have cut it off at 20 just so they wouldn't be in favor of teenage prengancy.

[lex icon]

He lost his case today.
http://lexicon.typepad.com/lexicon/2007/02/angels_baseball.html

[TD]

Can Angels fans countersue him for being an absolute idiotic fool? Go to the Dodgers asshole!