This guy deserves NOTHING

Of all the ridiculous lawsuits I've heard of this one takes the cake.

But in 2001 Mr Mustapha noticed one whole fly and another half fly in an unopened bottle as he was loading it onto his cooler.

Ok, that's pretty gross. I don't think I would have been very happy either. However, I wouldn't have sued the company because of it. I would merely have called them, explained the situation and requested a new bottle for the cooler. Perhaps I would have called over whoever was around so they could partake in the whole 'ewww, that's gross' game. At the end of the day however, dead flies really aren't that serious. He didn't find one in his drink, after all.

But not Mr. Mustapha, no. Mr. Mustapha apparently suffered 'extreme depression' from this incident.

After this, he began to feel nauseous and depressed, and developed a phobia for water, only being able to take showers with his head down, so the water did not strike his face.
Justice John Brockenshire found in the original damages case in 2005 that Mr Mustapha suffered a "major depressive disorder".
In his ruling, he said: "He pictures flies walking on animal
faeces or rotten food and then being in his supposedly pure drinking water."

Give...me...a...break. Has this guy ever had a picnic outside on a hot sunny day? There are flies everywhere. People don't get nauseous and suddenly become afraid of food. They wave the flies off the food. Hell, I've tipped back a soda can only to find a bee crawling out instead of sweet sugary goodness. Freaked me out, sure. But I didn't suddenly become afraid of soda cans and have nightmares of bees pouring out of soda bottles.

I'm going to make a guess here: Mr. Mustapha either had a pre-existing mental imbalance or he was just trying to get rich quick. I'm going to go for the latter. Here was Mr. Mustapha's chance to make some money off an unfortunate incident in which no one really got hurt. I simply cannot buy that any reasonable person would have such a reaction to a fly in a water bottle. This man was just trying to take advantage of a minor situation and blew the whole thing out of proportion. Shame on him.

For the sake of argument, even if this incident did trigger depression in Mr. Mustapha I highly doubt that it was the intention of the water company to do so. If the depression was pre-existing, the company is still blameless. I still think that Mr. Mustapha saw an opportunity to sue and he jumped on it.

There are so many people out there who LOVE to sue. They sue for everything (which is why we have stupidly obvious warnings on everything). These people either feel they are somehow entitled or victimized or just plain greedy. Suing costs insurance companies a lot of money - premiums go up. So every time some dumb jackass sues over a dead fly in a bottle of water someone else pays the price. Way to go, jackass.

Waddah Mustapha had been awarded $341,775 in damages in 2005, but the
Supreme Court of Canada has now overturned that award.

What the hell were they thinking to reward him anything in the first place, let alone that much money? Thankfully it was overturned.

Mr. Mustapha - get over it. It was just a fly.

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