I don't know what's more amazing....
That this moron is actually doing this, or that I am not surprised by it...

Man says he’s addicted to cable; wants to sue Charter

By Lee Reinsch
the reporter lreinsch@fdlreporter.com

Cable TV made a West Bend man addicted to TV, caused his wife to be overweight and his kids to be lazy, he says.

And he’s threatening to sue the cable company.

Timothy Dumouchel of West Bend wants $5,000 or three computers, and a lifetime supply of free Internet service from Charter Communications to settle what he says will be a small claims suit.

Dumouchel blames Charter for his TV addiction, his wife’s 50-pound weight gain and his children’s being “lazy channel surfers,” according to a Fond du Lac police report.

Charter employees called police to the local office at 165 Knight’s Way the evening of Dec. 23 after Dumouchel showed up with a small claims complaint, reportedly intimidated an employee and made “low-level threats” to employees’ safety, according to a police report.

The report states Dumouchel gave an employee five minutes to get a supervisor to talk to him or their next contact would be “in the ocean with the sharks.”

According to the report, Dumouchel told Charter employees he plans to sue because his cable connection remained intact four years after he tried to get it canceled.

The result was that he and his family got free cable from August of 1999 to Dec. 23, 2003.

“I believe that the reason I smoke and drink every day and my wife is overweight is because we watched TV every day for the last four years,” Dumouchel stated in a written complaint against the company, included in a Fond du Lac police report.

“But the reason I am suing Charter is they did not let me make a decision as to what was best for myself and my family and (they have been) keeping cable (coming) into my home for four years after I asked them to turn it off.”

According to the police report, Dumouchel called Charter to stop his cable service in August of 1999 and was taken off the billing but not the cable service.

In a written statement, he said he put the family TV in the basement in 1999 after he had called to get cable disconnected, but soon thereafter, his wife had moved it back and hooked up the cable connection, and it still worked.

He stated he “made a deal” with her that “she could watch TV as long as the cable worked.”

He then went back to Charter and asked that they disconnect his service, which they reportedly never did.

He stated that he called Charter several times to get the service disconnected for good because he felt it was addictive, according to the report.

Charter’s director of government and public relations for eastern Wisconsin, John Miller, says he doesn’t take the threat of a lawsuit seriously.

“Even though we consider our services to be a very powerful entertainment product, I don’t think it’s reached a medical level yet where it could be proved to be addictive,” Miller said.

“In our society, any kind of legal action shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone,” he added.

Wisconsin Circuit Court records show no civil lawsuit papers filed in Dumouchel’s name.

 

Only in America, Kobiashi, or at least I think so.
Bill

 

I'll bet this shenanigans goes on in some of the Major European COuntries, but probably not to the extent that it does in this country.

We need to kill some judges and lawyers to get the message across that allowing this B.S. to continue is unacceptable.

 

I think that's a pretty important point of the story to consider. He hasn't actually filed suit. He just said that he did. He's wacko

It's actually a funny story. I'll bet this guy drives his neighbors nuts!

 

Just goes to show that this guy is one FAT LAZY bastard, hell he could have went outside and cut the damn cable himself.

If I owned the cable company I would have this moron come in and show him $5,000 in cash and when the morons eyes lit up like his wife’s does looking at Twinkies I would have dropped the bomb:

”Look you stupid moron, either you stop your nonsense at this very moment or I will take this money and a lot more and hire a team of lawyers to completely tie you up in courts for years and to take every thing you own away from you, your fat wife and your stupid lazy kids…”

Big companies need to start looking at these kinds of people who are complete morons with absolutely no personal responsibility and make an example out of them. This would be a good, solid and wise “investment” of their money…

 

Just because the cable is there does not mean that you have to actually turn it on. There was nobody there forcing him to watch it.

 

Yea but all he has to do is convince a jury, some americans actually belive it would be charters falt.....

 

If I was the cable company I would send him a bill for 4 years of unpaid service.

... wire cutters would take care of cable. And maybe he would do the world a favor and cut the wrong wire.

 

It's a free country and people are allowed to sue. No matter how stupid or frivilous the law suit may be.

But I see nothing wrong making it a law that who ever sues for something stupid or frivilious like this has to pay all of the court costs, including the lawyer for the defendant.

 

I guess the twinkies don't have anything to do with your fat a$$.

As far as smoking? Take that up with Philip Morris.

This guy deserves McDonalds coffee to be spilled in his lap.

And have his privates crushed on a toilet seat at Starbucks (another lawsuit in case anyone wonders about this)

 

people in this world go way too far..





All i can say is we live in a world will a bunch of IDIOTS!

 

Frivilous lawsuits are not a right guaranteed by the constitution. Granted, one does have the right to be as stupid as possible, even irresponsible if one should so choose, but when it infringes upon the rights of others, when it hinders the adminstration of justice, and when it abuses the system designed to serve the citizenry then it is not, and should not, be protected by those rights and freedoms that are ultimately subverted by such actions. Frivilous lawsuits such as these are nothing more than, and no different from, criminal acts. Yes...it's a free country, but criminal acts are not sanctioned and neither should this be.

 

Wait a minute, I'm from Fond du Lac, and I don't get free cable...

Course, my boss's kid works for Charter....