SaligoBay Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 I've just read this shocking tale:Three pensioners were in intensive care in a Grenoble hospital yesterday after ordering a glass each of a popular local liqueur, génépi, and being mistakenly served caustic soda. The three, a man of 69, his wife, 68, and her 94-year-old mother, were still in a critical condition after drinking the highly corrosive and toxic cleaning fluid on the terrace of a restaurant in the mountain resort of Deux Alpes on Wednesday night, a spokesman for the gendarmerie said.What effect do you think this will have on house prices on France? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted July 24, 2005 Share Posted July 24, 2005 Probably much the same as in England some 35-40 years ago when innocent members of the public ordered beer in pubs, but were served with that equally corrosive and unpleasant substance popularly known as keg bitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 I know that chartreuse and genepi are awful, but surely they aren't that bad that someone couldn't tell. Poor old folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Avery Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Could not happen in the UK?? Well, in fact a similar case forms the basis for one of the most famous cases in English law "Donoghue v Stevenson" This case is the case law used for taking reasonable care not to hurt one's "neighbour"The gist of it wasMiss Donoghue, sought to recover damages from the respondent, who was a manufacturer of aerated waters, for injuries she suffered as a result of consuming part of the contents of a bottle of ginger-beer which had been manufactured by the respondent, and which contained the decomposed remains of a snail. The defence was that the bottle was made of dark opaque glass and that the appellant had no reason to suspect that it contained anything but pure ginger-beer. Some of the ginger-beer was put into a tumbler, and the appellant drank some of the contents of the tumbler, then her friend poured the remainder of the contents of the bottle into the tumbler when a snail, which was in a state of decomposition, floated out of the bottle. So what you having monsieur? Decomposed snail or caustic soda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Yeah but, a friend here makes her own rocket fuel and she puts a snake in if she can get one. Would the snake of done any harm if it had been in a high alcahol drink rather than just a sugary one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Didn’t one of the major soft drink manufacturers try something along the same lines in the UK several years ago ? Something about mineral water that was really tap water but they put in some “additives” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted July 25, 2005 Author Share Posted July 25, 2005 This case is the case law used for taking reasonable care not to hurt one's "neighbour"LOL, they're STILL using the Paisley Snail? What a laugh, I learned about that in law over 20 years ago. I thought I'd better refresh my memory before making a fool of myself (again), so here's the Wikipedia entry for it. Was there ever a snail at all? If there was, could it have been a slug? It's almost as exciting as the mystery of the Marie Celeste! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoghue_v._StevensonThere's even a video of it!!! http://www.thepaisleysnail.com/testimonials.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo53 Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 Les Deux Alpes? Doesn't surprise me. It was there that I bought the worst hot dog I have ever, ever seen/tasted in my life. The sausage appeared to be one of those 'knack' things, which are pretty artificial in the first place, but on the inside bore absolutely no resemblance to meat whatsoever. Some sort of mechanically recovered slurry; they hadn't even bothered to colour it pink. Beurk! My children, to their credit, refused to eat the thing. Perhaps the lethal liquer was served in the same establishment. (Oh dear, I know it's not at all a funny story, the poor people. Really scary in fact.)Jo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furry Knickers Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 [quote]Les Deux Alpes? Doesn't surprise me. It was there that I bought the worst hot dog I have ever, ever seen/tasted in my life. The sausage appeared to be one of those 'knack' things, which are pretty art...[/quote]A Lady I am mingling with, had one of those things near Saint Cergu in the Alps, she became voilently ill after eating it, and she really has never recovered . She is still losing weight now, and has been since eating the terrible thing. Her mother thinks she may now have developed bullmania. I think they are made up of the left overs of various bits of animals ears and noses and stuff like that. Animals should be loved and not eaten! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mpprh Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 [quote]Les Deux Alpes? Doesn't surprise me. It was there that I bought the worst hot dog I have ever, ever seen/tasted in my life. The sausage appeared to be one of those 'knack' things, which are pretty art...[/quote]Hmm.....Which part of the dog did you get ? Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 'Current girlfriend'! Is that like 'the present Mrs. Wogan'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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