5/22/2004: Little Miss Hooters

[Beestie]

Originally posted by wolf

That is one skanky looking waitress, even for Hooters ...

I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on TV, but unless the prize conditions were put in writing as "Toyota" instead of ToyYoda, her misunderstanding/misinterpretation should not have constituted damages.

Regarding the waitress' skankage quotient, I was thinking the same thing and wondered how she won the contest (selling the most beer) in the first place.

Regarding the legal problem, I have two guesses. One is that the manager was probably aware that the waitresses thought the prize was a car and did not correct the mis-impression and therefore took some responsibility for it. Guess two is the ever-present threat of a sympathetic jury and bad publicity. Never underestimate the power of a greedy lawyer and 12 really stupid people.