Sue the boob
Posted on February 6, 2004
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It was an inevitability I suppose: a class action lawsuit over Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl performance:
It took almost three days, but the first lawsuit has been filed in connection with Janet Jackson’s breast. A Tennessee woman yesterday filed a proposed class action lawsuit “on behalf of all Americans” who watched the Super Bowl halftime show and were somehow injured by Miss Jackson’s adorned nipple.
Imagine to have a psyche so fragile as to be damaged by the fleeting glimpse of a covered breast.
Terri Carlin, a 47-year-old Knoxville bank employee, contends that Jackson’s exposure and other “sexually explicit conduct” during halftime festivities caused viewers to “suffer outrage, anger, embarrassment and serious injury.”
Oddly enough those are the same symptoms I felt upon learning that someone would actually consider such an inane lawsuit, save perhaps for any sense of having suffered “serious injury”. I wonder: perhaps all the readers of the Smoking Gun could have such a case against Ms. Carlin?
The power of a single nipple is truly a wonderous thing.