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[devilof76]

Yoda's hut on ebay right now for $500 +shipping.

 

[FlyAndFight]

I thought I just drop this here

Entitled Hooters girl sues...

What hooters?...

 

[SilverStar17]

I thought I just drop this here

Well, I suppose nobody said you had to be intelligent to work at Hooters and win a beer sales contest.

 

[Creighton]

Good thing she wasnt promised a chance to partake in a large “peanut holder” contest. She’d really be bummed.

 

[anwe]

She was smart enough to win the lawsuit if I remember correctly.

 

[Wor-Gar]

She was smart enough to win the lawsuit if I remember correctly.

You must mean her lawyers. They settled - but she went back to the well again afterwards:


05/09/2002 - Updated 09:52 AM ET



Former Hooters waitress settles toy Yoda suit

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — A former waitress has settled her lawsuit against Hooters, the restaurant that gave her a toy Yoda doll instead of the Toyota she thought she had won.

Jodee Berry, 27, won a beer sales contest last May at the Panama City Beach Hooters. She believed she had won a new Toyota and happily was escorted to the restaurant's parking lot in a blindfold.

But when the blindfold was removed, she found she had won a new toy Yoda — the little green character from the Star Wars movies.

David Noll, her attorney, said Wednesday that he could not disclose the settlement's details, although he said Berry can now go to a local car dealership and "pick out whatever type of Toyota she wants."

After the stunt, Berry quit the restaurant and filed a lawsuit against Gulf Coast Wings, the restaurant's corporate owner, alleging breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation.

The restaurant's manager, Jared Blair, has said the whole contest was an April Fools' joke.

 

[KerotanFrog]

Lmao joke or not, she still got something out of it. Good on her.

 

[Jedha Patrol]

Yoda is in my truck right now....

 

[SilverStar17]

Lmao joke or not, she still got something out of it. Good on her.

There's nothing good about someone being rewarded for their own stupidity. People winning these type of lawsuits just encourages and engenders this type of behavior and mentality.

Of course the article never stated whether or not there was a banner or a flyer for the contest that specifically said a Toyota, or if it was only verbal and she interpreted it as "Toyota" as opposed to "toy Yoda", since obviously the two sound exactly the same. My hunch is the latter though, as generally, a female in particular likely would not immediately think a toy Yoda when they hear something that sounds like "Toyota".

Common sense tells me that if the restaurant was serious about it being a Toyota, they would be more specific in advertising what type of Toyota it was (model, year, sedan, truck, etc), as is often the case with any sort of sweepstakes that rewards a new car to the winner. Or you'd think someone would have at least asked what kind. It's difficult to fathom that there was nobody who wasn't the least bit skeptical, highly doubting that an employer would buy an employee an item that costs more than what they potentially pay the employee in a year's salary, just for winning a beer contest.

If there was nothing that specifically said it was a car, then I think this woman had no leg to stand on and was indeed rewarded for stupidity. She likely felt stupid because she genuinely thought she was getting a Toyota, and therefore, sued.

 

[QuiGonFishing]

I think I’m going to have to make this a point of rare disagreement with you SS.

The company extracted additional effort out of her by makeing a promise of a reward that they (the company) reasonably knew would be interpreted by their intelligence challenged staff to be a new car. They (the company) further demonstrated that their promise was specifically intended to be understood by their smarthood-deficited waitress as a car with the blind-fold parking lot charade.

If it had been something like a one hour trivia contest with a joke prize at the end, I’d be on board. But since it appears that the company was able to benefit directly from the extra effort generated (with intent) by a false promise over a period of weeks or months, judgement for the plaintiff...

 

[SilverStar17]

I forgot about the company leading her out to the parking lot blindfolded, so I would agree that does change the intent in the sense that it was their (the company) intent to mislead the empolyee(s) into thinking they were getting a car as a prize. She does have a legitimate argument in that case.

Though I still think anyone who actually believed that without being the least bit dubious, is indeed a bit naive.

 

[QuiGonFishing]

No argument there!

 

[Bustajesse]

Is it weird that I still like the look of the VCD Yoda much better than this?

 

[bmarz1000]

Is it weird that I still like the look of the VCD Yoda much better than this?

"Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder". So, no.

 

[matrix69]

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[Creighton]

Good pic bro.

 

[SilverStar17]

Great picture.

 

[FlyAndFight]

Best pic of Yoda yet.

 

[TaliBane]

Yeah nice pic. With harsher light and anything not directly from the front and HT Yoda really comes to life. I also find he looks better looking down a bit.

Most HT sculpts look better with harsh light, especially top light.

 

[Cocoboloboy]

"When 900 years old you are, miss a catnap you will not."



This is what happens when I set my photo booth up and leave it unattended for a few minutes.