Too Fat To Drive
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court has ruled that Mercedes must release a man from a car lease deal after a dispute over whether he was too heavy to drive the luxury vehicle, Bild newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Mercedes refused to release the insurance salesman from a lease agreement on his S-320 CDI model, arguing the multiple car breakdowns caused by his weight were insufficient grounds to break the deal.
But the Stuttgart court ruled in favour of the salesman, named only as Frank S., apparently on the grounds that the car should have been able to take his weight.
Frank S. was told that at 160 kg (352 pounds) he weighed twice as much as the average driver, Bild said.
That's it. I'm suing Speedo for not making a swimsuit I can leverage myself into without the seams breaking. Because, you know, its a company's responsibility to make sure their product fits the lifestyle of even their most unhealthy customers.
Seriously though, this is the sort of thing that sickens me. Nobody wants to take responsibility for their choices. If this guy wants to walk around weighing 352lbs then he's going to have to deal with the fact that his abnormal size is going to take special consideration when purchasing cars. Certainly Mercedes shouldn't be held responsible for the fact that he's too fat for his own car.
