This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays the court of appeal made it clear COVID-19 is in fact not a conspiracy theory, then we hear about a lawsuit against Burger King and their false advertising of the Whopper. Then we end in Florida where a man decided on the most extra and illegal way to ask his neighbour to turn off his leaf blower.
Follow the jump to read more about this week’s weirdest and wackiest legal cases from around the globe!
COVID-19 is not a Conspiracy
After her case suing several domestic and international governments on the ground that COVID-19 was a conspiracy was dismissed by a motion judge, a woman tried to bring the case to the Ontario Court of Appeal.
Unfortunately for her, the motion judge’s decision was upheld. And not only was it upheld; the Court of Appeal even said the reasoning’s the motion judge gave made this one of the clearest cases.
The woman herself sought billions of dollars in her lawsuit, claiming “COVID-19 was a multi-lateral global conspiracy to, among others, promote sterilization programs and manipulate the human genome.”
For obvious reasons, the lawsuit was dismissed in both courts. Some respondents listed in her lawsuit included Pope Francis, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, to name a few.
Yikes.
Burgers are smaller than they appear
In an interesting kind of lawsuit, you don’t see every day, fast-food giant Burger King is being sued by four customers for false advertising.
What exactly are they falsely advertising you may ask? The look of their burgers, and to be exact, the size.
Apparently, Burger King prides itself on its larger than competitor’s burger sizes, however, clients have noticed that while they may advertise this to be the case, it certainly is not.
The argument is that had they known the burgers were going to be so small, they wouldn’t have spent their money buying them. The lawsuit also states that this deceptive practice is financially damaging to specifically low-income families.
They hope that this lawsuit will put an end to deceptive advertising.
Was the gun really necessary?
In what appears to be the most dramatic way to ask your neighbour to keep it down early in the morning, a man in Florida went outside, shot his gun into the air 7 times and then threaten to shoot his neighbour and his dog if he didn’t stop his leaf blower.
Yes, you read that right. Where a simple, “Hey buddy, it’s 7 am can you wait a bit to do that” would have sufficed, the man decided to come out guns a blazing and threaten his neighbour instead.
The neighbour immediately called the police and when they arrived, they noticed the man appeared to be intoxicated and was wearing a robe.
He was arrested for aggravated assault, a felony, and discharging a firearm in public, a misdemeanour.
Perhaps a bad case of a hangover caused such an overreaction?
