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Guy Wins Mother’s Day Discrimination Suit
So you thought Mother’s Day was just for people who were actually, well, mothers? Not according to this guy: Alfred Rava sued the Oakland A’s baseball franchise for discrimination because they wouldn’t give him a plaid reversible bucket hat as part of their Mother’s Day promotion.
No, Rava isn’t gay and trying to prove guys could be mothers too. He’s just a boneheaded lawyer who wanted his $20,000 fee for representing “the masses” in a class action suit.
Typical. This is actually Rava’s second attempt to blow the lid off free lids for moms. His first, a suit against the Angels of Anaheim for giving women over eighteen tote bags as part of a Mother’s Day celebration, was thrown out by a judge who said the set-up of the giveaway was “reasonable under the circumstances.” Those being limiting a Mother’s Day gift to people who could actually MOTHER.
He ruined it for us anyway. The Angels have opted to stop doing male or female specific giveaways, so the number of “freebies” will be spread out to the first X number of fans rather then the first X number of female fans for Mother’s Day, the first X number of male fans for Father’s Day.
And the A’s have to actually pay up, a total of $250,000 to be spread in $100 increments to all men “denied” their rights to a free plaid reversible hat who can prove they were there. And, of course, Rava walks away with a cool $20,000 for his antics work.
Is there anyone else who is actually insulted by the notion of giving moms a gift on Mother’s Day? Maybe we young moms (and dads) should sue the ballparks for Old Timers’ Day . . . and demand we get a senior citizen discount. After all, Major League Baseball is being agest.
Lest you think I jest, here’s what’s next for Rava: he’s arguing that the new ruling, handing out X number of pink tote bags on Mother’s Day THIS year to both men and women was discriminatory toward people seventeen and younger:
“”By looking at the bag, you can see a 17-year-old male or female would be just as happy with it as an 18-year-old male or female,” he said.”
What about a teenage girl who hates pink?
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Manjari commented on Jun 24 09 at 5:49 pmHow stupid!
Trey commented on Jun 24 09 at 6:03 pmAnd this is why we have stupid laws, high fees, and people doing less (to protect themselves) in the world.
Cali Mom commented on Jun 24 09 at 6:58 pmThis really is so incredibly stupid. Across the bay in San Francisco, the Giants had an event for Father’s Day where 68 fathers/kids were chosen to play catch on the field before the game. Although I am a bigger baseball fan than my husband, I would never dream of suing (or even getting upset at) the Giants because they did not lets moms into this contest. It was Father’s Day, after all!!!
I truly believe that stupid law suits are really hurting our country. (Sorry to get off the subject, but we wonder why it is so hard to get affordable health care in the US, when a huge reason is the number of law suits doctors have to deal with here, that they just don’t have to deal with in Europe.)
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