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OH. MY. GOD.
"In a related development, a St. Louis, MO, consumer has filed a lawsuit against the Coca-Cola Co. claiming that the My Coke Rewards program might prompt kids to drink so much soda that they could die or at the very least become obese, The Associated Press reported.
The woman, Julia Havey, a weight-loss instructor and author on diet books, filed the lawsuit in St. Louis Circuit Court asking Coca-Cola to change or drop the program. She is not seeking monetary damages.
Williamson said the lawsuit has no merit and that Havey is misinformed. He said that consumers can get points for buying low- and no-calorie beverages like Diet Coke, as well as Coke Zero, and that members can buy drinks for parties and their families, not just for themselves.
"The idea that the individual who enters the codes must also drink all of the beverages that those codes come from is [not correct], he said. "The formula that she works out assumes some things that are not based in the facts of the program."
Havey's attorney, Alvert Watkins, said that the lawsuit would also be dropped if a Coca-Cola executive let his child drink 152 soft drinks on TV, the AP reported."
"In a related development, a St. Louis, MO, consumer has filed a lawsuit against the Coca-Cola Co. claiming that the My Coke Rewards program might prompt kids to drink so much soda that they could die or at the very least become obese, The Associated Press reported.
The woman, Julia Havey, a weight-loss instructor and author on diet books, filed the lawsuit in St. Louis Circuit Court asking Coca-Cola to change or drop the program. She is not seeking monetary damages.
Williamson said the lawsuit has no merit and that Havey is misinformed. He said that consumers can get points for buying low- and no-calorie beverages like Diet Coke, as well as Coke Zero, and that members can buy drinks for parties and their families, not just for themselves.
"The idea that the individual who enters the codes must also drink all of the beverages that those codes come from is [not correct], he said. "The formula that she works out assumes some things that are not based in the facts of the program."
Havey's attorney, Alvert Watkins, said that the lawsuit would also be dropped if a Coca-Cola executive let his child drink 152 soft drinks on TV, the AP reported."
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Something tells me I shouldn't want to laugh at that, but I do!
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Drink so many sodas you die. Uh huh. If you do it all at once, you moron. Or maybe if you're diabetic.
Honestly, people...
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AND! It would actually be less dangerous to guzzle that much soda than it would be to drink that much water, since soda contains sodium. And I think - correct me if I'm wrong, it is before 10 am - one of the key elements in water poisoning is the imbalance of sodium and other chemicals in the brain.
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....
Wait, what?
That shattering sound you hear is my brain breaking into a thousand pieces.
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I'm kinda wondering where they came up with the number 152. At the most, if you're talking about 20-oz bottles, 152 drinks would get you 456 points. That's not even that many, considering how many points some of the prizes are. :/
Admittedly, I drink a lot of pop, but I also am the one who takes our recycling from the office (I put it out with my home recycling). So I've scored some free points that way! Like the Coke people said - nothing in the rules states that you have to drink it, or even buy it yourself!