Girlclaims to suffer from PTSD and Tourette's Syndrome after price scanner pointed at her
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[url]http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10103/1050061-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml[/url]
[release]ERIE, Pa. -- An Erie County jury has been asked to decide whether a 12-year-old girl was burned and later developed psychological problems when a convenience store clerk allegedly aimed a hand-held price scanner at her face.
Dominica Juliano was 12 when she and her grandmother entered the Country Fair store in Erie in June 2004.
A clerk allegedly called the girl "grumpy" before flashing his hand-held bar code scanner over her face and telling her to smile.
Attorneys for Ms. Juliano and her guardian say the girl was sensitive to light and burned, and later developed post-traumatic stress and Tourette's syndrome.
An attorney for the store says the scanner uses a harmless LED light and that the child had serious health problems before the incident. The trial began Monday.[/release]
Sounds like the girl's story doesn't check out.
Bah, what an attention whore. I hope she gets [B]barred[/B] by the judicial [B]code[/B].
(I mean Ms. Juliano, dummy)
Six years ago? Prove it.
This explains me.
I've seen scanners do much worse things:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY-03vYYAjA[/media]
There's no way you could be that sensitive to light. It's just impossible.
I'd be pretty pissed too if someone told me how to act and ran a light over my face.
[QUOTE=Attorney]An attorney for the store says the scanner uses a [B]harmless LED light and that the child had serious health problems[/B] before the incident. The trial began Monday.[/QUOTE]
What.
"post-traumatic stress AND Tourette's syndrome"
Guess it was buy one get one free
[QUOTE=ffffff-;21343426]I'd be pretty pissed too if someone told me how to act and ran a light over my face.
What.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but would you sue them for a fuckload of money and claim it caused PTSD and Tourette's?
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21343452]Yeah, but would you sue them for a fuckload of money and claim it caused PTSD and Tourette's?[/QUOTE]
If I was a needy bitch, fortunatly I'm not.
We have one of those price scanners at work.
Be right back.
How does that work? I bet it was an phaser set to: post-traumatic stress and Tourette's syndrome mode.
Technically scanners don't emit anything, they do just that, scan, and the lights inside are LEDs. So they're trying to sue for what you find in everyday appliances.
:psyboom:
This sounds just as stupid as that Russian girl who said she had XRAY VISION. Dumb attention whores.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21343368]
Attorneys for Ms. Juliano and her guardian say the girl was sensitive to light and burned, and later developed post-traumatic stress and Tourette's syndrome.
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haha
What a poosy
Price check on ais-FUCK YOU
she's not the smartest pick of the bunch is she
[QUOTE=codenamecueball;21345960]she's not the smartest pick of the bunch is she[/QUOTE]
And judging by her apparent sensitivity to light, neither is she the brightest.
How is that any way traumatic.
Honestly, I think this is more than a little bit insulting to the people who DO have those. No one considers getting "scanned" a traumatic event, or at least they shouldn't. Going to war, getting seriously abused, and getting raped are all things more traumatic than getting scanned. I mean, for fuck's sake. I'm pretty damn sure tourette's is genetic, anyway.
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21343368][url]http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10103/1050061-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml[/url]
[release]ERIE, Pa. -- An Erie County jury has been asked to decide whether a 12-year-old girl was burned and later developed psychological problems when a convenience store clerk allegedly aimed a hand-held price scanner at her face.
Dominica Juliano was 12 when she and her grandmother entered the Country Fair store in Erie in June 2004.
A clerk allegedly called the girl "grumpy" before flashing his hand-held bar code scanner over her face and telling her to smile.
Attorneys for Ms. Juliano and her guardian say the girl was sensitive to light and burned, and later developed post-traumatic stress and Tourette's syndrome.
An attorney for the store says the scanner uses a harmless LED light and that the child had serious health problems before the incident. The trial began Monday.[/release]
Sounds like the girl's story doesn't check out.[/QUOTE]
Uh i operate a wireless price gun every day. The red scanner hits my hands all the time, it is almost impossible to burn yourself on these fucking things. All these things do is read a UPC number, it does mathematical calculations to get the whole item number. To read the code all it does is reflect light off of the UPC code, nothing else. It isn't going to burn you or hurt you. The only way i can possibly picture getting hurt by something like this is to point the light in to your eyes. Other then that this is just stupid.
I wonder what the sun'd do to her.
you cant suddenly "develop" tourettes and PTS because of some minor skin irritation
I'm not buying this one.
[QUOTE=MR-X;21346258]Uh i operate a wireless price gun every day. The red scanner hits my hands all the time, it is almost impossible to burn yourself on these fucking things. All these things do is read a UPC number, it does mathematical calculations to get the whole item number. To read the code all it does is reflect light off of the UPC code, nothing else. It isn't going to burn you or hurt you. The only way i can possibly picture getting hurt by something like this is to point the light in to your eyes. Other then that this is just stupid.[/QUOTE]
I think it IS impossible to burn yourself with a scanner, it's just normal light.
[QUOTE=Sparkwire;21346778]you cant suddenly "develop" tourettes and PTS because of some minor skin irritation[/QUOTE]
You can if you got good lawyers. :smug:
[QUOTE=MR-X;21346258] The only way i can possibly picture getting hurt by something like this is to point the light in to your eyes.[/QUOTE]
Or club her to death with it.
[QUOTE=MR-X;21346258]The only way i can possibly picture getting hurt by something like this is to point the light in to your eyes. Other then that this is just stupid.[/QUOTE]
And even then, it probably can't cause lasting damage. It's just an LED, like the one in optical mice. Not even a class 1 laser (which is also safe to look at under most circumstances).
[QUOTE=MR-X;21346258]Uh i operate a wireless price gun every day. The red scanner hits my hands all the time, it is almost impossible to burn yourself on these fucking things. All these things do is read a UPC number, it does mathematical calculations to get the whole item number. To read the code all it does is reflect light off of the UPC code, nothing else. It isn't going to burn you or hurt you. The only way i can possibly picture getting hurt by something like this is to point the light in to your eyes. Other then that this is just stupid.[/QUOTE]
I'am saddened that this girl never visited the shop I worked in. No normal lamps only led lamps.
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