I can barely remember what I ate yesterday, so expecting someone to recall a donut they ate years ago seems like a bit of a stretch. And yet, an angry customer alleges that four years ago, they ate a donut—a bad donut, one that made them sick, even—and now they’re looking to sue the woman who served it to them. However, there’s a small problem. The donut shop they ordered from in New Jersey has been closed for years, and the owner has since moved to Florida.
“We’re confused and concerned,” the child of the former donut shop owner says on Reddit. Honestly, who wouldn’t be? Why in the world would anybody try to pursue legal action over food served to them almost half a decade ago? “How can they even prove the illness came specifically from her store’s food?” is another important question that needs to be answered. OP also asks how the lawsuit is supposed to even take place if it’s being filed in New Jersey, when their mom is in Florida.
These are all great questions, no doubt, but even before anyone needs to consider them, it would seem the accuser can’t do anything anyway, based on the top commenter’s understanding. “NJ has a 2-year statute of limitations for personal injury, so unless there is more to the story, I can’t see how this would be successful,” they explain. So the legal logistics alone seem stale, to say the very least.
Several others smelled that it was a ploy from the start, which is hard to disagree with. “This could be some kind of scam,” remarks a commenter. “Somebody is fishing for a payday,” agrees another. “How was she [even] ‘informed’?” wonders a third. Whatever the case, it does seem all very fishy, and that this so-called victim of the bad donut order won’t get their way.
Fortunately, OP does also confirm that their mother paid for insurance during the time the donut cafe was open. So, if this lawsuit does somehow proceed, many in the comment section argue that the insurance should cover it all. After all, the alleged food sickness incident occurred when she was still in business. Hopefully, though, it won’t come to that. Because suing someone over a sour donut you never reported, from a store that no longer exists, four years after the fact? Now that is nonsense.
