Man Addicted to Cable So He Sues His Provider | TigerFan.com

Mr. Peabody · Jan 9, 2004

This is so funny to read you have to wonder if it is true.

Cable TV made a West Bend man addicted to TV, caused his wife to be overweight and his kids to be lazy, he says.
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Timothy Dumouchel of West Bend wants $5,000 or three computers, and a lifetime supply of free Internet service from Charter Communications to settle what he says will be a small claims suit.

Dumouchel blames Charter for his TV addiction, his wife’s 50-pound weight gain and his children’s being “lazy channel surfers,” according to a Fond du Lac police report.
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According to the report, Dumouchel told Charter employees he plans to sue because his cable connection remained intact four years after he tried to get it canceled.

The result was that he and his family got free cable from August of 1999 to Dec. 23, 2003.

“I believe that the reason I smoke and drink every day and my wife is overweight is because we watched TV every day for the last four years,” Dumouchel stated in a written complaint against the company, included in a Fond du Lac police report.
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he said he put the family TV in the basement in 1999 after he had called to get cable disconnected, but soon thereafter, his wife had moved it back and hooked up the cable connection, and it still worked.

He stated he “made a deal” with her that “she could watch TV as long as the cable worked.”
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http://www.wisinfo.com/thereporter/news/archive/local_14044768.shtml

Bestbank Tiger · Jan 12, 2004

Timothy Dumouchel of West Bend wants $5,000 or three computers, and a lifetime supply of free Internet service from Charter Communications to settle what he says will be a small claims suit.

Dumouchel blames Charter for his TV addiction, his wife’s 50-pound weight gain and his children’s being “lazy channel surfers,” according to a Fond du Lac police report.

Yep, more of the same is the answer to his problem.

If this is real it's a Stella Award.

Mr. Peabody · Jan 12, 2004

F'ing couch potatoes.

G_MAN113 · Jan 13, 2004

I hope that the judge not only laughs this nonsense out of court, but also penalizes the guy in some way for filing a frivolous suit, and hits him with a bill for the 4 years of cable he stole on top of that...subject to criminal penalties.