Re: [A/S] Interesting info for the mouse thread.....

And corrosion from your battery terminals

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:04 AM, thomas cook <tomcookpsu@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> I guess I'm just really OLD - but doesn't anyone else on this list
> remember removing rust from the chrome on your car with Coke or Pepsi. As I
> recall, Coke worked faster, but either one would do a good job.
>
>
> http://www.tomsgreatadventure.blogspot.com
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> From: Steve Pfiffner <mad1@pfiffner-mail.com>
> To: AirstreamList@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 10:20 AM
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> Subject: [A/S] Interesting info for the mouse thread.....
>
> Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in
> his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense:
> their soda would have dissolved a dead mouse before the man could have
> found it. An Illinois man sued Pepsi in 2009 after he claims he "spat out
> the
> soda to reveal a dead mouse," the *Madison County Record*
> reports<
> http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AiVF7SO5ZcX0BIXf8jTJwuC1qHQA;_ylu=X3oDMTFqMDgxZXM0BG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzEEc2VjA01lZGlhQXJ0aWNsZUJvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTJwOWx0ODJrBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDN2M3MDUyYjEtZWU3MS0zZWU0LTliZTYtMjBiNzVjOGUwMzg5BHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=13toqnn0j/EXP=1326899762/**http%3A//www.madisonrecord.com/news/240607-pepsico-granted-more-time-to-plead-in-mouse-in-mountain-dew-case
> >.
> He claims he sent the mouse to
> Pepsi<
> http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=An_0N_4X3d8n_okTW7__0s61qHQA;_ylu=X3oDMTFqaWd2Ymg3BG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzIEc2VjA01lZGlhQXJ0aWNsZUJvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTJwOWx0ODJrBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDN2M3MDUyYjEtZWU3MS0zZWU0LTliZTYtMjBiNzVjOGUwMzg5BHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=13hgd21bf/EXP=1326899762/**http%3A//www.madisonrecord.com/news/218815-swig-of-mountain-dew-included-dead-mouse-suit-claims
> >,
>
> which then "destroyed" the remains after he allowed them to test it,
> according to his complaint. Most shudder-worthy, however, is that Pepsi's
> lawyers also found experts to testify, based on the state of the remains
> sent to them that, "the mouse would have dissolved in the soda had it been
> in the can from the time of its bottling until the day the plaintiff drank
> it," according to the *Record*. (It would have become a "jelly-like
>
> substance," according to Pepsi, adds
> LegalNewsline<
> http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AqaRTpI9oGzwZFqbekx84wi1qHQA;_ylu=X3oDMTFqaTNjbzlmBG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzMEc2VjA01lZGlhQXJ0aWNsZUJvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTJwOWx0ODJrBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDN2M3MDUyYjEtZWU3MS0zZWU0LTliZTYtMjBiNzVjOGUwMzg5BHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=0/SIG=13bk4n8mv/EXP=1326899762/**http%3A//www.legalnewsline.com/news/227856-mt.-dew-mouse-would-be-jelly-like-pepsi-argues
> >.)
>
> This seems like a winning-the-battle-while-surrendering-the-war kind of
> strategy that hinges on winning the argument that "our product is
> essentially a can of battery acid." The lawyers still appear to be
> lawyering behind the scenes but we cannot wait for this to come to trial
> (though we think a trial is about as likely as the chances of us "Doing the
> Dew" again).
>
> *The Atlantic Wire – Mon, Jan 2, 2012*
>
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