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Customers: KFC Giveaway Clucked Up Our Lives

Posted Jun 17th 2009 6:29PM by TMZ Staff

KFCHell hath no fury like a chicken lover scorned -- as you'll see in this lawsuit filed by people who are pissed over KFC's free chicken giveaway.

James Asanuma just filed the suit on behalf of KFC fans everywhere, saying the chain's May giveaway was nothing short of a scam to deceive its customers into spending more dough.

The lawsuit, filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, says KFC promised everyone "2 pieces of grilled chicken, two individual sides and a biscuit" -- but the promotion, which was promoted on the "Oprah Winfrey Show," turned out to be so popular they couldn't meet the demand.

And that's when the biscuit hit the fan.

The suit says that because KFC couldn't dish out the food as promised, they were forced to give vouchers for free food in the future.

The suit says this "bait and switch" caused customers to incur "travel costs, paper and printing costs, postage, the money they spent on other food items at KFC on visits when they had intended to redeem the Coupon ... and the loss of the value of the promised Meal."

James is suing KFC, because he's hungry for a little payback.

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16. I completely agree,I bet Oprah dam sure got her free chicken

Posted at 7:03PM on Jun 17th 2009 by Free Chicken

17. balls

Posted at 4:54PM on Jun 19th 2009 by balls

18. Oprah was all over that chicken

Posted at 7:04PM on Jun 17th 2009 by Free Chicken

19. Ugh, this suit is absurd. However, Eric this is nothing like the McDonald's lawsuit - you clearly only know what comedians said about it and not the actual case which involved skin grafts of her "lady parts." That being said, the lawyer who filed this case and the people involved with the Miley case should be rounded up and sent before the Bar Association for misuse of the justice system and filing frivolous claims. Then, perhaps we can all get together and sue them for pissing the rest of the world off....seems fair.

Posted at 7:03PM on Jun 17th 2009 by Jess

20. MMMMMMMMMM GOOD!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 7:04PM on Jun 17th 2009 by Free Chicken

21. balls

Posted at 7:04PM on Jun 17th 2009 by balls

22. stupid.....just who has the money to hire a lawyer over something so trivial. Must be some big fat piggy upset she didn't get the biscuits snd gravy........probably is Oprah doing this.

Posted at 7:04PM on Jun 17th 2009 by basicsofseo.com

23. You shouldn't be eating food
from an establishment that is
cruel to animals anyway.
Look at the video on you tube
and if you have a heart you won't
eat there even for free!!!

Posted at 7:09PM on Jun 17th 2009 by Machelle

24. That will teach KFC to ever try and do something nice for the American people. Travel and paper expenses. Give me a break!!!!!!

Posted at 7:53PM on Jun 17th 2009 by WiddoMouse

25. Some people are just absolutely ridiculous and obviously have way too much time on their hands....I can NOT believe this story!!!!!

Posted at 7:12PM on Jun 17th 2009 by shannon

26. Ladies and Gentlemen:

Observe why our court systems can't litigate important matters in a more expeditious fashion. This is what we in the legal community refer to as "frivolous litigation."

I sincerely hope that the judge in this case not only throws out this lawsuit for being meritless, but I also hope he or she makes the Plaintiff in this case pay KFC's legal fees. Nowhere is it implied in a coupon for free anything that the coupon never expires. Everything has an expiration date and, in this case, KFC would quite possibly print a disclaimer stating that there are participating KFC locations that will honor the coupon while others do not participate and will not acknowledge the coupon. Each location buys and cooks so much food per day. They are not going to giveaway more food than they would sell. That's absurd.

What disgusts me most about this free giveaway is that the people who are truly hungry and can really use a free meal, some kindness and some humanity will be overlooked because of all of the people who took their lunch hour to stand in line to get something for free that they could've paid for.

Posted at 7:13PM on Jun 17th 2009 by Clerk of the Court

27. Some people are just absolutely ridiculous and obviously have way too much time on their hands.....I can NOT believe this story!!! You have got to be kidding me.....

Posted at 7:15PM on Jun 17th 2009 by shannon

28. This is what KFC gets for trying to do a nice thing.
A bunch of losers are angry because they didn't get der free chikn'.
These people are used to getting everything else for free, no doubt.
But you don't deny them der chickn'.
That's just not acceptable.

Posted at 7:18PM on Jun 17th 2009 by newname

29. this is why i dont care about terrorists killing americans. some of them deserve it

Posted at 7:20PM on Jun 17th 2009 by hehe

30. Typical Fat ass ugly American living the American dream "Gimee my free chicken to make me fatter or Ill sue you"

Posted at 7:21PM on Jun 17th 2009 by Jimmy

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