Coca-Cola Apologizes for Offensive Bottle Cap

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

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Pardon their French? Coca-Cola recently issued an apology to a family after one member purchased a Vitaminwater with a bottle cap bearing an offensive message.

Blake Loates of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada told Metro Calgary she was shocked when she opened her beverage and read the words "YOU RETARD," written inside of the cap. The language was particularly painful to her and her family as one of Loates' younger sisters, Fiona, 11, has cerebral palsy and autism.

The cap inspired Loates' father, who lives in Tacoma, Wash., to issue a lengthy letter of complaint to Vitaminwater's parent company Coca-Cola.

"What would you do if you opened up your bottle of Vitamin Water and on the bottom of the lid it read, "YOU RETARD"?" Doug Loates wrote in his letter swearing off the beverage company for life. "Think about it. I bet you'd be pissed off if you had a Fiona in your life… Can you imagine if SHE had opened this bottle?"

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DarkJackal · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 6119 **Location:** A den~

I'd sue for emotional stress.

lol so why did they put "you retard" on a bottlecap? >.>.

Love · **Joined:** Nov 2007 **Posts:** 5336 **Location:**

Couse people suffer from arrogance and boredom, that being said that girl is probably too retarded to understand it and possibly can't even hold the cap.

XMoshe · **Posted:** Sat Sep 21, 2013 11:28 am

If I'd get a cap like that I would just laugh and lolwut at it...

That said, it's not normal they put a message like that on it ofcourse. I do wish him goodluck to swearing off coca cola and all their daughter companies.

Ganja · **Joined:** Sep 2009 **Posts:** 1494 **Location:**

He lives in Washington. His family should only be drinking Pepsi products anyways.

Toshiharu · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 4222 **Location:** Nowhere

you retard on a cap? what. to me that sounds like the american dream waiting to happen with a lawsuit.

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

Well, English word.... followed by a random French word.

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word “you” and the French word “retard,” which means to slow or delay.

ltsune · **Joined:** Mar 2008 **Posts:** 5751 **Location:**

What are the odds that exactly THAT family would have gotten that bottle-cap?
Most people would probably just have had a good laugh. I do understand why he wrote the letter, though. I would've done the same if I were in his situation.

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

ltsune wrote:

What are the odds that exactly THAT family would have gotten that bottle-cap?

One in a billion chance?

.curve · **Posted:** Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:30 pm

I feel like most people would laugh it off, but welcome to politically correct Earth where it's supposed to be sunshine and rainbows all the time.

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