An elderly couple were billed £200 for pay-per-view adult films they claim they never ordered

I tend to always give the underdog the benefit of the doubt in these cases.

Remember when a lady suffered third degree burns from coffee at a McDonalds drive through? Everybody made fun of her but she was right, she won in court, and McDonalds had to retrain staff and change how equipment was operated at every single location.

And she didn't even ask for the massive compensations she eventually got, she only asked McD to cover the medical expenses, as she had to spent a fair amount of time in a hospital because of the burned crotch she had.

Not unreasonable by a mile, but after that case, corporations have tried making pretty much all lawsuits against them seem completely ridiculous. I wonder why...

That said the dude in the photo does look guilty af.
- Third degree burned crotch too. It wasn’t just a little too hot and she got a little burn. It was extensive.
- That's how shitty they are, they wouldn't even pay the medical bills when they knew that their coffee was way too hot. They knew it was way too hot because their guidelines said to make it too hot to mask how bad it is.
Come on, don't sugarcoat it. She suffered third degree vagina burns and a fused labia.
That lady had ~~polyester pants melted deep into her skin.~~

Liebeck was wearing cotton sweatpants, which absorbed the coffee and held it against her skin, scalding her thighs, buttocks and groin.[

I doubt her settlement paid all the bills, especially after attorney fees

Edited because I was wrong.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants
  
  In the end it was apparently $640 000, so I honestly don't know whether it would've covered medical costs and attorneys fees in America.
She wasn't right but she did win in court.

She spilled on herself. Her own fault.
You'll never change my mind.

Idc about mcds. Stupid is stupid. Her action her consequences.
- You know nothing about what happened and you are objectively wrong.
- You were lied to by capitalists with willing and eager help from the news empires.
  
  https://www.ttla.com/?pg=McDonaldsCoffeeCaseFacts
  
  I'm sure that's the only time that ever happened.
- The coffee was hot enough to cause life threatening burns and there were many cases of complaints and damages across the nation until they changed their policy. Now they serve coffee at a temperature humans can consume, and the lid is always tightly secured. She wasn't even suing for money, the court awarded her money she didn't ask for.

There's no way of knowing what happened there.

But back in the mid to late 2000's we had a whole bunch of residential internet customers and every so often one would blow their traffic cap by a bunch and would ring up and say "Your billing system is wrong!".

Then whoever could be bothered in the office would do some modest analysis on their netflow data and come up with something like "18% of your traffic this month was redtube.com, 33% was pornhub.com and 9% was xhamster.com.

We never knew if whoever was on the phone was the raging porn addict or it was one of their associates. Either way they would say "Oh well, I guess we will never know then. Thanks for your help. Bye.". Followed by them quietly paying the bill.

You actually stored that?
- Current ISPs have to by law. Just incase you go on howtobeaterrorist.com and need to be stopped. It's not overstepping at all. Definitely not.
- ISPs still can track your online activity, it's up to them whether or not they will store it
- Yep, any time you have a traffic cap or bill for traffic you've got to have data to back up what you are billing for.
  
  More recently CDN's ( and widespread SSL adoption ) have made it a whole lot less obvious what sites the user is going to. I suspect that nice clearcut list of porn sites from 2007 would just look like some cloudflare, akamai and google these days.

That's the face of a man who thought she wouldn't take it this far

Also the face of a woman who thought he wouldn't take the lie so far.
- They both know each other knows, but at this point, throwing in the towel is going to hurt their pride too much.

This joke is old and tired. Stop making it.
That bloke looks like he doesn't even know HOW to order porn over the TV.

I honestly don't know of a bigger incentive driving people to learn tech, than porn.
- I learned because of videogames but that was also before puberty so...
He's been mastering this look to trick fools like you!
What joke?

ok I got this, just keep calm and give them your most disappointed look, I can do this.

Daily mail sadface

This reminds me of the film Cuff and Collars, from Arlen Video.

Adult films??? Oh my, how scandalous!!

It's Ron! Absolute classic!