Judge Tosses Inmates' Suit Over Prison Chicken

Judge Refuses To Call Foul Or Fowl, Dismisses Lawsuit Over Prison Chicken Dinner
BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 13, 2009

(AP) A federal judge in Vermont has dismissed a lawsuit claiming a prison chicken dinner was too foul to eat. The suit against ConAgra Foods Inc. was filed by Christopher Butts and two other men who had been inmates in Vermont but were sent to a Kentucky prison because of Vermont overcrowding.

Butts _ who served four years for a fatal drunken-driving crash _ claimed that while he was in the Kentucky prison three years ago he bit into a piece of microwaved chicken bought at a prison store that contained pus and the animal's digestive tract.

Butts says he got sick and can no longer eat chicken.

U.S. District Judge William Sessions III in Burlington, Vt., ruled Monday that they failed to prove that the product was defective.

I say good. If this idiot wouldn't have been drinking and driving he wouldn't have been in prison in the first place. Also, I think 4 years for killing someone in a vehicular collision is a slap on the wrist. If I was the judge, I would tell that idiot that if the chicken had pus, then it would have had and odor due to the putrefaction; and the fact that he stuck it in his mouth with intent on suing for punitive damages displayed an attempt to defraud a food service company and a deliberate misuse of state and local government court room time and money.

I would have put him in prison again for perjuring himself. No pun intended...lol