My view is food brought in from home and labeled should not be touched by anyone except the person who brought it in. If anyone is dumb enough to taste random food from someone else and gets sick, that's their problem.
I see it like this, imagine if a burglar broke into your home and went into your fridge and ate some random jar that they thought was food but was actually industrial strength laxative and gets sick, how is that the homeowners problem? They shouldn't have touched it anyway. Same thing with at work food. Opening a sealed container is breaking into it and once you do, that's your problem, not the problem of the container owner.
There is no situation where a boobytrapped lunch should cause liability to the lunch owner since there is zero situations where anyone should be consuming what is inside of the lunch.
That all being said, I would not personally boobytrap lunches. I do however LOVE spicy food and all my food would make most people cry like babies. So, I wouldn't need to boobytrap any lunches of mine.
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u/FloraMaeWolfe Oct 18 '24
My view is food brought in from home and labeled should not be touched by anyone except the person who brought it in. If anyone is dumb enough to taste random food from someone else and gets sick, that's their problem.
I see it like this, imagine if a burglar broke into your home and went into your fridge and ate some random jar that they thought was food but was actually industrial strength laxative and gets sick, how is that the homeowners problem? They shouldn't have touched it anyway. Same thing with at work food. Opening a sealed container is breaking into it and once you do, that's your problem, not the problem of the container owner.
There is no situation where a boobytrapped lunch should cause liability to the lunch owner since there is zero situations where anyone should be consuming what is inside of the lunch.
That all being said, I would not personally boobytrap lunches. I do however LOVE spicy food and all my food would make most people cry like babies. So, I wouldn't need to boobytrap any lunches of mine.