Wal-Mart Sued Over Evanescence CD Lyrics

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The complaint, filed Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court, seeks an order requiring Wal-Mart to either censor or remove the music from its Maryland stores. It also seeks damages of up to $74,500 for each of the thousands of people who bought the music at Wal-Marts in Maryland.

``I don't want any other families to get this, expecting it to be clean. It needs to be removed from the shelves to prevent other children from hearing it,'' said plaintiff Trevin Skeens of Brownsville.

Skeens said he and his wife, Melanie, let their daughter buy the music for her 13th birthday and were shocked when they played it in their car while driving home.

Wal-Mart, of Bentonville, Ark., has no immediate plans to pull the CDs from its shelves, spokesman Guy Whitcomb told The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail. He said the company will investigate the allegations. No hearing dates have been set.

[Pale_Rider]

1. Wonder if the CD case ...

... had a Parent's Advisory on it?



If so the complainants have allot of nerve of buying the CD for their daughter and then suing!

[IronLionZion]

2. it doesn't, that's the whole point

aren't lawsuits great!

[yardwork]

3. Snicker. The case has no merit of course

but it's kind of funny that this would happen to walmart of all places. They try so hard to keep "preversions" out of their store - except the really big perversions, like treating illegal aliens like slaves, forcing small businesses to go out bankrupt because of predatory pricing, hiring lots of part-time employees so that they don't have to give them any benefits, etc. etc.

[Ian David]

4. Don't forget: Walmart defended selling Protocols of the Elders of Zion

[supernova]

5. What the hell is wrong with Evanescence?

:shrug:

I don't get it.

[CarbonDate]

7. I don't know

I'll have to listen to it again and find out.

:wtf:

[gmoney]

6. prudery payback!

If WalMart didn't have this censorship policy in place, they wouldn't be getting sued over this... sweeeet irony.